AvengeMedia / AvengeMedia/DankMaterialShell

Multi Monitor Configuration Issue

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Description

### Compositor

Niri

### Distribution

Fedora

### If Other, please specify

_No response_

### Select your Installation Method

DankInstaller

### Was this your original Installation method?

Yes

### If no, specify

_No response_

### dms doctor -vC

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## DMS Doctor Report

**System**
- [ok] Operating System: Fedora Linux 44 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)
- ID: fedora, Version: 44, Arch: amd64
- [ok] Architecture: amd64
- [ok] Display Server: Wayland
- WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1

**Versions**
- [ok] DMS CLI: dms (git) v1.5-3754
- /usr/bin/dms
- [ok] Quickshell: Quickshell 0.3.0 (revision 4b4fca3224ab977dc515ac0bb78d00b3dfa71e00, distributed by Fedora COPR (avengemedia/quickshell))
- /usr/bin/qs
- [ok] DMS Shell: v1.5-beta
- /usr/share/quickshell/dms

**Installation**
- [ok] DMS Configuration: Found
- /usr/share/quickshell/dms
- [ok] shell.qml: Present
- /usr/share/quickshell/dms/shell.qml
- [info] Install Type: System package
- /usr/share/quickshell/dms

**Compositor**
- [ok] niri: 26.04 (git)
- /usr/bin/niri
- [info] Active: niri
- [ok] Background Blur: Supported
- Compositor supports ext-background-effect-v1

**Quickshell Features**
- [ok] Polkit: Available
- Authentication prompts
- [ok] IdleMonitor: Available
- Idle detection
- [ok] IdleInhibitor: Available
- Prevent idle/sleep
- [ok] ShortcutInhibitor: Available
- Allow shortcut management (niri)
- [ok] BackgroundBlur: Available
- Background blur API support in Quickshell

**Optional Features**
- [ok] accountsservice: Available
- User accounts
- [ok] power-profiles-daemon: Available
- Power profile management
- [ok] logind: Available
- Session management
- [ok] cups-pk-helper: Available
- Printer management
- [ok] I2C/DDC: 1 monitor(s) detected
- External monitor brightness control
- [ok] qt6-imageformats: Installed (5 formats)
- Formats: WebP, TIFF, GIF, JP2, ICNS (/usr/lib64/qt6/plugins/imageformats)
- [ok] kimageformats: Installed (4 formats)
- Formats: AVIF, HEIF, JXL, EXR (/usr/lib64/qt6/plugins/imageformats)
- [ok] Terminal: kitty
- [ok] Network: NetworkManager
- NetworkManager present. Using NM API.
- [ok] matugen: Installed
- Dynamic theming
- [ok] dgop: Installed
- System monitoring
- [ok] cava: Installed
- Audio visualizer
- [info] khal: Not installed
- Calendar events
- [ok] danksearch: Installed
- File search
- [ok] fprintd: Installed
- Fingerprint auth

**Config Files**
- [ok] settings.json: Present
- /home/JD/.config/DankMaterialShell/settings.json
- [ok] clsettings.json: Present
- /home/JD/.config/DankMaterialShell/clsettings.json
- [ok] plugin_settings.json: Present
- /home/JD/.config/DankMaterialShell/plugin_settings.json
- [ok] session.json: Present
- /home/JD/.local/state/DankMaterialShell/session.json
- [ok] dms-colors.json: Present
- /home/JD/.cache/DankMaterialShell/dms-colors.json

**Services**
- [ok] dms.service: enabled, active
- [ok] greetd: enabled

**Environment**
- [info] QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME: kde
- [info] QS_ICON_THEME: Not set

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**Summary:** 0 error(s), 0 warning(s), 36 ok

### Description

When DMS Is Restarted it loses Placement of Secondary Monitor.

### Expected Behavior

It Should not forgot / override display placement.

### Steps to Reproduce

1. Place Secondary Monitor On Top Of Primary Monitor.
2. Restart The DMS.

### Error Messages/Logs

_No response_

### Screenshots/Recordings

_No response_

Contributor guide

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Research direction

Reproduce the issue by placing the secondary monitor above the primary, restarting DMS, and checking whether the placement changes. Inspect the mentioned settings.json and session.json files to determine where display placement is persisted; done means the placement remains unchanged after a DMS restart.

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Assessment

Tech stack
linux
Domain
desktop, operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
48/100

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