#linux mint keeps opening software on my other display and not the one I set as primary

1 messages · Page 1 of 1 (latest)

mortal panther
#

any help appreciated

regal hornet
#

under settings -> windows -> behavior do you have bring windows which require attention to the current workspace or location of newly opened windows set to cursor for example?

mortal panther
#

I also have another question about epic games

regal hornet
#

what is it?

mortal panther
# 
LogSelfUpdateService: Error: InstalledManifestWithDataFuture was not valid in HandleLauncherManifestLoaded.
LogInit: Warning: LaunchNonElevatedProcess: No desktop shell is present.
LaunchNonElevatedProcess: No desktop shell is present.
Slate User Destroyed.  User Index 0, Is Virtual User: 0
Monitored process exited.
Initial process has exited (return code: 0)
Exit with return code 0

this is the error I get in lutrius

#

it doesn't start at all I think it has something to do with the file path

#

but I can't figure out what

regal hornet
#

I'm presuming this is windows software

mortal panther
#

I'm using lutrius and wine

regal hornet
#

are you using wine, lutris, proton etc

mortal panther
#

this is the logs from lutrius

regal hornet
#

no desktop shell seems to be the source error lets see what a bit of lookup on that looks like

mortal panther
#

this work?

regal hornet
#

I've not tried it myself

mortal panther
#

hmm

regal hornet
#

Think it uses proton under the hood which is basically just wine

mortal panther
#

should I try proton on lutrius maybe?

#

I googled it and it said it's a problem with accessing the directory

#

but I can't figure out why

regal hornet
#

doesn't appear to be what the error says

mortal panther
#

want the full log?

regal hornet
#

sure

mortal panther
mortal panther
#

it says a lot of just failing to access files

regal hornet
#

yep I see that now

#

how did you install lutris?

#

if via flatpak its important that its permissions allow you to access the location

#

looks like it has pretty expansive access so less likely to be an issue but worth checking

mortal panther
regal hornet
#

software manager has system packages and flatpaks

#

Did you manually install epic games launcher in linux or do you have an existing windows install you are trying to use for both?

#

and what path is it located at

mortal panther
#

and on my hdd

regal hornet
#

to somewhere in /home/yourname ?

mortal panther
#

/media/dex/HDD1

regal hornet
#

are we sure that that is mounted as you with write permission?

mortal panther
regal hornet
#

that unfortunately doesn't show any info about permissions

#

in your file manager you can right click on it and select properties

#

it will tell you which user and group it is owned by and who has what permissions

mortal panther
#

ahh so I should turn on folder access?

regal hornet
#

is that screeny from the disks app or the file manager

mortal panther
#

and such or what

mortal panther
regal hornet
#

why is it set to none?

mortal panther
#

It was just set up that way

#

I had to manually mount it and such because it wasn't even showing up because of my sata settings

regal hornet
#

oh nm I misread the tiny screenshot and didn't expand it

#

first is permission for YOU next for your group which is again just you basically then others

#

ok so its weird that it doesn't have the same permission for your user and group

mortal panther
#

so how should I set this up

mortal panther
regal hornet
#

it actually shouldn't hurt anything your user has privileges

mortal panther
regal hornet
#

and lutris flatpak has permission to access media

#

so it really shouldn't be a problem

#

you can try the system package version just in case

#

just remove any flatpak version and add that if you want to test

#

otherwise heroic launcher is also an option

mortal panther
#

alright

mortal panther
#

@regal hornet

regal hornet
#

did you remove the other version of lutris if any?

mortal panther
#

ill remove wine too

regal hornet
#

no need

mortal panther
#

okay

regal hornet
#

that actually seemed to say you don't actually have wine

#

eg which wine in a terminal should return something like /usr/bin/wine

mortal panther
#

why is my wine not working

#

wait

#

maybe it's working for once?

regal hornet
#

honestly I just use steam exclusively

#

seems like heroic might be easier than making lutris + epic work

mortal panther
#

nope

#

yeah okay

mortal panther
regal hornet
#

no

mortal panther
#

okay

#

I'm going to try heroic and let you know how it goes

regal hornet
#

I use feh to write images to the root window and wrote my own wrapper script to show pick search and download wallpapers

mortal panther
#

I understand pretty much none of those words

regal hornet
#

you might consider nitrogen

#

live wallpapers aren't that great on Linux however

mortal panther
mortal panther
#

it's still not fixed

regal hornet
#

does it not put windows where the cursor is?

#

notably for certain long starting things it may actually put it where the cursor WAS when you started it

mortal panther
regal hornet
#

please describe in detail your setting and what is happening and what should be happening

mortal panther
#

and my second monitor for some reason

regal hornet
#

is it the case that the secondary monitor that isn't primary has the cursor?

#

basically opening on the primary monitor isn't an available option for that

regal hornet
#

however keeping it aligned with present cursor is going to result in in mostly being primary if you are mostly on the primary monitor