External prompt on wrong monitor

[videosmith]

When arranging the monitor order in Raspberry Pi 4 (latest updates) so that monitor 2 is to the left of monitor 1 with the same settings for external monitor prompting as the default arrangement of monitor 1 on the left, the external prompt window apparently opens in the same monitor (1) as the in-line window (see pics).

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[Cuperino]

Imaginary Teleprompter is always suppose to place the External Prompter at the first monitor in which the editor is not placed at. This sounds like bug. It may be platform specific. I'll test this week and see if I can replicate.

Are you using the Wayland display server by any chance, or are you using Xorg, Raspberry Pi OS' default display server?
If you're using Wayland, the bug may be related to that.

[videosmith]

I believe Wayland since I use KDE Plasma instead of Gnome.

[Cuperino]

Hmm... Both Gnome and KDE Plasma have decent support for Wayland at this point... Could you run these commands to confirm that the display server is Wayland?

This command gets you the ID of the current user session. Copy the first of the numbers it returns.
loginctl

This command returns whether the session is X11 based or Wayland. Replace SESSION_ID with the number copied from the previous program's output:
loginctl show-session <SESSION_ID> -p Type

[videosmith]

[videosmith]

Perhaps I was mistaken.

[Cuperino]

You were but that is a good thing because this increases the chances you've found a bug in Imaginary Teleprompter.

[Cuperino]

I confirm, you've found a bug @videosmith.

[Cuperino]

I'll wait for @va2ron1 to publish his changes before tackling this bug, to avoid duplicating efforts.

[marga-personal]

Hi! I'm facing this issue myself. Any hopes of getting it fixed?

[Cuperino]

Hi @margamanterola, Thank you for writing. I apologize, I had forgotten about this bug... va2ron1 did eventually publish his changes, but there's about a month of his work that needs polish before it can be incorporated. I've been postponing this work while fixing bugs and adding internationalization to QPrompt teleprompter app, which I'm expecting to release an update early this summer.

I could try to ship Imaginary Teleprompter 4 in tandem with QPrompt 1.1. While I haven't yet tested muti-screen support in v4.0, this bug should still be present because 4.0 is based off 2.x, with updated libraries and new customization options.

If anyone were willing to take a look at the code and attempt to fix this or any other bug, v4.0 is the branch I would go for. The beta-v branch has that extra month of work by va2ron1, but I'm seriously considering dropping it due to the amount of time that it would take for me to polish the new file manager, and to fix the things that broke.