Cinnamon wont allow windows on top half of monitor

[alexck]

Hi all,
I've recently switched from ubuntu due to some driver issues, everything has worked great except one of my 4 monitors won't allow me to put windows on the top 1/3 of the screen. I've attached images of my monitor and where it allows me to place windows, and a screenshot of my monitor config.
Thanks in advance

[SMG]

I've attached images of my monitor and where it allows me to place windows, and a screenshot of my monitor config.

Please give us information about your install by entering this command in a terminal: inxi -Fxxxrz
Click </> from the mini toolbar above the textbox where you type your reply and then place your cursor between the code markers and paste the results of the command between the code markers [code]Results[/code]. This will let us know how Mint sees your hardware.

Please also provide the output of xrandr and enclose the results in code tags. Make sure to let us know which connection of the ones listed in xrandr is the monitor having issues.

[alexck]

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System:
  Kernel: 5.13.0-22-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 5.0.7 wm: muffin 5.0.2 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 
  Distro: Linux Mint 20.2 Uma base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Micro-Star product: MS-7A34 v: 1.0 serial: N/A 
  Mobo: Micro-Star model: B350 TOMAHAWK (MS-7A34) v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1.OS date: 07/02/2020 
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse MX Master 2S 
  serial: <filter> charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes 
  status: Discharging 
CPU:
  Topology: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 
  L1 cache: 512 KiB L2 cache: 4096 KiB L3 cache: 32.0 MiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm 
  bogomips: 115198 
  Speed: 2200 MHz min/max: 2200/3600 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 2200 2: 2125 3: 2187 4: 2181 5: 2200 6: 2196 7: 2199 8: 2199 9: 2197 
  10: 2188 11: 2200 12: 2200 13: 2199 14: 2199 15: 2195 16: 2199 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 XT] 
  vendor: XFX Pine driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 28:00.0 
  chip ID: 1002:731f 
  Display: server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: amdgpu,ati 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon,vesa 
  resolution: 1440x900~60Hz, 1280x1024~75Hz, 1366x768~60Hz, 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT (NAVI10 DRM 3.41.0 
  5.13.0-22-generic LLVM 12.0.0) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 21.0.3 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 10 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
  bus ID: 28:00.1 chip ID: 1002:ab38 
  Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 2a:00.4 chip ID: 1022:1487 
  Device-3: ZhuHai JieLi JieLi BR17 type: USB 
  driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usb-storage,usbhid bus ID: 1-3:2 
  chip ID: e5b7:0811 serial: <filter> 
  Device-4: SHENZHEN EMEET HD Webcam eMeet C960 type: USB 
  driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus ID: 1-4:3 chip ID: 328f:2013 
  serial: <filter> 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.13.0-22-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 23:00.0 
  chip ID: 10ec:8168 
  IF: enp35s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-1: vboxnet0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 3.47 TiB used: 67.33 GiB (1.9%) 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: A-Data model: SX6000PNP size: 238.47 GiB 
  speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: V9001c27 scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD5000AAKX-75U6AA0 
  size: 465.76 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 1H19 temp: 46 C 
  scheme: GPT 
  ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Hitachi model: HUA723030ALA641 size: 2.73 TiB 
  speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: A840 temp: 50 C 
  scheme: GPT 
  ID-4: /dev/sdd vendor: Silicon Power model: SPCC Solid State Disk 
  size: 55.90 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 5 scheme: GPT 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 233.24 GiB used: 67.32 GiB (28.9%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 57.8 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 58 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 700 
Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list 
  1: deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ focal main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
  1: deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lutris-team-lutris-focal.list 
  1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/lutris-team/lutris/ubuntu focal main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
  1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com uma main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
  2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
  3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
  4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
  5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
  6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
Info:
  Processes: 396 Uptime: 3h 59m Memory: 15.58 GiB used: 3.70 GiB (23.8%) 
  Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 
  Shell: bash (sudo) v: 5.0.17 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.38 
alexck@alexck-MS-7A34:~$ sudo xrand
sudo: xrand: command not found
alexck@alexck-MS-7A34:~$ sudo xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 4128 x 1980, maximum 16384 x 16384
DisplayPort-0 connected primary 1440x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 408mm x 255mm
   1440x900      59.89*+  74.98  
   1280x1024     75.02    60.02  
   1280x800      59.89  
   1152x864      75.00  
   1280x720      59.89  
   1024x768      75.03    70.07    60.00  
   832x624       74.55  
   800x600       72.19    75.00    60.32    56.25  
   640x480       75.00    72.81    66.67    59.94  
   720x400       70.08  
DisplayPort-1 connected 1280x1024+160+900 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 160mm x 90mm
   1024x768      60.00 +  75.03    70.07    60.00  
   1920x1080     60.00  
   1400x1050     59.98  
   1600x900      60.00  
   1280x1024     75.02*   60.02  
   1440x900      59.89  
   1280x960      60.00  
   1366x768      59.79  
   1280x800      59.81  
   1152x864      75.00  
   1280x768      59.87  
   1280x720      60.00  
   832x624       74.55  
   800x600       72.19    75.00    60.32  
   640x480       75.00    72.81    66.67    59.94  
   720x400       70.08  
DisplayPort-2 connected 768x1366+3360+614 left (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 575mm x 323mm
   1366x768      59.79*+
   1280x768      59.99  
   1280x720      60.00  
   1024x768      60.00  
   800x600       60.32    56.25  
   640x480       59.94  
   720x400       70.08  
HDMI-A-0 connected 1920x1080+1440+900 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 477mm x 268mm
   1920x1080     60.00*+  59.94  
   1680x1050     59.88  
   1280x1024     75.02    60.02  
   1440x900      59.90  
   1280x960      60.00  
   1280x800      60.00  
   1280x720      60.00    59.94  
   1024x768      75.03    70.07    60.00  
   832x624       74.55  
   800x600       72.19    75.00    60.32    56.25  
   640x480       75.00    72.81    66.67    60.00    59.94  
   720x400       70.08  

The monitor is DisplayPort-2

[SMG]

You do not need to use sudo with xrandr. It's better to get in the habit of only using sudo when necessary and it is not necessary for all terminal commands.

When reading xrandr output, *= current resolution and += preferred resolution.

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Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 4128 x 1980, maximum 16384 x 16384
DisplayPort-0 connected primary 1440x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 408mm x 255mm
   1440x900      59.89*+  74.98  
DisplayPort-1 connected 1280x1024+160+900 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 160mm x 90mm
   1024x768      60.00 +  75.03    70.07    60.00  
   1280x1024     75.02*   60.02  
DisplayPort-2 connected 768x1366+3360+614 left (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 575mm x 323mm
   1366x768      59.79*+
HDMI-A-0 connected 1920x1080+1440+900 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 477mm x 268mm
   1920x1080     60.00*+  59.94 

You indicated the "problem" monitor is DisplayPort-2. Is that the yellow one in the Display app screenshot?

Are any of the monitors overlapping each other in the layout? The first line in the code I put above lists the total screen size as 4128 x 1980 and I'm trying to determine how that is achieved if the edges of each monitor just meet exactly.

[alexck]

Sorry for the late reply, I was busy writing an essay.
The Issue is with the green one. If it matters it's an old tv I put on a VESA mount and set it to rotate counter clockwise. I can confirm it worked in windows but it inconsistently had similar issues in ubuntu.
I checked and no monitors were overlapping

[alexck]

For reference, I've attached a picture of my setup.
The monitor on the right is the one having issues, you can see the top portion of the display is unused since it won't let me move any windows above that.

[alexck]

Sorry, it was too large so I had to crop a bunch

[SMG]

For reference, I've attached a picture of my setup.
The monitor on the right is the one having issues, you can see the top portion of the display is unused since it won't let me move any windows above that.

Except the image you have in your first post does show the upper part being used (if I am looking at that image correctly).

When I open the Display app, I get the colored box in the upper left corner of my screen. If I look at the image in your first post, I see a green box in the upper left corner of the screen. So the entire screen is being used.

Is it all apps that do not go above that level or just the browser app?

Have you tried making any changes in the Windows Tiling app?
Or on the Behavior tab in the Windows app?

Maybe someone else with a similar set-up will have some ideas.

[alexck]

I have not tried to make any changes in either of those apps but I am unsure of what I would need to change.
No apps will go above that level.
After additional testing, I've found that neither desktop icons nor the right-click menu will work in that section as well

[SMG]

I have not tried to make any changes in either of those apps but I am unsure of what I would need to change.

I do not have a comparable multi-monitor set-up, so I am not able to make specific suggestions.

Hopefully, someone else will be able to provide guidance.

[alexck]

sorry, just bumping this thread

[SMG]

sorry, just bumping this thread

We prefer you scroll to the bottom of the page, click wrench icon in the lower left, and then select the "bump topic" option to bump the thread.

[alexck]

sorry

[ShadowSkill]

Are you using conky in one of the desktops? I experienced similar condition while playing with widgets' positions.
I had to enable/disable each conky widget to find the problematic ones.