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Splash screen after login freezes the system if connected to second monitor

Hi all,

DE: KDE
Other conditions: laptop and second monitor connected via HDMI
Reproducibility: always occurs when X11 is selected at login while, if I select Wayland instead, it works just fine

So basically after I insert the password in the login screen, the following splash screen get stuck into the animation and freezes the whole system (I cannot access a CLI with keyboard shortcuts or at least that's not shown on screen). This happens everytime I boot up the computer while connected to second monitor via HDMI and selecting X11. Disconnecting the HDMI cable doesn't solve anything, it does only move the stuck splash animation on another section of the main screen, reconnecting the cable results in the second monitor having multiple stuck images tiled around.

I'm reporting this issue here first so to check if anyone had the same problem and had it solved, so please tell me if there's a better place to report bugs (if that's one at all).

Thank you for the attention,

Rhyu
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Re: Splash screen after login freezes the system if connected to second monitor

Reply #1 –
I'm adding up further issues to this one: now the problem occurs also with Wayland.
The only differences are that the same screen is cut in a weird way on the main laptop while correctly sized in the connected monitor, as if the laptop was mirroring the larger monitor 1:1, and this time I cannot click Enter (both via cursor and keyboard) after having inserted the password.
I simply get stuck at the login screen, cannot even click on other buttons like "Restart" or "Power Down", so I have to physically press the power button to power down the laptop and restart it while unplugging the HDMI cable before it passes Grub screen.

Any help? That's annoying at the least and potentially wearing out my machine with the brute-strength powering up-down every time I forget unplugging second monitor before opening :/
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As some say "Take your Art(ix) and store it apart(ix)"(?) :P