20.4 Beta - Not remembering Screen arrangement

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Hello Team,

New to Ubuntu Budgie. FreeBSD/KDE5 Workstation user. Trying Ubuntu Budgie in my Surface Pro4. Trying to make a choice between Fedora and Ubuntu Budgie for my portable workstation.

I started with Ubuntu Budgie 19.10 and upgraded to the 20.4 last night. Everything went smooth. My problem was there in 19.10 too. I plug in a Samsung 32" 4K external screen via Surface Dock (brick type). System never remembers my screen arrangement over reboots. 19.10 used to forget fractional scaling too. This is fixed after the upgrade to 20.4.

Any idea what could be wrong? Is it the Surface Dock not playing well with Ubuntu?

Thanks,

KJ

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Is this an NVIDIA type surface? If so are you using the recommended drivers in Menu - Hardware Drivers? Possibly this article will help Display settings lost on reboot on ubuntu 18.04 - Ask Ubuntu

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It’s intel
Mesa Intel® Iris® Graphics 540 (SKL GT3)

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$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 045e:090c Microsoft Corp. SD Card
Bus 002 Device 008: ID 045e:07c6 Microsoft Corp. RTL8153 GigE [Surface Dock Ethernet]
Bus 002 Device 007: ID 045e:0902 Microsoft Corp. Surface Dock Hub
Bus 002 Device 006: ID 045e:0900 Microsoft Corp. Surface Dock Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 014: ID 045e:07e4 Microsoft Corp. Surface Type Cover
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 1286:204c Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. Bluetooth and Wireless LAN Composite Device
Bus 001 Device 011: ID 045e:0905 Microsoft Corp. Surface Dock Audio
Bus 001 Device 010: ID 045e:0904 Microsoft Corp. Surface Dock Extender
Bus 001 Device 013: ID 045e:07f8 Microsoft Corp. Wired Keyboard 600 (model 1576)
Bus 001 Device 009: ID 045e:0903 Microsoft Corp. Surface Dock Hub
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 045e:0901 Microsoft Corp. Surface Dock Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

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xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 7856 x 2880, maximum 16384 x 16384
eDP-1 connected 2736x1824+5120+700 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 260mm x 173mm
2736x1824 60.01*+
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-2-1 connected primary 5120x2880+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 697mm x 392mm
3840x2160 30.00*+ 25.00 24.00 29.97 23.98
2560x1440 59.95
1920x1080 60.00 50.00 59.94 30.00 24.00 29.97 23.98
1680x1050 59.88
1600x900 60.00
1280x1024 75.02 60.02
1440x900 59.90
1280x800 59.91
1152x864 75.00
1280x720 60.00 50.00 59.94
1024x768 75.03 70.07 60.00
832x624 74.55
800x600 72.19 75.00 60.32 56.25
720x576 50.00
720x480 60.00 59.94
640x480 75.00 72.81 66.67 60.00 59.94
720x400 70.08
DP-2-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

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Reported as Ubuntu 20.4 bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1852860

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