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Using 3 monitors, one goes completely blank on certain pages in Lemmy. How do I fix this? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/linuxquestions

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If I have my browser maximized in my center monitor, whenever I go to search on Lemmy or go to my inbox and it is empty, the screen goes completely blank/black. It looks as if it lost power. If the browser is not maximized, it wont happen. This happens whether I use Chrome or Firefox. Any ideas on how to start troubleshooting?

OS: KDE Neon 6.0
KDE PLasma: 6.0.2 (happened with KDE 5.x too)
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
Monitor messing up in connnected to the HDMI port.
Other two monitors are connected (a) to the DisplayPort and (b) DVI-D

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[–] possiblylinux127 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That sounds a little bit like a hardware issue. Lemmy can't effect the display as that's not possible.

What movements are you doing when visiting Lemmy? Could you be unplugging something? Try wiggling your setup.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Does it happen on either of the other two monitors?

Super strange sounding issue, btw. Quite interesting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Not at all. It only happens on the monitor connected to the HDMI port.

[–] possiblylinux127 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Did you ever find a solution to this? How old is your graphics card? It might be dying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Nope. It also happened when I was logging into google. When the password section came up, it went completely dark. Luckily, I can move the mouse to the top of the screen, click-hold, and pull down, which will un-maximize the browser, and the screen will come back on.

The video card is an GTX 1060 6GB. I don't know when I got it exactly, but I did get it brand new sometime around 2017, so it's about 7 years old.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I don't think it's a Lemmy issue.

I'm just moving my mouse and not bumping into anything. This happens 100% reliably and doesn't happen at all if there is any posts/comments on the screen.