I've been running zorin for about 3 weeks now, having moved from windows, and loving it!
Just got a few fairly minor issues that I can't work out how to resolve that I could do with some help on.
Standby button
Is there any way to get a standby button in the log out/power off menu?
I can put it in standby by closing the lid on my laptop, but sometimes I like to see that it's all gone to sleep. Windows on the same machine used to have an issue where it didn't always go into standby/hibernate correctly resulting in a very hot laptop on occassion after I'd stuffed it in a bag still running.
Apps opening on 'wrong' monitor'
I use 3 monitors at work (including the laptop screen). Mostly all working pretty well except that some apps are opening on the wrong monitor. They should be opening on the primary screen, which I know is set right as the taskbar appears on that monitor, but when opening most apps (chrome, brave, phpstorm for example), they launch on 'screen 3' to my left. I can't work out why they're doing this or make it stop. Any ideas?
Glitchy sound
I set up pipewire instead of pulse, very early on so I can say if I had these issues with pulse too or not. It's mostly ok but then occassionally will get loads of little pops & clicks. Restarting the pipewire service fixes it but I can't work out what's causing it. Happens maybe once every 48 hours or so.
I've played around with the buffer size a bit but that's not seemed to have made much different. Currently set at 512.
I'm sure there was something else but I can't recall what that was now.
You can go to standby by holding Fn and F1 (or another F1-12 key, mine is F1 and it sets a standby, it has 2 z meaning that the computer will sleep ). Otherwise you should have this in the tray icons container and in the main menu and, after clicking the power button on the tray icons container, Suspend.
The lock button shows the lock screen instead of setting a standby but once you leave it idle for a while or close the lid it should go in standby.
Changing monitor position ? If you can't figure out how to show some apps on the correct monitor through a GUI you move them physically .
i have dual screens and if i open an app it would open in the main screen (my laptop screen)
only times it opens in 2nd screen if it was used there last , meaning it remembers last screen it was on .
maybe theres a setting to open all apps in default screen , but i haven't looked /found it yet
Thing is they're opening on the screen I have in portrait that I NEVER use for apps like my ide, web browser's etc and they're the ones that will initially launch there.
Then after I've opened them on my main monitor they'll then reopen there if closed, but after a reboot it's back to the same.
Not a Biggie as easily resolved, just minorly irritating and a bit odd.
Thanks, That worked. Although I would never have thought to look there. I was expecting/hoping that it would be in the lower right of the Zorin menu where the Log out, Lock, Restart & Power Off buttons are.
Which does highlight an inconsistency: In the Zorin menu the 'Power Off' button turns the computer off, but in the Tray menu the same 'Power Off' icon opens a menu from where you can select a power related action.
In respect of your sound issue, I've experienced issues with my surround sound system and Audigy soundcard in another distro. I resolved the issue using Audacious settings here:
Yeah, a weird thing . Right now I can only think that the best thing is adding 3 vertical dots or a small arrow to indicate that clicking it will open a small window instead of switching off directly as the user thinks the first time.
Regarding apps opening on the wrong screen, this is a big problem with linux in general: multi-monitor support is not great.
When I first tried Zorin a few years ago (on a PC, not laptop) I had two landscape monitors and one portrait, and the live environment correctly picked the central screen as primary. After installation, however, it picked the left-most screen, which was the portrait one! What's worse is that after logging in sideways and fixing the screen positions, orientation, and setting the central as primary, that only applied to the logged-in user account - the login screen immediately after booting was still the portrait screen and still sideways, though I did find a way to fix that by copying some user-space config files elsewhere.
I also had the issue with some programs always opening on the left-hand portrait screen, no matter where I closed them or what settings I tried. Conversely, some programs always opened on the primary central monitor even if I last closed them on the left-hand portrait or right-hand landscape monitor.
Probably not multi-monitor related and just gnome being sh*t, as is expected, some programs would remember if I resized them or closed them maximised, some would not. This was particularly frustrating when I closed something maximised on my right-hand 1920x1080 screen but then they re-opened maximised on my central 2560x1440 screen, or on the rotated portrait 1080x1920 screen
I documented my various greivances with Zorin / gnome in this forum and then continued distro-hopping, eventually settling on Manjaro. I found that all Ubuntu-based distros had the same issues, though the only non-Ubuntu-debian-based one I tried was LMDE which had some of the issues, not all. I'm unsure exactly which issues are Ubuntu, which are debian, which are gnome, and which are Zorin, specifically.
). Otherwise you should have this 
in the tray icons container and in the main menu and, after clicking the power button on the tray icons container, 
? If you can't figure out how to show some apps on the correct monitor through a GUI you move them physically 
.
. Right now I can only think that the best thing is adding 3 vertical dots or a small arrow to indicate that clicking it will open a small window instead of switching off directly as the user thinks the first time.