https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454345
--- Comment #57 from Ric Grant <rich...@qweb.co.uk> --- (In reply to shadowfire+web from comment #54) > Hi, I'm new to this thread, not to having this issue. This bit me > infrequently between 2015 and 2019 on two separate Fedora workstations (each > with 1 monitor), then it went away but after a recent upgrade from Plasma > 5.26 to 5.27 it came back with a vengeance (single Fedora workstation, 2 > screens). Rather than (after using KDE/Plasma for over a decade) changing to > a different DE (which I was very tempted to do but I guess Gnome 2 isn't > around any more) I decided to try some debugging first. > > I've made an interactive shell script for myself with options to 1) create a > backup of plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc and to 2) quit > plasmashell/restore appletsrc backup/restart plasmashell > ( kquitapp5 plasmashell ; cp -v $backupfile > $HOME/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc ; kstart5 plasmashell > & ) > > This allows me to quickly test out different screen configurations with the > same appletsrc. > > Notes on my current setup: > Left screen: Folder View, icons, panel on top of the screen > Right screen: Desktop View, no icons and panels etc. and set to primary > display (can't remember why I did that) > > Some provisional conclusions based on many tests: > -Turing the right screen off makes scrambling less frequent > -Setting panel to autohide (*) makes scrambling less frequent (50%) > -Setting right screen to Folder View usually moves my icons to the right > screen (arranged in rows) > > *) I've noticed during restart of plasmashell that sometimes icons are lined > up correctly but get scrambled within a few hundred milliseconds. And I also > noticed that their vertical space is squashed by a tiny factor when the > panel is loaded in. I assumed this is so that the panel doesn't cover up > icons so maybe the panel loading in may be a factor in this issue? > > So far I haven't seen this issue happening when the right screen is off and > panel is set to autohide but I want to test that some more... I didn't realise you could set one screen to be Folder view and another to be Desktop view actually. I'd always assumed the desktop settings were global, not per screen. Unsure why I'd have concluded that mind. Reading your post, I wondered if setting the primary screen to Desktop view would stop the icons attempting to move back to it when the secondary screen switches off, and hoped this would in turn prevent scrambling - but apparently not. If I leave my secondary screen as a Folder view with the icons arranged, and switch my primary to Desktop view, rebooting / closing the lid still scrambles everything like before. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
