https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454345
--- Comment #59 from shadowfire+...@freedom.nl --- (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 can now confirm that (on my system) setting the panel visibility to Auto Hide makes some difference; when I do multiple tries with my shellscript to reload my appletsrc backup and restart KDE: Auto Hide disabled: icons are scrambled or messed up in some other way most of the time Auto Hide enabled: 50% chance my icons completely disappear, 50% chance my icons line up correctly and (interestingly) if I then disable Auto Hide the icons stay line up correctly until the next restart. Also I haven't seen a scrambled icons state in this scenario. Btw. my setup now is: left monitor: Primary / panel + icons / Folder view layout, right monitor: clean desktop (no panel, icons etc.) / Desktop view layout And as mentioned I've noticed that when the panel is loaded in the icon area squashes slightly vertically (so the panel doesn't cover any icons that would be covered by the panel otherwise) and I think this is why disabling Auto Hide makes things behave differently. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
