| Summary: | xinerama setup: Its not possible to place icons on screen 2 if you chose "Align to Grid" | ||
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| Product: | kdesktop | Reporter: | Marc Schiffbauer <mschiff> |
| Component: | icons | Assignee: | Benoit Walter <b.walter> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | finex, fuzz, hr.denzler, kde-bugs, X_X_L |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Ubuntu | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Attachments: | This file should be called by autostart | ||
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Description
Marc Schiffbauer
2005-11-14 13:51:41 UTC
I've also experienced this running KDE 3.5.0 RC1 on gentoo. My desktop icons were all on screen 2, but when I loaded up a newly installed kde 3.5, it moved them all over to screen 1 and wouldn't let me drag them back until I unchecked align to grid. This wasn't a problem in kde 3.4. I can confirm this bug, It's also present in the current SuSE RPMs for KDE 3.5.0 (i.e. kdebase3-3.5.0-16). Also enabling/disabling align to grid sometimes changes the icon arrangement and/or the line wrapping of the icon text. I've experienced this too, in KDE 3.5.0 RC1 (and KDE 3.5.0 Final) for Gentoo. Very annoying in an otherwise excellent product, especially since it worked in 3.4.3 I can confirm this bug. I was uusing kde 3.4.3 with my Desktop-Icons placed on the second Screen. After upgrading to kde 3.5.0 my Icons moved to the first screen. If I uncheck align to grid then I can move the icons back on screen 2, but afer a relogin the icons move back on screen 1 Exactly the same here. Using the Kubuntu packages, KDE 3.5.0. Upgraded from 3.4.3 where everything was fine. I have found the same problem. I also have found another problem that seems to be caused by "Align to Grid", #117550 (http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117550). I can also confirm that bug - Gentoo with KDE 3.5.0 final. Confirmed (in 3.5.0 Alioth debian packages). The "align to grid" option overrides the "lock in place" option. When "align to grid" is disabled in my setup, icons do maintain their positions on screen 2 after relogging in, whether or not "lock in place" is enabled *** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. *** Ok, confirmed (surprise, surprise...) using experimental KDE 3.5 packages for Debian SID. This bug was not present in KDE 3.4.3 I had installed before. Disabling the "align icons to grid" works around this bug so I'm at least able to put the icons back to different monitors, tough not automatically aligned, of course... :-/ This bug is still "included" in KDE 3.5.1 (Used Gentoo ebuilds) The same for the (K)ubuntu packages. I can also confirm this bug - unsupported KDE 3.5.0-29 package for SuSE 10.0. I am also using xinerama with 2 monitors - same behaviour... Same thing. Mandriva 2006, KDE 3.5.1 from thac&ze rpms. 1024x768 (screen2, left) 1600x1200 (screen1, right) icons can't be moved to the screen2 while "Align to Grid" selected. If not selected icons can be moved, but after KDE restarts they are moved to screen1 and icons in screen1 shifted to the right also. Seems like it scales 2624 width of 2 screens to 1600 of screen1 and place icons accordingly. Created attachment 14661 [details]
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Okay - after playing some time with the dcop routines from kdesktop and
watching the source code from kdesktop and kicker I was able to write a
workaround for this bug.
This bug seems to be caused by a wrong desktop geometry that kicker gives to
kdesktop by the dcop call "desktopIconsAreaChanged".
Now my knowledge in C and the kde-source code is not sufficient to provide a
patch, so I wrote a simple bash script which gets the actual (correct) desktop
geometry from kwin, and sets it by using the same dcop call
"desktopIconsAreaChanged" from kdesktop KDesktopIface. Add this script to
autostart to call it on every system boot.
Can confirm this bug for SuSE RPMs for 9.3 KDE 3.5.1 Level "a". It's very galling, as i use the second (mostly "window empty" screen) for the fast access to many apps via desktop icons placed there. Bug is still present in KDE 3.5.2 (Gentoo Portage) and still in 3.5.3... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 122001 *** With the patch from 122001 Icons still move to Xinerama Screen 1 when KDE starts. Still experiencing this bug in Kubuntu, 3.5.4 I can confirm that this bug is _NOT RESOLVED_ in 3.5.4. Running Gentoo here. And NOT RESOLVED in 3.5.5 / Gentoo. Also here on SUSE 10.1 with KDE 3.5.5 "release 45.1" this bug is still present. Same problem seems to be addressed in Bug 132787. *** Bug 117463 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Bug closed. Kdesktop is no more mantained. |