Bug 163218

Summary:	Screen scaling problems and no window decorations
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Georg Greve <greve>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	grundleborg
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Screenshot of KDE 4.1 on my machine

Description Georg Greve 2008-06-04 17:58:26 UTC

Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

To a laptop (IBM Thinkpad X61s) with 1024x768 LCD resolution I have connected a screen with 1920x1200 resolution via VGA. This works fine with KDE 3.5.

When trying the Debian experimental packages of 4.1-beta (4.0.80), the screen is recognised (and the whole area filled with background pattern) but KDE 4.1 assumes a 1024x768 desktop, reducing the background picture and panels to that size. The result is a *very* odd looking screen, for which I'll gladly provide a screenshot.

In the control center I could not find a way to actually set the resolution for the desktop (although I found the menu that shows me that both screens were correctly identified).

Also the windows appear to be missing any decoration, looks like the window manager is not running.

If there is any additional information I can provide, please let me know.

Comment 1 Georg Greve 2008-06-04 17:59:07 UTC

Created attachment 25122 [details]
Screenshot of KDE 4.1 on my machine

Comment 2 Lubos Lunak 2008-07-01 16:13:35 UTC

Please provide the backtrace from the window manager crash.

Comment 3 Georg Greve 2008-07-02 09:08:38 UTC

My apologies, I should have updated this:

I discussed this with Sebastian Kuegler and Aaron Seigo.

We agreed this was two bugs:

 1. xrandr problems that should have been fixed in the latest beta (need to confirm)

 2. an impossible to reproduce kwin bug that might have been caused by #1 and which Sebastian and I agreed to file under "happened once and was annoying back then" until it resurfaces.

So please close this bug for now, I will test the xrandr issue asap and will reopen another one for kwin if the problem reappears.

Comment 4 Georg Greve 2008-07-06 15:38:23 UTC

Closing this bug, it has been superseded by

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165862
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165863