Bug 169508

Summary:	Rotation of plasmoids isn't saved
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Norbert Möndjen <N.Moendjen>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	aseigo, mfabian
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Norbert Möndjen 2008-08-20 21:56:40 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.1.0)
OS:                Linux

It is quite nice that it's possible to rotate the plasmoids, but it's useless as long as the rotation isn't saved. After every restart of KDE the plasmoids are in the upright position again.

Comment 1 Christophe Marin 2008-08-21 13:59:33 UTC

After changing your plasmoids orientation, type in a terminal : 

kquitapp plasma

then restart it (just typing: plasma)

Were the settings saved ?

Comment 2 Norbert Möndjen 2008-08-21 14:04:59 UTC

Remark: I don't know why, but now the rotation is saved. I now have a parameter named transform in my plasma-appletsrc. But from time to time the tasks-plasmoid still comes up upright instead of turned left by 90°. Maybe in 1 out off 20 restarts of KDE.

Comment 3 Mike FABIAN 2008-09-22 14:59:38 UTC

I see the same problem. See also:

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=379808

I found this with KDE 4.0 but can still reproduce with KDE 4.1:

    - turn the applets to some tilted orientations
    - kquitapp plasma; sleep 1; /usr/bin/plasma &

Doesn’t happen always but very often.

There are now additional strange effects when I do that though:

    - plasma seems to use a lot of virtual memory, 3657 m
      for me at the moment. Is that intentional??

    - restarting plasma with the above procedure is very
      slow, it takes about one minute on my machine

    - I see some weird messages on standard output when
      restarting plasma:

mfabian@magellan:~$ kquitapp plasma; sleep 1; /usr/bin/plasma &
Object::disconnect: No such slot
QObject::dataUpdated(QString,Plasma::DataEngine::Data)
[1] 21648
mfabian@magellan:~$ X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
  Major opcode: 18 (X_ChangeProperty)
  Resource id:  0x2c00055
plasma(21648): Communication problem with  "plasma" , it probably crashed. 
Error message was:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Did not receive a
reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply,
the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired,
or the network connection was broken." " 

X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
  Major opcode: 18 (X_ChangeProperty)
  Resource id:  0x2c000de
QDBusConnection received a message of type 3 that it shouldn't have
error: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown" "The name :1.88 was not
provided by any .service files" 

[1]+  Exit 255                /usr/bin/plasma
mfabian@magellan:~$