Bug 177868

Summary:	plasma engine update $DISPLAY
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	janpieter sollie <janpieter.sollie>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description janpieter sollie 2008-12-15 19:38:39 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.1.3)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

I would like to set the internal $DISPLAY variable of the plasma application launcher component at runtime.  
This is useful to determine on which display the application will run when working multi-headed (in win32 it was called 'primary monitor').  Twinview also has such an option, but it does not work.
A suggested mechanism is 'dbus org.kde.plasma reparseConfiguration()'
complete story: http://forum.kde.org/plasma-re-initialize-shell-variables-t-20121.html

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 20:35:39 UTC

Hello!

This feature request was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this feature request is already implemented in Plasma 5, or is no longer applicable.

Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this feature request. If the requested feature is still desired but not implemented in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting

If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging

Thanks for your understanding!

Nate Graham