Bug 202042

Summary: automatic changing background pictures only works for the primarily screen
Product: [Unmaintained] plasma4 Reporter: Lars Müller <lars>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist CC: aseigo
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Attachments: plasma-desktop-appletsrc as requested by comment #1
xorg configuration file

Description Lars Müller 2009-07-31 00:50:13 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.98)
Compiler:          gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291] 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

This is on a dual head setup with two identical displays.

It's my intention to get background pictures displayed on a random base.

This is configured to both displays but only works on the left, the primarily.

I'm able to configure even the right in the same way.  Here it works only till the next new session setup (required due to updates or a user change).
Comment 1 Aaron J. Seigo 2009-08-01 00:31:05 UTC
"dual head"

do you mean "two screens, each with its own x server" or is there just one x server? if so, how is it configured?

"I'm able to configure even the right in the same way.  Here it works only till
the next new session setup"

can you please provide more details on what you mean here? exactly how are you configuring it, what results, etc? also consider posting your plasma-desktop-appletsrc.
Comment 2 Lars Müller 2009-08-01 18:14:09 UTC
Two screens are connected to one graphics interface card.  The card has two connectors.  One DVI and one VGA.

It's one Xorg process running.

If I configure randomly changing background pictures this works for the left screen.  Once activated this even works for the left screen after a fresh login without any extra work.

But the right screen stays with a blank light blue screen.

A right mouse click -> settings (Alt+D, Alt+S) and pressing "OK" even makes the right screen change the background picture as intended.
Comment 3 Lars Müller 2009-08-01 18:16:56 UTC
Created attachment 35774 [details]
plasma-desktop-appletsrc as requested by comment #1
Comment 4 Lars Müller 2009-08-01 18:21:22 UTC
Created attachment 35775 [details]
xorg configuration file
Comment 5 Lars Müller 2009-08-01 18:23:57 UTC
The screen with the 'missing' background picture is connected to the DVI port.
Comment 6 Lars Müller 2009-08-08 20:45:21 UTC
Now I had for the first time the blank blue screen on the left display (VGA) while the random background picture works well on the right via DVI connected one.
Comment 7 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 20:27:35 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