Bug 275930

Summary:	Maximized Panel restores to wrong size on monitor change
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Ray <codemonkey>
Component:	containment-panel	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	fischer, kde, silver.salonen
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.7.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Ray 2011-06-17 18:47:01 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.3) 
OS:                Linux

I regularly switch my laptop between a wide-screen monitor at work and a normal monitor at home (and sometimes the LVDS).  My KDE Panel is set to maximized but it seems to always restore (when I login) to the size of the monitor that I *previously* ran on.

So, if I've last run on a normal monitor (or the LVDS) and then I boot on the wide-screen, the Panel comes up too short.  Conversely, if I've last run on the wide-screen and then boot on a normal screen, the Panel comes up too long with the right side extending past the screen edge (and therefore unaccessible).

In both cases, I have to manually fix it by right-clicking, selecting "Panel Options->Panel Settings", opening the Panel Settings, clicking on "More Settings" then "Maximize Panel" then "Lock Widgets".  (I normally keep my widgets locked.)

I've started an experiment to see if this is related to locked widgets.  I'm leaving my widgets unlocked; I'll know in a few days if this makes a difference.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
see details


Expected Results:  
The Panel should always adapt itself to the current screen size (depending on settings).

A maximized Panel should always be the same width as the screen.


kernel 2.6.38.8-32.fc15.x86_64

Comment 1 Roman Fietze 2011-07-07 16:21:27 UTC

The same thing happens when you login to your account via the local X server and e.g. NX and other X servers with different sizes.

This is extremely annoying, because in my case this happens multiple times a day, and didn't exist in older versions of the KDE desktop.

This problem is somewhat related to bug #132347, one should be able to specify relative positions of the edges of objects as it was possible for years using X11.

Comment 2 Ray 2011-07-07 16:50:09 UTC

Roman's comment reminds me that I forgot to follow-up regarding having widgets locked or not:

It does not make a difference.  The problem occurs either way.

~ray

Comment 3 Thomas Fischer 2011-09-08 11:16:51 UTC

This bug looks like a duplicate of 209962, which according to comment #33 is fixed as of KDE 4.7.0.
Bug reports: please confirm if it is actually fixed in 4.7.0 or mark this bug as duplicate of 275930 if you agree to my assessment.

Comment 4 Silver Salonen 2011-09-28 11:15:09 UTC

It still happens with 4.7.1.

I use a non-maximized vertical panel and when I switch my monitor for a smaller one, after changing the monitor back, the panel is suddenly maximized.

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 19:39:15 UTC

Hello!

This bug report 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 bug is already resolved in Plasma 5.

Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this bug report. If the issue described  here is still present 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