Bug 294473

Summary: KRunner appears on the same desktop as System Activity regardless of current screen
Product: [Plasma] krunner Reporter: Gabriel Trisca <tog000>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: adaptee, me, richard.llom
Priority: NOR    
Version: 4.8.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Gabriel Trisca 2012-02-20 04:55:56 UTC
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.8.0) 
OS:                Linux

KRunner keeps showing up on whatever desktop the System Activity window is open.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
- Open the "System Activity" window (Ctrl+Esc)
- Move to a different desktop
- and launch KRunner via the shortcut (alt+f2)

Actual Results:  
The KRunner window shows up in the same desktop as the "System Activity"

Expected Results:  
The KRunner window should appear in the current desktop
Comment 1 Jekyll Wu 2013-03-20 14:22:38 UTC
*** Bug 317044 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Richard Llom 2013-03-21 00:11:50 UTC
This bug is still valid for the current 4.10.1, is there any progress going on?
Anything I can help to provide?

See also my report on bug 294473 which is slightly different.
Comment 3 Richard Llom 2013-03-21 00:12:47 UTC
I meant bug 317044.
Comment 4 Christoph Feck 2013-04-27 21:06:09 UTC
The system activity window _is_ krunner, and I am unsure if a single application can open windows on two different monitors at the same time (it might involve opening two X display connections?). If you want to help, you could provide a patch proving me wrong :)
Comment 5 Richard Llom 2013-05-01 19:17:10 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> The system activity window _is_ krunner, and I am unsure if a single
> application can open windows on two different monitors at the same time (it
> might involve opening two X display connections?). If you want to help, you
> could provide a patch proving me wrong :)
> 
Me!? :-0 I don't think so...

Also the current situation with system activity + krunner = one program, is rather bad considering the krunner crashes (like bug 297502, 257996) this means when krunner crashes, your system activity is also not available...

I think the best solution to this bug (and overall) would be to drop the system activtiy module in krunner completely. The button in krunner and the shortcut (Ctrl+Esc) should start then the system monitor (ksysguard) instead.
Comment 6 Vishesh Handa 2015-02-13 17:25:04 UTC
Fixed with Plasma 5.