Bug 314045

Summary:	Add option to disable auto-save in kscreen and auto-load user saved configuration on output's changes
Product:	[Plasma] KScreen	Reporter:	Lamarque V. Souza <lamarque>
Component:	common	Assignee:	Daniel Vrátil <dvratil>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	dvratil, g1639926, lamarque, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	1.1
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Lamarque V. Souza 2013-01-28 20:57:57 UTC

kscreen auto-saves any change that comes from XRR. However, sometimes the change is not not correct [1] and causes kscreen to override user saved configuration. Since the problem described in [1] is probably in proprietary driver (fglrx) it is likely that it will never be solved. It would be interesing to add a workaround in kscreen to revert wrong configurations (from user's point of view) that comes from XRR, for that to happen we need to change kscreen to do not auto-save any configuration from XRR and auto-load user saved configuration on output's configuration change.

[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313303#c4

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use a broken driver (like fglrx) and plug/unplug an external tv
2. XRR will wrongly changes the primary screen's mode
Actual Results:  
kscreen will auto-save the wrong configuration overriding what the user saved using kscreen's kcm.

Expected Results:  
kscreen fixes wrong XRR configuration by auto-loading a configuration that the user has previously saved.

GPU: hd4570
driver: ati-drivers-12.6_beta_pre897

Comment 1 Alex Fiestas 2013-06-28 19:32:44 UTC

I will add a hidden option as soon as possible to disable this. Once more users reports this we might add a GUI for it.

Comment 2 Alex Fiestas 2013-06-28 19:32:50 UTC

I will add a hidden option as soon as possible to disable this. Once more users reports this we might add a GUI for it.

Comment 3 g1639926 2016-08-29 21:12:27 UTC

Any work on this point? The problem must hit many, I had to search for it twice so far.

Either solve it or ask the Pope to include
rm -r ~/.kde4/share/apps/kscreen into the Bible.

Comment 4 Nate Graham 2022-11-08 18:31:00 UTC

This doesn't seem like something we want to support, sorry.