Bug 339558

Summary:	Display module in System Settings should automatically set size to disabled when device is unplugged
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	DrSlony <bugs>
Component:	kcm_randr	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	afiestas, bugs, hbock
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
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Description DrSlony 2014-10-01 05:58:07 UTC

Unplugging a secondary monitor is unnecessarily complicated by having to go back to the Display module and setting the device's size to "disabled", otherwise if we just pull the cable out the device is left as enabled which can cause errors in other programs.
The program should be smart enough to automatically disable a device when it's unplugged.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 DrSlony 2014-10-02 06:55:47 UTC

When I wrote this report, I only had the old "Display" module installed. Now I installed kscreen-1.0.71 and libkscreen-1.0.5.

Using kscreen the TV does automatically get disabled when unplugged without me having to manually disable it.  I confirm this by a lack of error message when applying a profile using dispcalGUI, whereas before there was an error message about the second display device missing. If the old Display module is being abandoned in favor of kscreen, then this bug report can be closed.

Comment 2 David Edmundson 2015-01-22 12:09:32 UTC

Thanks for reporting your bug.

Since reporting Krandr has since been replaced by KScreen. It is available in the Plasma 4 series, and is default in Plasma 5 onwards.

I hope this solves your issue. If you still have a problem after upgrading please reopen a new bug under kscreen.

Thanks