Bug 342540

Summary: Annoying progress bar
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: Geoff <kde>
Component: kcm_notifyAssignee: Olivier Goffart <ogoffart>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: kde
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Mint (Ubuntu based)   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Attachments: lshw output

Description Geoff 2015-01-06 01:03:30 UTC 
Annoying 'progress bar' appears on the desktop following a period of approx 60 of inactivity. It is not persistent enough to allow a screenshot (appears for approx 5 secs) ... it is a rectangular 'progress type' bar with an image of a pc screen at the LH side and a percent indicator at the right hand side that. The 'bar area' in between is always static and colourless. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. New install of Mint 17.1 KDE Rebecca
2. It appears prior to any config adjustments by the user
3. No system config efforts seem to affect it.



Linux akoya-mnt171-64kde 3.13.0-37-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 22 21:28:38 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Linux Debian jessie/sid ( 3.13.0-37-generic x86_64)
Comment 1 Geoff 2015-01-06 01:05:01 UTC 
Created attachment 90248 [details]
lshw output
Comment 2 Kai Uwe Broulik 2015-01-06 20:00:02 UTC 
Umm, could that be the screen brightness indicator that errorneously appears on 4.x series [1] when, after having been idle, the screen dims?

[1] https://i.stack.imgur.com/lns2U.png
Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2015-01-06 22:33:19 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 325643 ***
Comment 4 Geoff 2015-01-07 20:58:18 UTC 
That being the case ... perhaps this helps ... whenever Mint has been installed on this laptop (see lshw output above) the brightness functionality on the keyboard has never worked .... to make it work i have had to change the file /etc/default/grub, to include the line:

 “GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_osi="” 

then "sudo update-grub" to apply changes, after which i can manually alter the brightness of the screen via the keyboard. In fact now that i think about it this bug has been around since the days i used to have Ubuntu installed ... how about 3 yrs ago!
Comment 5 Geoff 2015-01-07 21:00:41 UTC 
(In reply to Kai Uwe Broulik from comment #2)
> Umm, could that be the screen brightness indicator that errorneously appears
> on 4.x series [1] when, after having been idle, the screen dims?
> 
> [1] https://i.stack.imgur.com/lns2U.png

Yes ... that is the culprit!!!!
Comment 6 Kai Uwe Broulik 2015-01-07 21:02:32 UTC 
That has been fixed in Plasma 5. Said popup now only ever appears when you manually change the brightness, never when the system does it automatically.
Comment 7 Christoph Feck 2015-01-08 01:25:42 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 325643 ***