Bug 366423

Summary: kcmshell4 kscreen does not allow adjustment of resolutions/unify/...
Product: [Plasma] KScreen Reporter: unruh
Component: kcmAssignee: Sebastian Kügler <sebas>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: major    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 1.0.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Mageia RPMs   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description unruh 2016-08-04 20:31:25 UTC
If I run kcmshell4 kscreen, I get a single window with a representation of the screens connected to the laptop.  But there is no ability to alter anything about them. If I run SystemSettings->Display and Monitor->Display Configuration  I get the same picture of the two screens, but now there is a panel such that if I select one of the screens I can alter the resolution, the orientation, whether to enable it, whether I want to unify the outputs, etc. That panal does NOT exist when I run kcmshell4 kscreen (or kcmshell kcm_kscreen) This is on a Panasonic S10 toughbook laptop.
It has an Intel graphics card
lspci output:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)

rpm -qf /usr/bin/kcmshell4
kdebase4-runtime-4.14.3-5.mga5

rpm -q kscreen
kscreen-1.0.71-3.mga5

rpm -qf /usr/lib64/libkscreen.so.1
lib64kscreen1-1.0.5-4.mga5





Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run kcmshell4 kscreen and see the two representations of the two monitors connected to the laptop (the laptop screen and the external monitor) but nothing else. No panel below to change resolutions, etc even if I select one of the monitor representations. 
2.Close the above and now do SystemSettings_>Display and Monitor->Display configuration. 
Get the same representation as in 1 but this time if I select one of the screens I can change its resolution, Enable it, change the orientation, Unify the displays, etc. 
3.

Actual Results:  
See the description above

Expected Results:  
The two should produce identical results. I should be able to adjust stuff with kcmshell4 kscreen as well as with SystemSettings.

Mageia5 kernel 4.1.13
uname -a
Linux planet 4.1.15-desktop-2.mga5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 20 17:05:51 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Note that this was also a problem with earlier versions of Mageia. Ie, this is not a sudden bug.
Comment 1 Sebastian Kügler 2016-08-05 10:34:21 UTC
I'm sorry, but Plasma 4.x is not maintained upstream anymore. Please upgrade to Plasma 5, the problem is most likely fixed there.