Bug 366468

Summary: When set screens to be not vertically aligned kscreen breaks
Product: [Plasma] KScreen Reporter: Simone Gaiarin <simgunz>
Component: commonAssignee: Sebastian Kügler <sebas>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.7.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Simone Gaiarin 2016-08-06 09:42:46 UTC
When I set the vertical alignment of my two screens in kscreen to be not vertical aligned (because my real two monitors are not), the following happens:

- One screen is turned off and in the other I see the bottom part of the desktop on the top of the screen and viceversa, and then it's impossible to interact with plasma
- When I logout and login from KDE I get a black screen with only the mouse pointer visible. The mouse pointer is snapped on one edge of the screen and can only be moved vertically.

To solve I need to delete all the kscreen configurations from shell (probably there is only one that is corrupted) and login again.


Graphics:  Card: Intel Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller
           Display Server: X.Org 1.17.4 driver: intel Resolution: 1920x1080@60.02hz, 1920x1080@60.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Haswell Mobile GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 12.0.1

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Set the screens vertically misaligned in kscreen config
2.Click apply
3.
Comment 1 Sebastian Kügler 2016-08-08 12:36:41 UTC
Could you test this against 5.8 (or git master, Neon dev/unstable or openSUSE tumbleweed with latest builds)?

We've fixed a number of problems that could lead to your symptoms.

If problems persist, please clean out ~/.local/share/kscreen/kscreen.log, reproduce the problem, and attach this log to this bugreport.

Thanks for helping to isolate this problem.
Comment 2 Simone Gaiarin 2016-08-11 18:37:03 UTC
I can try to download a Neon image and test it. Is it ok? Should I choose the stable branch or unstable branch version of the developer edition?
Comment 3 Simone Gaiarin 2016-08-12 18:25:58 UTC
Tested with KDE Neon live image branch stable and the bug seems to not be present.
Comment 4 Sebastian Kügler 2016-08-15 10:54:48 UTC
Thanks for confirming and testing!