Bug 367668

Summary: Plasma uses only part of vertical screen space in single display mode
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Diego <diego.ml>
Component: generalAssignee: David Edmundson <kde>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: major CC: bshah, herzenschein, plasma-bugs-null
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.7.3   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Attachments: Screenshot showing the problem

Description Diego 2016-08-22 12:27:34 UTC 
Plasma seems to use (or show) only the upper part of the screen.

I have a 1920x1080 display in my laptop, but when I login in Plasma I see a black rectangle area covering the most of the bottom of the screen.

The mouse cursor cannot go in the black area, only the displayed area is accessible, but Plasma panel isn't shown in the displayed area.

The problem happens both with X11 Intel driver and modesetting driver.
$ rpm -q xorg-x11-drv-intel
xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.99.917-19.20151206.fc23.x86_64

All the area if I plug an external monitor and use a dual screen setup (though other problems arise).

Problem is not happening with LXQt which is using libkscreen too.

Let me know if you need more informations from me, I'll try to respond as quickly as possible.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. login in Plasma with only one display

Actual Results:  
Not all screen size used

Expected Results:  
All screen size used
Comment 1 Diego 2016-08-22 12:30:12 UTC 
Created attachment 100710 [details]
Screenshot showing the problem

Screenshot showing the problem. Strange thing is that I'm seeing the black area at the bottom, while Ksnapshot shows it at the top.
Comment 2 Diego 2016-08-22 12:32:18 UTC 
> All the area if I plug an external monitor and use a dual screen setup (though other problems arise).

I meant "All the area available is used if ..."
Comment 3 Thiago Sueto 2020-10-27 02:02:14 UTC 
Hello, is this issue still reproducible? If so, can you confirm that screens are shown correctly under the System Settings > Display and monitor > Display configuration page?
Comment 4 Diego 2020-11-03 14:58:04 UTC 
I can't reproduce the problem anymore. Thanks for pinging me.