Bug 380203

Summary:	Panel for LastScreen != 0 is lost offscreen when connecting different displays
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	James Hemsing <jhemsing>
Component:	Panel	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	jgrulich, nate, notuxius
Priority:	NOR
Version:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
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Description James Hemsing 2017-05-25 20:32:05 UTC

When connecting a different display to my system and removing the previous primary display, the panel containing the kickoff is offscreen and not recoverable without changing the LastScreen key in the ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc back to 0. If the value of LastScreen is 0, this isn't a problem since there will always be a 0 display. However, I like to have my kickoff panel on my non-primary screen so that it is visible with fullscreen video/games, making LastScreen for this panel non-zero. 

I'm running the latest version of Arch. I am also running the amdgpu kernel video driver FWIW. Since I frequently move my PC around the house between different monitors and TVs, I've noticed this problem. 

Verifying the actual display with widgets/panel is connected might be a good way to go, or perhaps providing an option to gather all offscreen panels and widgets to a visible display might be good to preserve user preferences.

Comment 1 Alexander Mentyu 2018-03-02 11:31:37 UTC

Possibly related to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380203

Comment 2 Alexander Mentyu 2018-03-02 11:32:54 UTC

Sorry i meant https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377588

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2022-06-25 17:14:34 UTC

A lot has changed since this bug was filed. Is it still reproducible for you in Plasma 5.25? We did a lot of multimonitor reliability fixes in that version.

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