Bug 388863

Summary:	Desktop icons rearranged after forced screen resolution change
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	David <david.cortes.rivera>
Component:	Desktop icons & Folder View widget	Assignee:	Eike Hein <hein>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	nate, plasma-bugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description David 2018-01-12 13:17:09 UTC

In full-screen games such as doom legacy (http://doomlegacy.sourceforge.net/), when setting a resolution other than the one set in KDE Display and Monitor settings, the resolution is not restored after closing the game, e.g. if I set my desktop resolution to be 1920x1080, run a game in 1024x768 and then close it, the resolution becomes set to 1024x768 – and, for example, desktop widgets and icons are rearranged automatically to fit this resolution, which is very inconvenient. The bug doesn’t happen in other desktop environments.

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2018-01-12 15:10:19 UTC

Are you able to reproduce using a more recent version of KDE Plasma than 5.8.6? You're using a Long-Term Support version of Plasma, but it's possible or even likely that this is already fixed in a newer version.

Comment 2 David 2018-01-25 22:04:40 UTC

Seems it's fixed in later versions in the sense that the screen resolution is restored. However, desktop widgets still get rearranged (i.e. after closing a fullscreen game that had a lower resolution, they get placed somewhere else in the desktop rather than returning to where they were before).

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2018-01-27 18:26:53 UTC

Thanks for the info!

Comment 4 Christoph Feck 2018-01-31 03:58:33 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 360478 ***

Comment 5 David 2018-02-04 10:45:07 UTC

Small update: in plasma 5.12.0 the screen resolution is again not restored the first time a fullscreen game changes it. From the second time onwards it is restored tough.