Bug 390097

Summary: Pager widget changes size when plugging in an external monitor
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Andrew Crouthamel <andrew.crouthamel>
Component: PagerAssignee: Eike Hein <hein>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal CC: plasma-bugs
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.12.0   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Neon   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Attachments: Before monitor connection, normal size.
After monitor connection, larger size.

Description Andrew Crouthamel 2018-02-08 19:42:16 UTC
The Pager widget for showing virtual desktops expands in size upon plugging in an external monitor. In this example, it was a 1080p monitor plugged into a laptop running 4k, if that matters.

KDE Plasma Version: 5.12.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.42.0
Qt Version: 5.9.3
Kernel Version 4.13.0-32-generic
OS Type: 64-bit
Comment 1 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-02-08 19:44:32 UTC
Created attachment 110448 [details]
Before monitor connection, normal size.
Comment 2 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-02-08 19:45:08 UTC
Created attachment 110449 [details]
After monitor connection, larger size.
Comment 3 Eike Hein 2018-02-09 12:38:49 UTC
This is expected and correct behavior. The pager's base aspect ratio is the bounding box of all monitors. Otherwise it can't show their content.
Comment 4 Eike Hein 2018-02-09 12:40:26 UTC
(Note: there's a "Only the current screen" checkbox in the settings, too.)