Bug 392322

Summary:	Desktop icons only appear on one monitor
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Tim Van den Langenbergh <tmt_vdl>
Component:	Desktop icons & Folder View widget	Assignee:	Eike Hein <hein>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.12.3
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Tim Van den Langenbergh 2018-03-25 17:36:18 UTC

I am using two monitors with the standard folder view showing the Desktop folder.

Ever since last time I updated the desktop icons are only appearing on the monitor which is detected first, with no icons appearing on the other monitor.

I can fix it by changing the location the one monitor shows to the explicit Desktop folder by setting the view to specific location -> Desktop, but that causes the icon names to always show the full name with extension instead of the application name.

The problem also appears if I set both monitors to show the same folder. I have tested this both under Wayland and X and the problem is identical under both.

Comment 1 Eike Hein 2018-03-28 07:21:02 UTC

5.13 will have a new option to control this.