Bug 393270

Summary:	Wallpaper and tweaks resetting on secondary monitor after reboot
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	crazylegoguy
Component:	generic-multiscreen	Assignee:	Aleix Pol <aleixpol>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	finex, jarno, nate, plasma-bugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.12.4
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc

Description crazylegoguy 2018-04-18 19:12:22 UTC

Most of the time when I restart my computer, plasma looses the configuration of the wallpaper and tweaks I have set on my secondary monitor. When I log in I have to disable the desktop toolbox and set my wallpaper if I want it to have the correct settings. It seems to keep the settings after I upgrade the system, but it does not keep the settings when I do a normal shutdown.

Comment 1 Jarno van der Kolk 2018-05-10 17:18:31 UTC

I have this too after having a fresh install of Kubuntu 18.04. I have a laptop where I often use an external monitor as my primary monitor. I have added the cpu and memory widget to my secondary screen (i.e. laptop screen). I also set a different wallpaper.

When I re-login I might get back the original screen or I might not. It seems to be random. It seems like the ID that the secondary monitor gets assigned in the plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc file is not stable.

I'm not entirely sure how to read that file though, so I could be wrong. But if I add a clock widget after my secondary monitor failed to display my previous widgets and look at that file, I see my original widgets and wallpaper as

[Containments][2][Applets][22]
immutability=1
plugin=org.kde.plasma.systemmonitor.memory

[Containments][2][Applets][25]
immutability=1
plugin=org.kde.plasma.systemmonitor.cpu

[Containments][2][Wallpaper][org.kde.image][General]
Image=file:///usr/share/wallpapers/Dance_of_the_Spirits/contents/images/1920x1080.jpg

which all seem to be assigned [2]?

But the newly added clock widget is

[Containments][27][Applets][28]
immutability=1
plugin=org.kde.plasma.analogclock

So it's attached to [27] somehow.

Comment 2 Jarno van der Kolk 2018-05-10 17:19:50 UTC

Created attachment 112565 [details]
plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc

My plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc after adding a clock widget to the secondary monitor.

Comment 3 FiNeX 2019-01-08 10:02:44 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 393881 ***

Comment 4 Nate Graham 2021-03-11 19:01:28 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 413645 ***