Bug 394706

Summary:	Global menu widget on external monitors run even without monitors conected
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Konrad <darnock>
Component:	Global Menu widget	Assignee:	Kai Uwe Broulik <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	dmitriyvalter, kdedev, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.12.5
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Konrad 2018-05-26 12:23:14 UTC

Hello.
I use global menu widget that is placed on panel in external monitor. Problem is when I don't have external monitor connected, this widget "works" taking menus from apps, but it is not visible on only available internal laptop screen.   

There is no way to access it or disable it without external monitor conected.

Konrad

Comment 1 ratijas 2022-09-21 00:37:26 UTC

Can confirm, this is still an issue. I have some panels configured for the monitors which I currently don't have physical access to, and I can't get built-in menus to show up again, unless I use the new feature "Panels and Desktops Management" window from Plasma edit mode to manually remove all the offending panels — or at least Global Menu applets from them.

Comment 2 ratijas 2022-09-22 23:12:14 UTC

*** Bug 408661 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 TraceyC 2024-09-25 17:41:02 UTC

I'm not able to reproduce this on Plasma 6.1.5 or git-master on Wayland

I followed the steps from the duplicate bug
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Plug in the second display
2. Add appmenu plasmoid e.g. as "Application menu bar" panel to both primary and secondary displays
3. Unplug the display
4. (Optional) reboot/restart DE/computer/forger about the display entirely
5. Delete any existing appmenu plasmoids available from the primary display.
6. Restart Plasma session
7. Launch any application known to work with appmenu

Launching kate, kwrite, or Dolphin, I see their menus
Also, I see their menus with or without any global menu panel / widget.
The UI has changed a lot. I'm going to close this as fixed. if you can still reproduce this on a current version of Plasma, please feel free to re-open the report.