Bug 400694

Summary:	shortcut for "Screen Layout Selection OSD"
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	slartibart70
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugseforuns
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.13.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description slartibart70 2018-11-05 11:01:28 UTC

There is a new 'Screen Layout Selection' OSD, but this dialog only appears randomly (e.g. when attaching a new, previously unknown monitor). Already known (previously connected) monitors won't show this OSD ever again

Questions:
- how can one make this OSD appear by a keyboard shortcut?

I can of course open systemsettings an select the appropriate options, but if we have such a nice popup then we should also make it appear by a shortcut?

Testing on a lenovo t470 by pressing Fn-F7 doesn't do anything, my search through the global and standard shortcut list in systemsettings also didn't reveal any option to setup?

Any help is appreciated

Comment 1 Patrick Silva 2018-11-05 11:44:29 UTC

meta+p works on my laptop.

Comment 2 Martin Flöser 2018-11-05 13:35:19 UTC

This is a bug tracker and not a user support forum. Please do not ask user support questions in a bug tracker.

Comment 3 slartibart70 2018-11-07 11:41:12 UTC

maybe you are right.
BUT... this feature should be available with typical keyboard shortcuts, like Fn-Fx shortcuts and the like (depending on the laptop used)

So, plasma does not have a setting to define the shortcuts, nor does this popup react on typical shortcuts by default.

For me this smells like a bug (and yes, i could have used a different wording)

Comment 4 Martin Flöser 2018-11-07 12:01:26 UTC

This is a bug tracker and not a user support forum. Please do not ask user support questions in a bug tracker. Please do not reopen the bug.

Comment 5 slartibart70 2018-11-07 12:09:31 UTC

Martin, i'm pretty aware of you, your role and the work you do *which i really do appreciate*

Still, responding with text-templates is not really helpful.
Do you consider this a bug or not?
If not, do you consider this documentation-worthy? If so, then where the *f* are these docs?
New functionality is always hard to follow (esp. for externals) and blogs (like Nate Grahams blog) do help a lot - but they are not and will never be 'complete' or be a replacement for proper docs

Comment 6 Martin Flöser 2018-11-07 19:20:24 UTC

KWin is not responsible for this OSD. So why do you ask in a bug report against KWin about unrelated functionality? Please use a user support form where this belongs. We cannot answer every question our users have. Thank you.