Bug 412637

Summary:	Panel resets upon restarting Plasma
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	James Th <james>
Component:	Panel	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	nate, plasma-bugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.16.5
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	journalctl-widget-reset-issue.txt

Description James Th 2019-10-05 15:13:19 UTC

SUMMARY
I currently have the application bar at the top of my screen, and I have various widgets e.g. system panel, time, search etc which I manually located to the top right of my screen.  My application launcher is located at the top left of my screen.  However, When I reboot my laptop, all widgets end up on the left side of the screen, so I need to manually move them back.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. move your application bar to the top of the screen, and move widgets manually to the right side of the screen.
2. restart your laptop/PC

OBSERVED RESULT
system tray, search, calendar etc move to the left of my screen next to my application launcher.  

EXPECTED RESULT
Remain on the top right of my screen upon reboot.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: openSUSE TW
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.16.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.62.0
Qt Version: 5.13.1

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 James Th 2019-10-05 16:09:55 UTC

Created attachment 123037 [details]
journalctl-widget-reset-issue.txt

i have tried the following, and the issue still occurs:
1) ctlr+Alt+F1, then ctrl+alt+f7 issue still remains.
2) created a new test user, and issue remians (journalctl -b attached for that user)

Comment 2 James Th 2019-10-06 10:56:58 UTC

I also tried to logon using wayland yesterday, and I receive the same problem.

Comment 3 James Th 2019-10-07 14:41:33 UTC

(In reply to James Th from comment #2)
> I also tried to logon using wayland yesterday, and I receive the same
> problem.

i moved my application bar to the bottom of the screen, and it works correctly.  So it might be something to do with it being at the top of the screen, which makes it behave differently.

I also noticed that should I have my application launcher at the top left of the screen, when I open something such as Kate, then the icon moves along so that it is always to the right of the kate menus.  Happy to screen shot this, if it would be useful?

thanks, in advance!

Comment 4 Christoph Feck 2019-10-10 14:17:15 UTC

You need to insert a spacer, because widgets are layouted from left to right. The taskmanager on the bottom panel takes all remaining width, so there is no need to insert a spacer there.

Comment 5 Christoph Feck 2019-11-06 00:07:04 UTC

Did comment #4 help to resolve this issue?

Comment 6 Christoph Feck 2019-12-01 15:59:29 UTC

No feedback; assuming it is a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 384135 ***