Bug 469276

Summary:	Desktop icons reset positions to alphabetical order at random time when fullscreen app is open
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Muhammed Taha <mt190502>
Component:	Folder	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	dashonwwIII, f.alexander.wilms, hein, kdedev, linuxboy, n2thew, nate, notmart, postix
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.27.4
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Muhammed Taha 2023-05-02 16:56:22 UTC

SUMMARY
Hello. I'm using Fedora 38 + KDE 5.27.4. I am coding in full screen. Sometimes when I come to the desktop, the icons are fine as in the 1st picture. Sometimes the icons are lined up to the left as in the 2nd picture. I couldn't catch any error log because I don't know what time this error occurred while writing code

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Use any app full screen
2. Error occurs or not

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Fedora 38
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.105.0
Qt Version: 5.15.9

IMAGES
https://cdn.mtaha.dev/1.png
https://cdn.mtaha.dev/2.png

Comment 1 Muhammed Taha 2023-05-07 10:34:47 UTC

The same problem reoccurred today and I got journalctl output
https://cdn.mtaha.dev/log2.txt

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2023-05-15 23:16:11 UTC

A few questions:
1. Do you have your icons configured to arrange "top-to-bottom" and "align left"?
2. Is there any chance that any of the full screen apps you're using are changing the resolution of the screen?
3. If you make your panel auto-hide for a while for testing purposes, does the problem stop happening?

Comment 3 Muhammed Taha 2023-05-23 09:02:13 UTC

(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #2)
> A few questions:
> 1. Do you have your icons configured to arrange "top-to-bottom" and "align
> left"?
> 2. Is there any chance that any of the full screen apps you're using are
> changing the resolution of the screen?
> 3. If you make your panel auto-hide for a while for testing purposes, does
> the problem stop happening?

1- Yes. The same error occurs in both types
2- No
3- No

Comment 4 Muhammed Taha 2023-05-23 09:03:02 UTC

I got the kde 5.27.5 update a while ago, but the same problem persists.

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2023-05-23 17:32:27 UTC

Thanks. Does the issue stop occurring if you change the arrangement setting from "Top to bottom" to "Left to right"?

Comment 6 Muhammed Taha 2023-05-23 17:36:53 UTC

(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #5)
> Thanks. Does the issue stop occurring if you change the arrangement setting
> from "Top to bottom" to "Left to right"?

No, the icons are lined up from left to right (in a random time)

Comment 7 Nate Graham 2023-05-24 15:01:02 UTC

Darn.

Comment 8 Nate Graham 2024-06-28 19:28:55 UTC

Lowering priority for now since unfortunately this isn't actionable at the moment. We need to schedule a rewrite of some of the flaky code here.

Comment 9 TraceyC 2024-07-31 23:41:11 UTC

There are multiple bug reports about this behavior. I'm using 468546 as the main bug report.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 468546 ***