Bug 487616

Summary:	Logout / Restart / Shutdown not working with tiling window manager (X11)
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	hiphish
Component:	Session Management	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	REOPENED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	asturm, e33v1535, kdedev, natalie_clarius, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	6.2.1
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description hiphish 2024-05-27 08:54:35 UTC

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SUMMARY

I use Plasma with BSPWM as my window manager under X11. Under BSPWM logout, shutdown and restart from the application menu or dashboard do not work. I get the semi-transparent overlay that asks me for confirmation, but nothing happens afterwards. The only way I can shut down the machine is by running `sudo poweroff` from a terminal.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE

I use the following shell script to launch the session (`/usr/local/bin/plasma-bspwm.sh`):

    #!/bin/sh
    export KDEWM=/usr/bin/bspwm
    /usr/bin/startplasma-x11

To register this session I have the following XDG desktop entry file (`/usr/share/xsessions`):

    [Desktop Entry]
    Type=XSession
    Exec=/usr/local/bin/plasma-bspwm.sh
    TryExec=/usr/bin/startplasma-x11
    DesktopNames=KDE
    Name=Plasma (BSPWM)
    X-KDE-PluginInfo-Version=5.22.5


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Linux/KDE Plasma: Void Linux
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.1.0
Qt Version: 6.6.0


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

All these actions work fine when using X11 with KWin or under Wayland, which is why I think that this is a separate issue from 481938. The two services mentioned in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481938#c5 do exist on my system.

Comment 1 e33v1535 2024-06-06 10:55:24 UTC

I can confirm this happens with other window managers too (in my case Awesome WM on Arch Linux; a Google search also gives results for a thread on Manjaro forum where they've the same problem on i3).

Comment 2 Andreas Sturmlechner 2024-09-21 08:33:33 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 488853 ***

Comment 3 hiphish 2024-10-15 21:52:21 UTC

This is still happening on 6.2.0 for me.

Comment 4 e33v1535 2024-10-19 00:46:56 UTC

6.2.1 hasn't solved it either.

This seems to be a different issue than the purported duplicate anyway because when shutting down (or rebooting, etc) I can still see the wallpaper and invoke a terminal and everything. In the other bug the screen is black and the tty is completely unresponsive.

Comment 5 hiphish 2024-10-20 21:42:30 UTC

In my case the wallpaper and all panels are gone, the screen is black, but I can still open a terminal (using Meta + Enter, a key binding I have set up in SXHKD). The window manager remains working, but the Plasma desktop is gone.

Comment 6 hiphish 2024-11-16 20:59:26 UTC

I noticed that if I press the power button on my tower the "power" overlay or whatever you call it (the semi-transparent overlay with the "shutdown", "restart" and so on buttons) does come up and the computer gets shut down properly. It's only when when I explicitly click "shutdown", "log out" or "reboot" from the applications menu widget that the problem occurs.

In my system settings -> "power management" -> "When power button pressed" I have selected "show logout screen", so this behaviour seems to be wrong as well.