Version: (using KDE 4.1.0) OS: Linux It is quite nice that it's possible to rotate the plasmoids, but it's useless as long as the rotation isn't saved. After every restart of KDE the plasmoids are in the upright position again.
After changing your plasmoids orientation, type in a terminal : kquitapp plasma then restart it (just typing: plasma) Were the settings saved ?
Remark: I don't know why, but now the rotation is saved. I now have a parameter named transform in my plasma-appletsrc. But from time to time the tasks-plasmoid still comes up upright instead of turned left by 90°. Maybe in 1 out off 20 restarts of KDE.
I see the same problem. See also: http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=379808 I found this with KDE 4.0 but can still reproduce with KDE 4.1: - turn the applets to some tilted orientations - kquitapp plasma; sleep 1; /usr/bin/plasma & Doesn’t happen always but very often. There are now additional strange effects when I do that though: - plasma seems to use a lot of virtual memory, 3657 m for me at the moment. Is that intentional?? - restarting plasma with the above procedure is very slow, it takes about one minute on my machine - I see some weird messages on standard output when restarting plasma: mfabian@magellan:~$ kquitapp plasma; sleep 1; /usr/bin/plasma & Object::disconnect: No such slot QObject::dataUpdated(QString,Plasma::DataEngine::Data) [1] 21648 mfabian@magellan:~$ X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 18 (X_ChangeProperty) Resource id: 0x2c00055 plasma(21648): Communication problem with "plasma" , it probably crashed. Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken." " X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 18 (X_ChangeProperty) Resource id: 0x2c000de QDBusConnection received a message of type 3 that it shouldn't have error: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown" "The name :1.88 was not provided by any .service files" [1]+ Exit 255 /usr/bin/plasma mfabian@magellan:~$