Version: unknown (using 4.2.00 (KDE 4.2.0), Gentoo) Compiler: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.25-gentoo-r7-20080501 When Plasma crashes or when I run `kquitapp plasma`, there's a small but present chance that, upon restarting, Plasma will make the following irritating changes (and always the same ones, though sometimes not all of them): 1. Position my folder view in the top-left corner of my left monior (underneath my Conky window) 2. Turn off auto-hide on some of my panels 3. Move the top-right corner panel on my right-hand monitor to the top-left corner of the same monitor 4. Top-align my middle-aligned vertical panel 5. Re-position the spacer plasmoids in my panel full of launcher icons. This gets very irritating... especially in concert with another bug I voted on where adding certain widgets can crash plasma.
I have this problem too, as described by the original poster. i would like to add that plasma restores the default plasmoids (that i had removed) in the bottom bar. Kde 4.2.0, suse 11.1, x86_64
This was also reported downstream at: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463509
This happened to me after I changed the desktop to function as a folder view, and then changed it back to the default behavior in KDE 4.2.0. All the plasmoids except the panel where affected. And if I tried to move them, they instantaneously jumped back to their top-left-aligned position as soon as the mouse had left them. After a minute or so plasma crashed. When it started again, all my plasmoids where gone.
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I do not get crash, or the Crash reporter never appears. Possibly bug #196907 and bug #182499 are related.
*** Bug 204161 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 204672 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 216357 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Can you reproduce using KDE 4.4 or 4.5beta?
Created attachment 47761 [details] List of activities I'm on KDE 4.4.82svn. And there are still some weired stuff going on. See attached image. It shows that KDE has created a large list of activities (I' haven't been playing with them since last reinstall of openSUSE11.2) So its hart to tell now if fails to save it, or appends new settings on top of old, or some other bug causes this, but after crashes I randomly get a new set of widgets on default wallpaper. I didn't give much attention to this, since most of my wort is done in full screen. Should I report a new bug about self-auto-creating activities?
Before I gave up on Plasma 4.4 and switched to LXPanel, I noticed that this bug, at least for my configuration, seems mostly fixed. However, it still refused to remember that my top-right corner panel should be offset to give access to Min/Max/Close buttons on maximized windows.
I just remembered, a week ago after crash i got panels settings mixed up. 1st - a bottom one 100% width, always visible became ~30% wide auto-hiding, 2nd - a left one with playwoolf plasmoid, was ~33% wide auto-hiding, became always visible. The odd thing was, that 1st panel became a minimum height size possible, while 2nd remained the same. I'll try to reproduce this again, but this happens rarely and randomly
It sounds like what I'm experiencing but I'm not completely sure. After I lost my hard drive, I reinstalled Kubuntu and upgraded to KDE 4.4 before adding my regular user. After logging in I added the Quicklaunch and analog clock widgets. I've tried resizing (shrinking) and moving the clock but it keeps reverting to it's big size and moving to the size of the screen. It doesn't necessarily move the the same place... it just moves to the side. If I place it in the centre of the screen or the middle of the sides it doesn't seem to move or resize but as I move it to the corners it grows and snaps to the side. The Quicklaunch and the clock seem to both reposition if they are close to each other near the edge. I was using KDE 4.4 before the crash and did not experience this but it was not a new install.
How is this bug doing in 2012? In general everything looks fairly consistent in 4.7.4 to me, but rarely occurring bugs don't need to expose themselves to me per se.
This is not bug, guys, this is feature xD self.resize(x, y) i found this in "~/.kde/share/apps/plasma/plasmoids/websnippet/contents/code/main.py. #21 good luck *)
Hello! This bug report was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this bug is already resolved in Plasma 5. Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this bug report. If the issue described here is still present in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging Thanks for your understanding! Nate Graham