Bug 226178 - Problems accessing plasma dashboard in KDE SC 4.4
Summary: Problems accessing plasma dashboard in KDE SC 4.4
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 226281
Alias: None
Product: plasma4
Classification: Plasma
Component: dashboard (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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: 226672 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2010-02-10 19:20 UTC by Bruno Almeida
Modified: 2010-02-14 10:24 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Bruno Almeida 2010-02-10 19:20:16 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.4.0)
Compiler:          gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.4.1 [gcc-4_4-branch revision 150839]
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    openSUSE RPMs

When I access the dashboard, either moving the mouse to a screen corner or with Ctrl+F12, I noticed there's a new process in the task manager called "plasma-desktop".

The problem is when I access the dashboard when other applications are in the foreground, this "plasma-desktop" process doesn't have precedence over them. This means that in this case I have to click the "plasma-desktop" process to see the dashboard.

This only seems to happen if I access the dashboard through a screen corner (I have it configured to the bottom-right corner). Ctrl+F12 works as expected. Also, after using Ctrl+F12 the mouse corner shortcut seems to work correctly for a while, but the problem starts happening again shortly.

Additional information: my dashboard is configured to show a separate set of elements.
Comment 1 Bruno Almeida 2010-02-10 19:31:04 UTC 
Also, the Analog Clock plasmoid I have in the dashboard sometimes isn't drawn correctly. I have to resize it for it to appear again.

This happens with several Plasma Themes, including Air. I first noticed this behavior in 4.4 RC 1.
Comment 2 Ryan Rix 2010-02-11 03:34:45 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Also, the Analog Clock plasmoid I have in the dashboard sometimes isn't drawn
> correctly. I have to resize it for it to appear again.

Feel free to CC to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225824


Reassigning bug to plasma/dashboard, but wondering if this is more a kwin issue...
Comment 3 Dominik Tritscher 2010-02-14 10:20:05 UTC 
I can confirm this issue using KDE SC 4.4 from the official Kubuntu PPA.
It only happens when I call the dashboard via screen corner and another application has the focus. After calling the dashboard and clicking on it, it comes to foreground and hiding/calling it again still brings it to foreground till another application becomes the focus.
My dashboard doesn't show a seperate activity.
Comment 4 Dominik Tritscher 2010-02-14 10:23:42 UTC 
I just noticed that there is another report about the same issue, that is also holding a screenshot.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 226281 ***
Comment 5 Dominik Tritscher 2010-02-14 10:24:46 UTC 
*** Bug 226672 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***