Created attachment 59894 [details] page in space wasting layout Version: unspecified (using KDE 4.6.2) OS: Linux I have a quite high panel at the top of the screen. Usually the pager with four desktops displays fits nicely in a square grid. Sometimes it switches to a space wasting layout which one desktop beneath the other. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: I have no idea on what circumstances this happens. Last time I think it happened after I restarted plasma-desktop to workaround some gfx corruption of the OSS radeon driver with KMS and Gallium 0.4 I think. Actual Results: The pager with four desktops displays usually fits the four desktop into one grid like +---+---+ | | | +---+---+ | | | +---+---+ Expected Results: But sometimes it thinks that this layout does not fit and layouts like: +-------+-------+-------+-------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +-------+-------+-------+-------+ wasting a lot of space in the panel (see attached image). Logging out and in or restarting plasma-desktop does not help. Removing the applet and adding it back also did not help. I think what worked last time was removing the applet, logging out, logging in and then add it again.
Bug 276166 and maybe Bug 273695 seem to be duplicates?
This seems to happen occasionally when rebooting. It's not consistent but as someone who turns his computer off every night I see this behavior often enough.
I think i resolved this. I found that maximum number of lines for the desktop grid was set to one. When I set it to two I get back the nice square grid. I do not remember having set it this way. But nonetheless I set this to resolved. Should the setting change without me doing anything, I can still reopen the bug. Thanks.