Bug 314831 - Aggregated notifications are sometimes displayed top-left instead near the taskbar
Summary: Aggregated notifications are sometimes displayed top-left instead near the ta...
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: plasma4
Classification: Unmaintained
Component: notifications (show other bugs)
Version: 4.10.0
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Marco Martin
URL:
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Reported: 2013-02-10 15:10 UTC by Damien Gombault
Modified: 2018-06-08 18:16 UTC (History)
17 users (show)

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Top-left notifications (2.51 MB, image/png)
2013-02-10 15:11 UTC, Damien Gombault
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MIssing icon (75.63 KB, image/png)
2013-02-10 15:12 UTC, Damien Gombault
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This system tray is displayed at the top left corner when the panel's height is low. (49.69 KB, image/png)
2013-02-25 20:26 UTC, Roney Gomes
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Screenshot for the invisible widgets. (31.55 KB, image/png)
2013-02-25 20:27 UTC, Roney Gomes
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Notifications on top left (665.85 KB, image/png)
2013-03-17 17:48 UTC, Nicolas Bigaouette
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Power management applet (75.11 KB, image/png)
2013-09-26 07:43 UTC, Michal Hlavac
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Description Damien Gombault 2013-02-10 15:10:46 UTC
Aggregated notifications are sometimes displayed top-left instead near the taskbar (attachment 1 [details]).

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
I don't know how to reproduce it currently.
I have this bug on 2 computers : one with Arch Linux packages, the other with Fedora 18 KDE Repo (http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/).

The single notification is diplayed at the right place but not the aggragated notifications.

I notice when the bug occurs, there is no icon for the Notifications button (attachment 2 [details]).
Comment 1 Damien Gombault 2013-02-10 15:11:46 UTC
Created attachment 77090 [details]
Top-left notifications
Comment 2 Damien Gombault 2013-02-10 15:12:14 UTC
Created attachment 77091 [details]
MIssing icon
Comment 3 Guillaume DE BURE 2013-02-18 17:44:37 UTC
Hit by this too, but only on newly created accounts, and it is permanent, unlike the original poster... Accounts that were created before 4.10 are not affected.
Comment 4 Guillaume Castagnino 2013-02-18 22:43:32 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Hit by this too, but only on newly created accounts, and it is permanent,
> unlike the original poster... Accounts that were created before 4.10 are not
> affected.

Not here. My account is created since... dunno, probably 4.0. And I'm affected too. All notifications (kmail, konsole, firefox...) stay at the top left corner of the desktop just like in Damien's screenshot.
Comment 5 Guillaume DE BURE 2013-02-19 06:59:43 UTC
Reading the names of people impacted by this bug, I infer we are all french speaking... I wondered whether this could be linked to that, and changed my KDE language to english : bug is gone !

Guys, can you reproduce this behaviour too ? If yes, there might be something in the translation of the systray or notification plasmoid that confuses it, I'll try to investigate further.
Comment 6 Guillaume Castagnino 2013-02-19 07:17:04 UTC
Confirmed here too. Switching to english solves it !
Comment 7 Guillaume Castagnino 2013-02-24 22:44:54 UTC
I just noticed one thing : I have found one way to "fix" this without changing the locale.

I did this :
1) disable the "restore the manually saved session" and set to "start an empty session"
2) stop kde session
3) rm .kde/share/config/session/*
4) restart kde, this starts a new clean session. The notification icon is back and notifications are now attached to the taskbar icon again as it should be. I can enable back the session to manually saved, problem fixed.

So may be an issue with old saved sessions in french only ? (are any other locales affected ?)
Comment 8 Roney Gomes 2013-02-25 20:26:07 UTC
Created attachment 77578 [details]
This system tray is displayed at the top left corner when the panel's height is low.

Same problem here, but neither the local reset hack nor the session management cleanup worked.

For me, it seems to be a problem in the panel layout. Because if I change the panel's height to a higher value, the notification bar gets gradually resized as well, getting back to its original place. 

Also, I can't add any widgets to the panel,  they're now invisible in the widgets bar. See the attached screenshot.
Comment 9 Roney Gomes 2013-02-25 20:27:37 UTC
Created attachment 77579 [details]
Screenshot for the invisible widgets.
Comment 10 Guillaume DE BURE 2013-02-26 11:21:32 UTC
(In reply to comment #7)
> I just noticed one thing : I have found one way to "fix" this without
> changing the locale.
> 
> I did this :
> 1) disable the "restore the manually saved session" and set to "start an
> empty session"
> 2) stop kde session
> 3) rm .kde/share/config/session/*
> 4) restart kde, this starts a new clean session. The notification icon is
> back and notifications are now attached to the taskbar icon again as it
> should be. I can enable back the session to manually saved, problem fixed.
> 
> So may be an issue with old saved sessions in french only ? (are any other
> locales affected ?)

Hmm, the session workaround has no effect here. Wow, this bug has a really weird behaviour...
Comment 11 denebe 2013-03-15 07:22:23 UTC
Opensuse 12.3 / kde 4.10.0 / 4.10.1

I have also oft this bug.

Up left of the screen, the display of notification is not good, with 4.10.0 and 4.10.1.

I have erased my home/.kde . The notification has worked just for a while. After this, this problem is back.
Comment 12 Maxime Chassagneux 2013-03-15 15:22:52 UTC
I had this bug and when I upgrade my config from 4Go to 6Go of RAM, the problem was gone... really strange...
Comment 13 Nicolas Bigaouette 2013-03-17 17:48:56 UTC
Created attachment 78136 [details]
Notifications on top left

I have the same issue. Using a new kde profile on ArchLinux x86_64 with KDE 4.10.1.
Using a french canadian profile (LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8 in /etc/locale.conf), I haven't touched KDE's language setting at all.
Comment 14 Damien Gombault 2013-03-22 06:55:42 UTC
A workaround for this bug can be found here : http://victorhckinthefreeworld.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/opensuse-12-3-quitar-notificaciones-de-kde-en-la-esquina-superior-izquierda/ (spanish page, you can use Google Translation).
Comment 15 Philippe ROUBACH 2013-03-22 08:35:57 UTC
hello i found another pb when someone assumes this is a french language pb

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298476

in comment 18 and 28 another hypothesis is assumed : digikam or qt has a sizing pb

perhaps we can assume same hypothesis : kde notifier or qt  has a pb to put at the right place its windows
Comment 16 Oleg Morozov 2013-04-10 10:21:48 UTC
Same here - no icon and top-left notifications on two computers with openSUSE 12.3 KDE 4.10.1.

Tried clear session but didn't help.
Comment 17 Alejandro Lorenzo 2013-04-11 10:36:50 UTC
I am having this bug only when using the translation to spanish.

If i choose to start KDE everything is normal.

In my setup, i have KDE 4.10.2 but the kde-l10n-es package i am using is 4.9.5 ; this is, it is not in sync with the release. Could be this the problem? Some untranslated string is breaking something?
Comment 18 Alejandro Lorenzo 2013-04-16 07:59:59 UTC
Also happens with up to date kde-l10n-es package (4.10.2)
Comment 19 Hervé 2013-06-09 22:32:47 UTC
Same problem with archlinux x86_64 and KDE 4.10.4 on a fresh install. Notifications osd is on left top corner and the icon disappear of the box. If i place the notification widget on my desktop, icons work fine but i have 2 osd. One at the right place and a second at the top left corner.
Notice the tpo left corner notification look strange, too much transparencies.
Comment 20 Michal Hlavac 2013-06-28 06:09:38 UTC
I am also affected by this issue and I am using openSuse 12.3 with Slovak language
Comment 21 Michal Hlavac 2013-09-26 07:43:56 UTC
Created attachment 82496 [details]
Power management applet

This screenshot is maybe related with this issue.
Comment 22 Damien Gombault 2013-09-26 16:44:17 UTC
I also have the power management applet bug with french locales.
The applet is corrupted in the menu like attachment 82496 [details].

Sometimes, the power management applet is displayed top left, corrupted like the aggregated notification one.
Comment 23 Philippe ROUBACH 2014-08-24 11:20:21 UTC
opensuse 13.2 x86_64
kde 4.13.80

clipboard , kmix notification is displayed at the upper right corner
but not plasma-nm
Comment 24 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 18:16:30 UTC
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 has already been 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