If you abort KDE with applications open on desktop 1, upon restart the applications will open on desktop 2. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Specifically, open and minimize a firefox window on desktop 1, then open a few konsole windows. In one of the konsole windows, su to root and issue "systemctl reboot". When the reboot completes,log back into KDE,and the interrupted apps will be opened on desktop 2. Actual Results: Apps open on desktop 2 Expected Results: Apps open on desktop 1
Can you name the KDE applications that are affected by this bug? From what I see, each application individually remembers on which screen it was closed.
The only ones I can remember for sure are konsole and firefox. Normally, when I shut down, I close everything on the higher desktops (2, 3, ...), but on desktop 1 I have konsole windows open and firefox running minimized. I leave firefox minimized so that after reboot it will detect that it aborted and restore all my regular tabs, and I issue the "systemctl reboot" from konsole. This happens for sure on my laptop, but I reboot my desktop machine infrequently enough that I can't recall whether it happens there or not. So this may be the result of some configuration difference.
Regarding Konsole windows, do you have them opened on multiple desktops? Konsole is actually a single process application, so if you have them on multiple desktops, it probably restores to where its last window was opened. For the Firefox issue, please report it to Firefox developers.
(In reply to comment #3) > Regarding Konsole windows, do you have them opened on multiple desktops? > Konsole is actually a single process application, so if you have them on > multiple desktops, it probably restores to where its last window was opened. If you're talking about opening multiple independent instances of konsole, yes, I do often have konsole instances open on multiple desktops. If you're talking about opening one instance of konsole and flagging it to appear on multiple desktops, I've never done that. > > For the Firefox issue, please report it to Firefox developers. I'll hold off until it's clear what konsole is doing. It's suspicious that two (or more) apps should be exhibiting the same behavior if there isn't a common thread. However, it may well be that FF doesn't care which desktop it restarts on, and ends up on desktop 2 just because konsole has made 2 the current desktop by starting there. I'll try to do some tests to dig into both of these.
Can you please confirm this is still an issue on current KDE Plasma and Konsole.
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I had forgotten all about this. These days, what I describe here doesn't happen. In almost all cases, konsole windows open where they should. VERY infrequently after a rough shutdown of Plasma the restart will dump every open window onto desktop 1, but after a reboot it's back to normal. I'll close this as FIXED.