I have an external monitor to the right of my laptop's monitor, set up as the primary screen. When I configured it originally, everything worked as expected. However, after I unplugged it and plugged it back in, the plasma panel is not displaying any popups - K menu, right-click menus, system tray popups. The mouseover tooltips do appear - but on the wrong screen. (So I suspect that the popups appear, too, but completely off the screen). Here's the xrandr output: Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 3926 x 1440, maximum 32767 x 32767 LVDS1 connected 1366x768+0+672 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 293mm x 164mm 1366x768 60.0*+ 40.0 1360x768 59.8 60.0 1024x768 60.0 800x600 60.3 56.2 640x480 59.9 DP1 connected primary 2560x1440+1366+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 597mm x 336mm 2560x1440 60.0*+ 1920x1200 59.9 1920x1080 60.0 60.0 50.0 59.9 24.0 24.0 1920x1080i 60.1 50.0 60.0 1600x1200 60.0 1680x1050 60.0 1280x1024 75.0 60.0 1280x800 59.8 1152x864 75.0 1280x720 60.0 50.0 59.9 1024x768 75.1 60.0 800x600 75.0 60.3 720x576 50.0 720x480 60.0 59.9 640x480 75.0 60.0 59.9 720x400 70.1 HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) VIRTUAL1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) Reproducible: Didn't try
Created attachment 92026 [details] Screenshot of a panel tooltip appearing on the wrong screen The panel is on the right monitor, but a system tray tooltip is displayed on the left monitor.
Actually, this affects more than just Plasma. In konsole, the menus (including the right-click menu) have the same problem - they seem to appear off-screen. However, if I start a new instance of konsole, it works fine. I guess it only affects apps that were open while I plugged in the second monitor?
can you paste the output of xprop after clicking on each of the panels?
I have essentially the same problem, except that I do not see any mouseover tooltips, but I do see popups after clicking on something. On occasion, the popups show up on the wrong screen, which may be related to the main issue. Here is the xprop output from my one panel: $ xprop _NET_WM_STRUT(CARDINAL) = 0, 0, 0, 35 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL(CARDINAL) = 0, 0, 0, 35, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1920, 3839 _KDE_SLIDE(_KDE_SLIDE) = 0xffffffff, 0x3 _KDE_NET_WM_ACTIVITIES(STRING) = "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" _NET_WM_ALLOWED_ACTIONS(ATOM) = _NET_WM_ACTION_CHANGE_DESKTOP WM_STATE(WM_STATE): window state: Normal icon window: 0x0 _NET_WM_STATE(ATOM) = _NET_WM_USER_TIME(CARDINAL) = 1539552821 _NET_WM_DESKTOP(CARDINAL) = 4294967295 _KDE_NET_WM_USER_CREATION_TIME(CARDINAL) = 1539546576 _KDE_NET_WM_BACKGROUND_CONTRAST_REGION(_KDE_NET_WM_BACKGROUND_CONTRAST_REGION) = 0x3dfe2535, 0xbc430fb5, 0xbc430fb5, 0x0, 0xbd240cba, 0x3dc480cf, 0xbd240cba, 0x0, 0xbb847cd3, 0xbb847cd3, 0x3e071faf, 0x0, 0x3e23d70b, 0x3e23d70b, 0x3e23d70b, 0x3f800000 _KDE_NET_WM_BLUR_BEHIND_REGION(CARDINAL) = _KDE_NET_WM_SHADOW(CARDINAL) = 46137369, 46137371, 46137372, 46137373, 46137374, 46137375, 46137376, 46137377, 6, 6, 6, 6 _NET_WM_ICON(CARDINAL) = Icon (16 x 16): [icon graphics removed] XdndAware(ATOM) = BITMAP WM_NAME(STRING) = _NET_WM_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = "Plasma" _MOTIF_WM_HINTS(_MOTIF_WM_HINTS) = 0x3, 0x4, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0 _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE(ATOM) = _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK _XEMBED_INFO(_XEMBED_INFO) = 0x0, 0x1 WM_CLIENT_LEADER(WINDOW): window id # 0x2c0000b WM_HINTS(WM_HINTS): Client accepts input or input focus: False Initial state is Normal State. _NET_WM_PID(CARDINAL) = 16803 WM_CLASS(STRING) = "plasmashell", "plasmashell" WM_PROTOCOLS(ATOM): protocols WM_DELETE_WINDOW, WM_TAKE_FOCUS, _NET_WM_PING WM_NORMAL_HINTS(WM_SIZE_HINTS): user specified location: 1920, 1045 user specified size: 1920 by 35 program specified minimum size: 1920 by 35 program specified maximum size: 1920 by 35 window gravity: Static
FYI, I forgot to mentions: this is with Plasma 5.4.3.
Confirmed in 5.4.3 (Debian testing). App Launcher is simply missing its popup when clicked. Taskbar right-clicks and systray hovers, etc appear on the external secondary (in my case, left) screen. This is nearly unusable.
Btw, the above is the same with the monitor plugged in since boot (not just added later). Affected elements appear in random locations on the 2nd screen, not on the 1st (primary, laptop) screen where they should (i.e. where the taskbar, etc are). If I'd known this would happen, I might've stayed in Debian stable... The only other issues I've had in KDE5 so far have been missing applets that haven't yet been migrated. This is the first outright regression I've noticed Anyway, xrandr: Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 3840 x 1080, maximum 32767 x 32767 LVDS1 connected primary 1920x1080+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 381mm x 214mm 1920x1080 60.06*+ 59.93 1680x1050 59.95 59.88 1600x1024 60.17 1400x1050 59.98 1280x1024 60.02 1440x900 59.89 1280x960 60.00 1360x768 59.80 59.96 1152x864 60.00 1024x768 60.00 800x600 60.32 56.25 640x480 59.94 DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) VGA1 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 477mm x 268mm 1920x1080 60.00*+ 1600x1200 60.00 1680x1050 59.95 1280x1024 75.02 60.02 1440x900 74.98 59.89 1280x960 60.00 1280x800 59.81 1152x864 75.00 1024x768 75.08 70.07 60.00 832x624 74.55 800x600 72.19 75.00 60.32 56.25 640x480 75.00 72.81 66.67 60.00 720x400 70.08 VIRTUAL1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
If I make the left, secondary, external screen primary - everything seems to work as wanted. However, the laptop screen is closer to me, so it should be my primary. Super simplistic guess without ref to source code: Perhaps the affected widgets are coded naively to appear on the left screen, regardless of its type or set role. Obviously, if true, this needs to be changed so that they intelligently appear in the right (normal) place on the primary screen instead. Anyway, I'll stop for now. But if anyone wants any more info that could get this patched ASAP, I'll be more than happy to help provide that.
Interestingly, after toggling BACK to the internal laptop screen as primary, things now appear there where they should: the taskbar is there, and so are all of its popups/menus. so the process here - which I hope can somehow help the experts diagnose & fix this one - was: * boot with external VGA plugged in - and laptop set as primary on last shutdown * = taskbar on laptop screen but popups appear in arbitrary places on secondary VGA * switch primary to VGA * = taskbar and popups on VGA - 'correctly' but not my desired layout * switch primary BACK to laptop * = taskbar and popups now magically appear all on laptop primary, which they should have all along cheers and hope this helps.
I found my problem, and it's incredibly stupid. I also can't believe that in all my quests to find a solution over the last 3+ months, nobody ever thought to ask "are tooltips turned on?".. !!! The closest I had come before was someone asking if the "Show Tooltips" option was turned on ** in Task Manager Settings **.. which it was. And that setting wouldn't explain why no tooltips would show up for ANY panel item, unrelated to Task Manager. Drum roll, please.... System Settings -> Workspace/Desktop Behaviour -> Workspace/Workspace Behaviour -> Show Informational Tips ARGH!!! All this time, and it was a goddamned option that was turned off! Problem solved.. Good-day gentlemen. Recommendation: In the Task Manager settings, grey-out or disable the "Show tooltips" option (with a hint saying why it's disabled) if the global "Show Informational Tips" option is turned off. A related question: In what file is the "Show information tips" option setting stored? One of the things I had done to try to resolve this issue was to wipe all my kde/qt settings files/folders and start fresh, yet that made no difference. Is the fresh-start default for this option on or off? I expect that on would be the default.
Created attachment 96438 [details] attachment-26513-0.html Nice to hear, but that unfortunately doesn't help everyone else for whom KDE 5 is doing all sorts of weird things on multi-display setups. Are these being worked on for fixing? A similar - but apparently totally unrelated - issue with notifications was getting a lot of attention, while this one hasn't even been 'confirmed' yet. What gives? It's hardly an unimportant detail if a 2nd screen is barely usable without considerable concessions. On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Ian Morgan via KDE Bugzilla < bugzilla_noreply@kde.org> wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346181 > > --- Comment #10 from Ian Morgan <penguin.wrangler@gmail.com> --- > I found my problem, and it's incredibly stupid. I also can't believe that > in > all my quests to find a solution over the last 3+ months, nobody ever > thought > to ask "are tooltips turned on?".. !!! > > The closest I had come before was someone asking if the "Show Tooltips" > option > was turned on ** in Task Manager Settings **.. which it was. And that > setting > wouldn't explain why no tooltips would show up for ANY panel item, > unrelated to > Task Manager. > > Drum roll, please.... > > System Settings -> Workspace/Desktop Behaviour -> Workspace/Workspace > Behaviour > -> Show Informational Tips > > ARGH!!! All this time, and it was a goddamned option that was turned off! > > Problem solved.. Good-day gentlemen. > > Recommendation: In the Task Manager settings, grey-out or disable the "Show > tooltips" option (with a hint saying why it's disabled) if the global "Show > Informational Tips" option is turned off. > > A related question: In what file is the "Show information tips" option > setting > stored? One of the things I had done to try to resolve this issue was to > wipe > all my kde/qt settings files/folders and start fresh, yet that made no > difference. Is the fresh-start default for this option on or off? I expect > that > on would be the default. > > -- > You are receiving this mail because: > You are on the CC list for the bug. >
I have this issue now too. Plasma popups appear on the wrong screen, sometimes don't appear at all.
Can confirm this on Ubuntu 16.04, Plasma 5.5.5.
Is the bug is still pertinent?
Created attachment 111239 [details] schreenshot showing items in wrong side I can confirm this bug is still present in plasma 5.12.2 OS: KDE Neon 5.12 user KDE Plasma version 5.12.2 KDE framework 5.43.0 QT 5.10.0 Kernel 4.13.0-36 I use a TV as a secondary HDMI display (located to the left), and laptop is the primary screen. all the pop-ups of the plasma panel are shown in the wrong screen. I started with this problem with the 5.11 update. (wasn't presented by the time I started used KDE neon in December of 2017, or before, when I was on latest Kubuntu 16.04). In the KDE Neon telegram chat, someone pointed that restoring the layout from the theme will fix the issue, but you will lose any personalization made to the plasma bar. After further testing, it seems that activating the auto-hide option will bring back this problem if you log out and log back in (which sooner or latter you will have to) I've tried adding new widgets or changing the configuration of the current ones, and this doesn't seem to activate the bug, so far, I only tried the auto-hide to activate it. Also, this seems related to this bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344706 Please let me know which logs can I attach to help and kill this bug.
still present in 5.12.3
Same issue on Plasma 5.12.6. Often loose external monitor desktop configuration either partially or completely. Using the Icon-only Task Manager on left plus an empty panel on the top setup with a global menu and system System Tray Setting. Processer:Intel Core I7-8650U Graphics: Intel Graphics 620 OS: Ubuntu 18.04, KDE Plasma 5.12.6, 64-bit Kernel: 4.15.0-33-generic KDE Framework: 5.44.0 Qt: 5.95
Is anyone able to reproduce this in Plasma 5.22? I am not.
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