Bug 348936 - Kscreen multiscreen support woes
Summary: Kscreen multiscreen support woes
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 345544
Alias: None
Product: KScreen
Classification: Plasma
Component: kded (show other bugs)
Version: 5.3.0
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR grave
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Daniel Vrátil
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Reported: 2015-06-09 17:44 UTC by Jean-Christophe Baptiste
Modified: 2015-10-30 02:07 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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plasmashell stacktrace (25.81 KB, text/plain)
2015-06-10 07:58 UTC, Jean-Christophe Baptiste
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Description Jean-Christophe Baptiste 2015-06-09 17:44:39 UTC
The behavior of kscreen is so erratic at every plug in/out event that I don't know by what to start:

- no recalling screen configurations per model (e.g. external monitor on the right side at office, upper side at home)
- not detecting some plug in event
- sometimes leading to a black main screen (suddenly checked as deactivated)
- most of time, after resume, main screen is blank and you need an external monitor to actually get something (very convenient during a trip)
- sometimes needing double clicking on "apply" to get what you asked
- sometimes a total misalignment of screens
- ... and probably many more buggy situation that I am forgeting

It is really catastrophic and is a major regression compared to KDE 4. We are many years back in term of Linux multiscreen support !

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Aleix Pol 2015-06-10 05:01:32 UTC
Assigning to KScreen, which is where the most important stuff is going on. Some different stuff going on there, maybe some of them are part of kwin.
Comment 2 Jean-Christophe Baptiste 2015-06-10 07:58:18 UTC
Created attachment 93101 [details]
plasmashell stacktrace

I am not sure if this is linked, but here is a stacktrace that I got after unplugging my external screen.
I could reproduce it every time I did that.
Comment 3 David Edmundson 2015-06-10 14:26:23 UTC
More info on that bug in 345544

It's in Qt. A fix is there, but not released

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 345544 ***