Since some time, I think since version 5.5, kscreen likes to spam the logs with the message: kscreen: Failed to retrieve current config: "Backend invalidated" and sometimes kscreen: Failed to retrieve current config: "Failed to prepare backend" This was mentioned in other bugs, but since I don't see their effects, I guess this is an independent issue. There is no apparent effect noticeable, everything seems to continue working. Setting up the screen layout works fine. Yet kscreen for some reason likes to push out this message every 10 s. Reproducible: Always
Same here with version 5.5.5. My ~/.xsession-errors gets packed with those messages and grows large. The strange thing is that those messages continue after uninstalling kscreen with apt-get purge kscreen and rebooting. I also added the file ~/.config/QtProject/qtlogging.ini with the following content: [Rules] kscreen.debug=false Lots of messages from kscreen disappeared but kscreen: Failed to retrieve current config: "Backend invalidated" kscreen: Failed to retrieve current config: "Failed to prepare backend" remain.
I don't find the messages anymore in the logs, so I guess it's been fixed at some point.