After today's update from openSUSE's K:U:F repo (which tracks master versions of all Plasma components), I get the following regression: Steps to reproduce: - use an external monitor as the primary display - disable the internal panel using kcm kscreen - logout, then from root terminal delete plasma*rc files to get a clean state - login Actual result: - Black screen with only the Desktop menu toolbox visible, no panel Expected results: - Screen with default panel Also, after manually restoring Panel and Wallpaper, a subsequent logout/login gets me the blank state again (without any panel); the configuration is not applied.
*may* have been fixed by http://commits.kde.org/plasma-workspace/7dec22733fc3fa75243f8c318a21ba7c77f00ef8 further testing needed
Nope, still does not work. I deleted plasmashellrc and the plasma-*applets*rc file, and the first time I logged in, I see a black screen with no panel, only the "burger" menu in the top left corner, but clicking it (or the right-click desktop menu) did nothing. Then I killed plasmashell, and restarted it, then at least I had the plasma menus back, but no panel. I added a default panel, but after logout and login, the panel is missing again. Interestingly, when I clicked the Add Widgets dialog, I see 2 running instances of the default widgets, so Plasma did try to create a panel the first time, but either it ended up on the disabled screen, or otherwise the panel containment did not make it to the primary screen. Also, I see references to both "lastScreen=1" and "lastScreen=-1" in the configuration it creates, but from what I understand, my screen should be screen 0, because it is the only screen?
*** Bug 366774 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is still happening with latest Plasma repositories from K:U:F on Tumbleweed. (both issues: no initial panel, and lost panel+configuration after logout) Additional information: I found out that after manually creating a plasma configuration with a panel, I need to kill plasma and restart it after each reboot, then the configuration is applied. It may be possible, that my monitor goes too soon into power-saving mode, and plasma does not notice that it comes back when kscreen enables it?
(And I just see that the initial configuration lacks an "Add Panel" entry in the burger menu, so if I had not saved my previous configuration, I could not use Plasma at all)
Forget comment #5 ... the desktop RMB menu has "Add Panel". I think there was some work to hide some panel types from the burger menu.
The initially created plasmashellrc file lists both the internal display "0=eDP1" as well as the external monitor "1=DP1" in section [ScreenConnectors]. After killing and restarting plasmashell, only the internal display is listed "0=eDP1", which is wrong, because the internal display is disabled.
Can you give me a link to the SuSE ISO which has this problem?
I don't think there is an ISO. Tumbleweed is a rolling distribution, and K:U:F is an additional repository that tracks daily master versions.
both standard and empty panels should be back in the menu now, but unrelated with the main configuration loss problem https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=plasma-workspace.git&a=commit&h=f7469f6f0f645836122febaa74e4bb601b8cdea1 could have made things a bit better with panel configs, still not sure what's up with the desktop
The recent commits fixed this issue for me. Both with a clean configuration (initial start) as well as with a configured Plasma shell I now get a default panel on the external screen.