Please mark as duplicate if needed. Description: Notes plasmoid (org.kde.plasma.notes) tend to disappear on the desktop if screen resolution has changed. Another alternative behavior I've seen is that width of a note window may change. Here's the thing: those notes are not actually deleted but instead they either have 0 width/height, are outside of the screen area (which I doubt) or something equivalent. Though I can't see notes plasmoid on my desktop, I can still see their data in $HOME/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc file and in $HOME/.local/share/plasma_notes folder. This is very annoying bug because every time I need to change the resolution, I can't trust all my notes widgets will be visible anymore. The only action I can take is to take out notes text data from files located at $HOME/.local/share/plasma_notes folder, delete specific notes data in plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc file and create a new note widget, until the disappearance happens again. There is at least one KDE forum topic opened, addressing this specific issue: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=289&t=139360 Is there any way I can actually lock width/height of a widget. In /applets/notes/package/contents/ui/main.qml there are fields such as: width: units.gridUnit * 14 height: units.gridUnit * 14 Which might be tweaked or "locked" somehow?
Cannot confirm on Arch Linux, plasma 5.12.4. Notes widget remains on my screen after I change resolution from 1080p to 720p and vice-versa.
I'm on 5.13.5 This always happens to me too. I keep my pain panel on the left of the screen and my widgets/plasmoids on the right. Anything that changes my screen resolution completely shuffles and resizes my right plasmoids all out of whack whether "Lock Widgets" is enabled or not. Even if they're locked, I need to unlock and move them back to where they should go. Even my login screen is 1080 resolution but after login it goes to 4k, which means every login shuffles my widgets which are clearly anchored to the top right side of the screen. I would think LOCK WIDGETS would lock them no matter what, but QT still tries to shuffle them to fit smaller resolutions. Highly frustrating. I tried digging through the code to see if QT allowed a true "LOCK" option on things like this but sadly don't have the time to sort through so much code right now. Maybe someone else out there has some QT/KDE/Widget insights? This has always been an issue for me going back to KDE4 sadly and now that I'm on a 4k screen I'd love a fix :) Thx
Works for me. Is this reproducible for anyone in Plasma 5.17 or the 5.18 beta?
Created attachment 125363 [details] Screenshot 0 Widgets set how I want them. 4k resolution.
Created attachment 125364 [details] Screenshot 1 Resolution changed from 4k smaller.
Created attachment 125365 [details] Screenshot 2 Resolution changed back to 4k and now widgets are all over the place.
Same behaviour whether or not widgets are locked.
Dear Bug Submitter, This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 15 days. Please provide the requested information as soon as possible and set the bug status as REPORTED. Due to regular bug tracker maintenance, if the bug is still in NEEDSINFO status with no change in 30 days the bug will be closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information. For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging If you have already provided the requested information, please mark the bug as REPORTED so that the KDE team knows that the bug is ready to be confirmed. Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Posted info but didn't change status.
Thanks boeroboy for your activity regarding to the issue. The original opening post covered only the "Notes" widget/plasmoid but, according to your screenshots, it seems other widgets are affected as well. So, is the issue more wide spread than I originally assumed? Your KDE/Plasma version? I currently use outdated KDE/Plasma environment and due to this reason I can't either confirm or rule out the issue on newer KDE/Plasma builds.
Yes as I've used this desktop layout back through KDE4. As plasmoids are anchored to the top left corner, any plasmoid on the right or bottom of the screen that would get cut off during a screen resolution change gets moved and shuffled and resized awkwardly to fit on the screen (locked or not). If QT doesn't support a native fix it would be nice if you could save/restore layouts of a panel. Sort of like saved channels on a radio. If I could just restore my favourite layout, I'd be happy with it.
jboero z640 ~ $ sudo dnf info plasma-desktop [sudo] password for jboero: Last metadata expiration check: 2:15:43 ago on Mon 10 Feb 2020 04:17:46 PM GMT. Installed Packages Name : plasma-desktop Version : 5.17.5 Release : 1.fc31 Architecture : x86_64 Size : 26 M Source : plasma-desktop-5.17.5-1.fc31.src.rpm Repository : @System From repo : updates Summary : Plasma Desktop shell URL : https://cgit.kde.org/plasma-desktop.git License : GPLv2+ and (GPLv2 or GPLv3) Description : Plasma Desktop shell.
We have made improvements to the resolution-sensitivity code here over the past year or two, and I am unable to reproduce the issue. Can anyone who's using Plasma 5.21 or later still reproduce it?
This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information. For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!