Bug 400694 - shortcut for "Screen Layout Selection OSD"
Summary: shortcut for "Screen Layout Selection OSD"
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: kwin
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 5.13.5
Platform: Fedora RPMs Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWin default assignee
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Reported: 2018-11-05 11:01 UTC by slartibart70
Modified: 2018-11-07 19:20 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description slartibart70 2018-11-05 11:01:28 UTC
There is a new 'Screen Layout Selection' OSD, but this dialog only appears randomly (e.g. when attaching a new, previously unknown monitor). Already known (previously connected) monitors won't show this OSD ever again

Questions:
- how can one make this OSD appear by a keyboard shortcut?

I can of course open systemsettings an select the appropriate options, but if we have such a nice popup then we should also make it appear by a shortcut?

Testing on a lenovo t470 by pressing Fn-F7 doesn't do anything, my search through the global and standard shortcut list in systemsettings also didn't reveal any option to setup?

Any help is appreciated
Comment 1 Patrick Silva 2018-11-05 11:44:29 UTC
meta+p works on my laptop.
Comment 2 Martin Flöser 2018-11-05 13:35:19 UTC
This is a bug tracker and not a user support forum. Please do not ask user support questions in a bug tracker.
Comment 3 slartibart70 2018-11-07 11:41:12 UTC
maybe you are right.
BUT... this feature should be available with typical keyboard shortcuts, like Fn-Fx shortcuts and the like (depending on the laptop used)

So, plasma does not have a setting to define the shortcuts, nor does this popup react on typical shortcuts by default.

For me this smells like a bug (and yes, i could have used a different wording)
Comment 4 Martin Flöser 2018-11-07 12:01:26 UTC
This is a bug tracker and not a user support forum. Please do not ask user support questions in a bug tracker. Please do not reopen the bug.
Comment 5 slartibart70 2018-11-07 12:09:31 UTC
Martin, i'm pretty aware of you, your role and the work you do *which i really do appreciate*

Still, responding with text-templates is not really helpful.
Do you consider this a bug or not?
If not, do you consider this documentation-worthy? If so, then where the *f* are these docs?
New functionality is always hard to follow (esp. for externals) and blogs (like Nate Grahams blog) do help a lot - but they are not and will never be 'complete' or be a replacement for proper docs
Comment 6 Martin Flöser 2018-11-07 19:20:24 UTC
KWin is not responsible for this OSD. So why do you ask in a bug report against KWin about unrelated functionality? Please use a user support form where this belongs. We cannot answer every question our users have. Thank you.