Note: I don't actually think this is related to dolphin but I don't know which category to choose, so I sticked with Dolphin as it is at least involved in the process. SUMMARY When I plug in a USB drive (USB 3.0) I get a notification about it in the system tray (small USB icon to the bottom right). In there I can choose to "Open with File Manager" which will successfully open the respective drive in Dolphin. At the same time though the notification window starts hopping from being open on my left screen to being open on my right screen periodically every ~0.5s. While doing so it is always steeling focus from whatever other window I had selected in between. It can be closed my clicking "safely remove device" (aka by unmounting the stick). Closing Dolphin doesn't seem to have an influence on the hopping. The same behavior can be triggered by attempting to "download photos with Gwenview". STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Plug in USB 2a. Choose "Open with File Manager" from USB notification 2b. Choose "Download photos with Gwenview" from USB notification SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: KDE neon 5.20 KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.1 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.75.0 Qt Version: 5.15.0 Kernel Version: 5.4.0-52-generic OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz Memory: 7,7 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: NVE4 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION - I am using a dual monitor setup (2x 1920x1080) with "extend to the left" option. - It doesn't matter which monitor I access the notification - I have experienced a UI freeze shortly after removing the USB drive while the hopping still occured. The freeze happened a bit delayed though (a couple of minutes) so I am not 100% sure this is related. It happened more than once though - My USB actually has 4 partitions on it: 1. NTFS (7.8 GB) 2. ext4 (31 GB) 3. Fat32 (Linux live image, 5 GB) 4. Unallocated: 14 GB
Odd.
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Duplicate bug report includes a hilarious/terrifying video worthy of https://www.reddit.com/r/softwaregore/: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt5mQWs85iw
I will check that.
Nate, can you take a look? I check 5.19.5 and seems it was working fine, on 5.20 it has this strange behavior. I guess it is connected to "processLastDevice" but can't pinpoint the regression - there was a big rework between 5.19 and 5.20
Will investigate.
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I have a fix for that, MR in 10 minutes :)
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/431
Git commit 56cc74ecdf2b3194b61cdab997447b78acdb6d24 by Konrad Materka. Committed on 09/11/2020 at 07:45. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. [applets/devicenotifier] Fix regression with expand This fixes regresion, when plugging in a removable media or phone the removable media widget toggles on and off if two or more of them are present. M +4 -4 applets/devicenotifier/package/contents/ui/devicenotifier.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/commit/56cc74ecdf2b3194b61cdab997447b78acdb6d24
Git commit 640082f0623279e0aacdf599a38ed0ebf9be04f8 by Nate Graham, on behalf of Konrad Materka. Committed on 09/11/2020 at 16:07. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'Plasma/5.20'. [applets/devicenotifier] Fix regression with expand This fixes regresion, when plugging in a removable media or phone the removable media widget toggles on and off if two or more of them are present. (cherry picked from commit 56cc74ecdf2b3194b61cdab997447b78acdb6d24) M +4 -4 applets/devicenotifier/package/contents/ui/devicenotifier.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/commit/640082f0623279e0aacdf599a38ed0ebf9be04f8
Thanks so much for fixing this, Konrad!
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