SUMMARY I use my laptop with a docking station, connected to an external screen. This screen is set in System Settings to be above the laptop one. When I unplug the docking station, however, windows are repositioned vertically so that those that were on the laptop's screen are moved down and become cut in half. I have then to manually bring them all up again to their previous position. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. use a two-screen setup in which one screen is on top of the other 2. unplug the second screen OBSERVED RESULT Windows are moved to the bottom of the first screen, often ending up cut in half. EXPECTED RESULT Windows stay where they are if they are already on the first screen. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux: KDE Neon Focal KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.76.0 Qt Version: 5.15.1 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 369130 ***
Reopening this as this doesn't actually seem like they are related. Bug 369130 deals with the fact that some GPUs and/or screens mark a screen as detached when it goes to sleep, with the consequence that the system places windows on the remaining screen. My case is different. I use my laptop with a docking station, connected to an external screen. This screen is set in System Settings to be above the laptop one. When I unplug the docking station, however, what I see is that windows *on the laptop's screen* are moved, even though they shouldn't as the geometry of that screen hasn't changed (obviously). Interestingly enough, it looks like KScreen moves the external screen from above the laptop's to its right hand side before the removal, so the effect is that windows are all shifted laterally and are often placed half outside the visible area. The point is then not that the windows are on the incorrect screen, as is the case in the other bug, but that they are placed incorrectly on the existing one.