STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Use a 1920x1080 display 2. Use 125% display scaling 3. Add "System Monitor sensor" widget to your desktop, in the bottom right corner, as shown in the screenshot "Before scaling happens" 4. Logout 5. Login again OBSERVED RESULT During the splash screen or sometimes after the display is shown a display rescale happens and the 100% display scaling changes to 125% display scaling. This causes the "System Monitor sensor" widget to move from it's regular position to the position as shown in the "Plasma scaling issue" screenshot. EXPECTED RESULT Upon login "System Monitor sensor" widget stays in its regular position - the bottom right corner. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.89.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.15.12-zen1-1-zen (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i5-8250U CPU @ 1.60GHz Memory: 7,6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 620
Created attachment 144987 [details] Before scaling happens
Created attachment 144988 [details] Plasma scaling issue
Created attachment 145215 [details] KDE widgets posiiton and notification Not sure if it isn't the notifications fault here - steps are: 1. Splash loading screen shows after clicking login into the SDDM display manager 2. During the splash screen showing there is a rescale and it becomes bigger and more blurry 3. Then it fades away to desktop - at this moment the widgets are at their correct position 4. Then the notifications show up on the left part of the screen for a while, then move to their correct position to the right. It is that moment when they move to the correct position in the right when the widgets "make place" for the notification. But please note that if i then go and move the widgets back to the very corner of the screen, where they should be, further notifications don't move the widgets but display over them. So if it is the notifications - then it's only the first ones right after login that are moving from the left of the screen to the right. Or it's simply because of the rescale during the splash screen - but if so then why after it fades to desktop the widgets are initially in their correct position?
Happens only on Wayland on on X11 too?
Only on Wayland
I believe there is no such rescale on X11, on X11 the widget does not move away from its position on the first notification.
I've moved the widget into the taskbar itself, now i notice the taskbar is not only blurry, but also rescales itself (starts small, then grows) and covers the bottom part of some apps (i.e. it covers the Firefox find bar & the last line of Konsole). Not really sure if the rescaling is somehow connected to the widget, will have to experiment some more.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 449212 ***