SUMMARY Signing out and back in with multiple monitors connected and/or setting a different monitor to primary screen will move widgets seemingly randomly based on the system. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Connect to external monitor 2. Add widgets to desktop 3. Relog or reboot OBSERVED RESULT Widgets move to different location than originally placed EXPECTED RESULT Widgets remain in same place after relog or reboot SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux: Kubuntu 22.04 KDE Plasma Version: Plasma 5.25.1 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.95.0 Qt Version: 5.15.3 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Reported by Kubuntu Focus testers
Created attachment 150202 [details] Before relog or reboot 2 monitors
Created attachment 150203 [details] After relog or reboot 2 monitors
Created attachment 150204 [details] Before relog or reboot 4 monitors
Created attachment 150205 [details] After relog or reboot 4 monitors
A few additional observations: 1. This occurs with the official Breeze Dark theme. 2. This occurs with themed layouts OR when widgets are added manually to the desktop.
I think this is a combination of two longstanding already-reported issues: Bug 425368 and Bug 413645. Arbitrarily marking it as a duplicate of Bug 425368 because that one currently has fewer, and we can't mark a Bugzilla ticket as a duplicate of multiple other ones. Both are high priority, but as you can see, unfortunately they've remained open for years due to a lack of resourcing for maintenance of the very old desktop containment code. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 425368 ***