SUMMARY *** Having laptop desktop duplicated to an HDMI screen, then closing laptop lid so HDMI screen becomes primary all icons lose their position. Then opening laptop lid so screens get duplicated, it happens again. *** STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. On laptop desktop to folder display, icons positioned where you want them and locked: layout A 2. Hook up HDMI screen 3. Desktop is duplicated and everything remains the same, so layout A 4. Close laptop lid so HDMI screen becomes the only one 5. Icons get a random order, left to right 6. unlock icons, place them in a desired order, but a little bit different from what you had, lock them: layout B 7. open laptop lid so desktop is duplicated again 8. Icons get a random order, left to right 9. Close laptop lid so HDMI screen becomes the only one 10. Icons get a random order, left to right 11. Unplug HDMI screen, random mess remains OBSERVED RESULT Icons get mixed up each and every single time EXPECTED RESULT Going to a new desktop/screen I can understand you need to set it up again, but after that when switching back to a previously know configuration you would expect it to be as it was. Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230228 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.1 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0 Qt Version: 5.15.8 Kernel Version: 6.2.0-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Six-Core Processor Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 570 Series Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Product Name: MS-7B87 System Version: 1.0 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Can reproduce exactly, without even locking icons.
Ah, that was on 5.27.2. With 5.27.3 I can't reproduce it anymore. Looks like it may have been fixed with the fix for Bug 464873. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 464873 ***
good morning this was marked as a duplicate of bug 464873 which has been resolved in 5.27.3. so as Tumbleweed rolled that out this week I tested the exact same steps, the good news is it sort of has changed. The bad news is that it is not fixed though. laptop & external screen both on: icons in the wanted layout A closed laptop lid: icons on external screen all on the top row, layout B with laptop still closed: place icons again as wanted A open laptop lid: icons now in a new layout, not all on the top line anymore but also on the second line, so layout C closing and opening the lid does keep them on layout C, but soon as you move then into layout A it all jumps back again to B or C depending if you changed it with laptop lid open or closed. Regards, Alex
> the good news is it sort of has changed. The bad news is that it is not fixed though. Can you write new steps to reproduce for this new issue?
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #4) > > the good news is it sort of has changed. The bad news is that it is not fixed though. > Can you write new steps to reproduce for this new issue? sorry i was not clear enough. 1. on laptop set icons as you please. layout A. 2. hook up external screen 3. screens gets duplicated and both show the same, all good 4. close laptop lid so external becomes only screen, all icons get reposisioned on the top row. let call this random mess layout B. 5. place icons as you please on the remote screen. layout C. 6. open laptop lid so both screens are duplicated again, icons are now in a diffrent layout, not A. B. or C. but i guess layout D. most on top row but also a few on 2nd row. 7. this layout D. sticks now when opening and closing the lid, but its pretty useless and any change you make it will revert back to either B or D. i made some picture to help explain. also noticed that the 5min rotation on background picture get reset and open or close lid will give you a new background, no issue at all but maybe a clue :)
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Thanks very much. I'll try to test that once Bug 460246 is fixed, as that issue prevents me from being able to use mirrored setups properly.
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