SUMMARY It looks like after update to plasma 5.27 the secondary screen activation / deactivation using xrandr on plasma/X11 stopped working correctly. Symptoms are: - plasmashell cpu usage spikes to around 60% - reading from top (normally it keeps around 6% on my system) . - it starts gradually leaking memory (got to around 5GB when I noticed it after few hours of use) - reactivating the screen using xrandr again seems to fix the issue (at least the cpu use and memory leak) - the reactivated screen has no background - it's just black (worked fine on 5.26), It doesn't seem to be running plasmashell either (right click does nothing) There is a workaround to deactivate the screen by un-checking the "Enable" from the "Configure display settings", but - not sure if it can be bound to a keyboard shortcut - doesn't remember the orientation of the disabled screen (screen is rotated 90° and needs to be configured again to activate) - plasma should probably try to play nice with standard X11 tools/utilities POSSIBLY RELATED TO: Bug 466362, Bug 465994 STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Start up plasma on X11 on a dual screen system 2. run top in terminal to observe plasmashell process 2. Deactivate secondary screen using something similar to: xrandr --output HDMI1 --auto --output HDMI2 --off 3. observe as the plasmashell process cpu usage spikes and the memory use starts growing rapidly further (optional) steps: 4. reactivate second screen using something like: xrandr --output HDMI1 --auto --output HDMI2 --auto --rotate left --right-of HDMI1 5. observe that plasmashell cpu usage goes down and memory leaks (hopefully) stop 6. observe that reactivated screen is just black - no background, but cursor/windows are rendered ok. ADDITIONAL NOTES: - if I disable the screen from "Configure display settings" (disabled by default) and just activate and deactivate it using the commands above, the cpu spike / memory leak doesn't seem to be there. I still get a black background and no plasma shell interactions on it (I.E. right click does nothing). OBSERVED RESULT - memory leaks - cpu spikes - no background / plasmashell on reactivation EXPECTED RESULT - none of the above SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Fedora Linux 37 Linux/KDE Plasma: 5.27.2 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0 Qt Version: 5.15.8 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 605
Seems quite related to Bug 466362. Maybe even the same thing.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 466362 ***