Created attachment 161311 [details] Screenshot displaying the problem. SUMMARY Application launcher opens on the wrong screen. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Add Application launcher on main screen panel 2. Click on Application Launcher 3. Watch it open on a secondary screen. I believe this is a duplicate of 467367 but I was told to open a new issue.
Is that a custom application launcher widget? It doesn't look like the default one.
Created attachment 161318 [details] AppLauncher choices
Have you edited it yourself?
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3) > Have you edited it yourself? What do you mean by that? Like on source level?
Right. I ask because the thing I see on the left-most screen of your screenshot is not how Application Launcher looks normally. Then one you're using appears to have been altered to have huge icons, an icons-only sidebar, and centered power actions on the bottom bar. So, did you make these changes yourself? If not, are you using a 3rd-party version of the Application Launcher widget? If not, can you ask in a distro-specific forum (e.g. https://forum.manjaro.org) whether this is the way your distros sets things up themselves?
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #5) > > So, did you make these changes yourself? > > If not, are you using a 3rd-party version of the Application Launcher widget? > Nope and I don't think so. > If not, can you ask in a distro-specific forum (e.g. > https://forum.manjaro.org) whether this is the way your distros sets things > up themselves? I could see them theming things custom, but why would that affect which display it shows up on?
Becaise if if it's not our code, it could be doing the wrong thing, and we don't have any control over it. I was leading towards asking you to try using one of the standard widgets from KDE (e.g. the original Kickoff, or Application Menu) to see if it still happens when using those.
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #7) > Becaise if if it's not our code, it could be doing the wrong thing, and we > don't have any control over it. > Yes, I understand that. > I was leading towards asking you to try using one of the standard widgets > from KDE (e.g. the original Kickoff, or Application Menu) to see if it still > happens when using those. Simple Menu stays on main display. Application Dashboard which if the full screen annoying one also opens on the same/main screen as the panel and button which triggers it. Same for the windows style application menu, though on that one sub-menus that are longer than just a few entries sometimes go underneath the main panel and get partially cut off by edge of the screen which seems wrong... but that's unpredictable and only happens sometimes.
> opens on the same/main screen as the panel and button which triggers it. This is what's supposed to happen for Kickoff as well, yeah.
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #9) > > opens on the same/main screen as the panel and button which triggers it. > > This is what's supposed to happen for Kickoff as well, yeah. Is there any way by which I could tell if I've added this one maybe by accident or simply long enough ago via the `get new widgets` option that I don't recall adding it?
If you open the Add Widgets sidebar, there will be a little number in a circle in the corner of widgets that are active. So you can use that to see which widgets are active, and how many of them.
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #11) > If you open the Add Widgets sidebar, there will be a little number in a > circle in the corner of widgets that are active. So you can use that to see > which widgets are active, and how many of them. Hrm, that didn't really answer the question I asked but it did set me on the right path to figuring the answer out... So, from the looks of it, on hover over a widget the number of instances are shown on the top left corner(if any actively instanced) and for installed third party widgets on the top right there is a red line-art icon of a trash can(as opposed to built-ins which don't show it, kinda wish some of them would be uninstallable too since bloat, but that's neither here nor there). Based on this it would seem that the Launcher in question was indeed installed third party. As such the issue can be closed. But I would like to leave some final thoughts first, if I may. These elements being hidden under a on-hover flag seems like a rather bad idea to me, and as I already mentioned in the passing I think it might be a good idea to make as many of the default widgets as practically possible uninstallable as well(I understand there are some that are bare minimum necessary so as to not cripple the usability of the base system itself, so that is not applicable to those). Which would mean that while this is a measure by which to tell third party widgets apart for now, should some of the default bundled ones ever hopefully become uninstallable it would likely be a good idea to design a new indicator measure for the end user to instantly see and tell apart which is a default one and which a third party widget. Also, from what I vaguely understand the `get new widgets` sources widgets from some third party source that the KDE project has no control over(or so I've seen stated by others on myriad online forums) so as to assure quality, nor to ensure they stay up to date for that matter so I'm inclined to say I'd like to(not that I'm demanding anything tho, or even in a position to for that matter, just signalling a single end-user opinion) see that removed perhaps altogether if not replaced with a source that is directly under KDE projects control.