SUMMARY I am using a notebook having a screen resolution of 1920x1200 px plus an external monitor ASUS BP248 with the same resolution connected via HDMI 2.0 port. In the screen settings I disabled the internal screen, so I am only using the external one. The problem occurs when trying to add a wizard: Any wizard can only be added to the upper section of the screen and cannot be moved/resized into the lower section. However, it looks like the wizard window can be moved across the upper screen edge, which makes me assume that there is a vertical offset between the actual screen and the screen area allowed for widgets to be placed in. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Using the monitor setup described above open the 'add wizard' application and create any wizard. OBSERVED RESULT The wizard is automatically placed within the upper section of the screen and cannot be moved or resized into the lower part. However, it can be moved across the upper screen edge. EXPECTED RESULT Adding a wizard should place the wizard window at a sort of default position within the screen and the window should allow to be placed/resized anywhere on the screen but not outside the screen area. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20231124 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.9 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.112.0 Qt Version: 5.15.11 Kernel Version: 6.6.2-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 8 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz Memory: 15.4 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Xe Graphics Manufacturer: SchenkerTechnologiesGmbH Product Name: SCHENKER VISION 14
What is the "Add Wizard" application? Is this a KDE app? Can you attach a screenshot of it?
Created attachment 163626 [details] The Add widgets context menu
Created attachment 163627 [details] The widget sidebar From the widget sidebar, locate a widget you want to add to the desktop and click it. The widget will be added to the desktop and you can either add more or close the sidebar.
Sorry for my bad English. I am using the German Plasma Edition so I may have made translation errors.
Thank you. I cannot reproduce the issue with a laptop connected to an external screen and its internal screen closed and disabled. Can you by any chance attach a screen recording that depicts the issue happening, so I can make sure I'm testing correctly?
Created attachment 163710 [details] Widget flipping back when trying to move or resize it I added a mkv video file showing the wizard window not being able to be moved or resized across the boarders of the restricted screen area. However, I was wrong when I said the wizard window can be moved across the upper edge of the screen. I flips back there, too. So, no offset of the allowed screen area but just a restricted area. Also, I found a workaround for this issue: Everything works as expected if I restart the Plasma Shell using 'killall plasmashell' and 'kstart5 plasmashell'. I hope the info helps. Thanks
Thanks. I notice you were using a 3rd-party widget to test with. Does the issue still happen with the 1st-party Analog Clock widget that I also see on your desktop?
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #7) > Thanks. I notice you were using a 3rd-party widget to test with. Does the > issue still happen with the 1st-party Analog Clock widget that I also see on > your desktop? The clock and other 1st-party widgets are showing just the same behavior.
Thanks. Can you test with only one screen connected, rather than two? Does it still happen?
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #9) > Thanks. Can you test with only one screen connected, rather than two? Does > it still happen? The issue does not depend on which screen I use/connect as a single screen. However, I found that the problem is obviously caused by Latte-Dock, which I usually auto-start at system startup (3 docks at the bottom of the screen), even if I delay the auto-start by 20 s. Also in case the application is not auto-started, the wizard windows are automatically moved into the upper screen section as soon as I start Latte-Dock manually. So, still the only way I found so far to get around it is to restart plasmashell with Latte-Dock already running. For the time being this does not hurt too much, as currently I am only using the analog clock wizard being placed in the upper right corner, so the issue does not affect the actual screen layout.
Thanks, moving to Latte Dock.