SUMMARY Panels that are on secondary displays sometimes jump to the main display after a fresh boot. This also causes the virtual desktops widget to show the main display instead of the secondary display on said panel even when moved to the secondary display (using the "show only current screen" option of the virtual desktops widget) SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.0.0 Qt Version: 6.6.2 Kernel Version: 6.7.9-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Darn, we thought this had been fixed in Plasma 6? Any chance you're still experiencing it in Plasma 6.1.4? If so, I'll investigate.
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > Darn, we thought this had been fixed in Plasma 6? Any chance you're still > experiencing it in Plasma 6.1.4? If so, I'll investigate. Yep. Still happens, but not always, majority of the time it gets it wrong (something like 98 or of 100 boots has both panels on main display), and then the desktop widget is borked as described. But the odd time it spawns it on the correct display the widget works fine.
Can you attach a screenshot of all screens that shows what your setup is supposed to look like normally? And then also one that shows what it looks like when the problem is reproducing?
Created attachment 172803 [details] Illustration depicting a bug
I made an illustration as its much clearer what the bug is as opposed to screenshots
> Created attachment 172803 [details] > Illustration depicting a bug Forgot to mention the 1440p screen is the primary
All right, so there are probably two bugs here: one about the panel being in the wrong place, and another about the Pager widget not behaving properly after correcting it. Let's ignore the latter issue for now and see if we can fix the former issue. Niccolò, do you have any idea what could make a panel go onto the wrong screen and double up with another one like this?
Not unless I manage to reproduce this. I'll give it a shot.
There have been a lot of changes and improvements to panel positioning recently. Can I ask you to try again with Plasma 6.3 or later and see if it's still happening? Thanks a lot!
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #9) > There have been a lot of changes and improvements to panel positioning > recently. Can I ask you to try again with Plasma 6.3 or later and see if > it's still happening? Thanks a lot! It is still happening, but *slightly* less frequently, other than that exactly as originally described. Still no idea if its linked to anything KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.12.0 Qt Version: 6.9.0 Kernel Version: 6.12.21-1-lts (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland
Can you confirm that it's only the panel that moves? And not the entire desktop plus its panel?
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #11) > Can you confirm that it's only the panel that moves? And not the entire > desktop plus its panel? Yes, only the panel moves, the "widgets" added onto the desktop do not move, nor do any (auto launched) windows. Only the panel is misplaced, and still breaks the virtual desktops widget like described originally.
I've been having the same issue ( https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484366 ). I have two panels on the left monitor, and one on the right, and on every boot they all jump to the right (primary) monitor. On 6.3.3 it was every *second or third boot*, which was very strange, but now with 6.3.5 it seems to be on every boot, but not when waking from locked/sleep. > === > Operating System: Fedora Linux 42 > KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.5 > KDE Frameworks Version: 6.14.0 > Qt Version: 6.9.0 > Kernel Version: 6.14.8-300.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit) > Graphics Platform: Wayland > === (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #11) > Can you confirm that it's only the panel that moves? And not the entire > desktop plus its panel? I'm confident it's *not* the entire screen being messed up - upon waking from sleep, windows will frequently be shoved in between the two screens or off the bottom (which is a separate *problem* [deserving of a separate report], but could indicate a shared *cause*). Auto launched windows *on boot* appear in the expected spots on both monitors. I can't comment on the Virtual Desktops widget as I don't use it, but task managers in the panel work as expected, which was an issue previously.
hmm, panels and desktops use the same code to move themselves to the proper screen, is very weird that only the panel gets moved to the wrong screen, not the desktop
(In reply to Marco Martin from comment #14) > hmm, panels and desktops use the same code to move themselves to the proper screen, is very weird that only the panel gets moved to the wrong screen, not the desktop Oop - realising a bad typo there, I meant to say; > I'm not confident it's *not* the entire screen being messed up [...] (guessing I confused myself with the double-negative)
(In reply to i from comment #15) > (In reply to Marco Martin from comment #14) > > hmm, panels and desktops use the same code to move themselves to the proper screen, is very weird that only the panel gets moved to the wrong screen, not the desktop > > Oop - realising a bad typo there, I meant to say; > > > I'm not confident it's *not* the entire screen being messed up [...] > > (guessing I confused myself with the double-negative) I have a ton of widgets on one of my screens and they never get screwed up by this bug, neither does the wallpaper or any window placement of auto launched programs. Methinks its safe to assume its not the entire screen being messed up