SUMMARY Sometimes, connecting a monitor via HDMI may cause Plasma to crash as it attempts to move the main display from the laptop screen to the external display. STEPS TO REPRODUCE Before reproducing, make sure the external monitor is set as the main display and the laptop screen set to turn off automatically when monitor is connected 1. Connect external monitor to laptop (HDMI port, idk if this affects DP) 2. Laptop display will turn off, and screen will appear on external monitor OBSERVED RESULT Plasma desktop disappears (background turns black, taskbar, desktop icons, and widgets disappear) Only kwin remains running (Same thing happens when going from external monitor back to laptop display) EXPECTED RESULT Desktop should switch displays successfully without crashing SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.11.0 Qt Version: 6.8.2 Kernel Version: 6.13.5-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 2 × AMD A9-9420e RADEON R5, 5 COMPUTE CORES 2C+3G Memory: 7.2 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon R5 Graphics Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Product Name: Inspiron 3180 System Version: 1.1.0 Monitor: Gigabyte GS27Q ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Does not happen every time, may take a few attempts for this to happen
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 499383 ***