I've had more and more problems over the last 2 years - now becoming hard to
deal with.
Lately (f25) I find sddm is misbehaving very badly. When I reboot, and try
to login with 2 monitors, frequently I'm left with a black screen. Even my
kill/restart script doesn't work. Several reboots later I finally get a
desktop, and then have to fix various settings (e.g., my background
changed).
Last time I tried, I on about the 3rd reboot I got a panel with no pager,
and couldn't seem to add one. A restart later everything was fine.
Maybe I can switch away from sddm?
ProPAAS DBA wrote:
Thanks, I'll try the kill / restart script
On 12/09/2016 05:24 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>
> On 12/10/16 07:43, ProPAAS DBA wrote:
>> I'm running Fedora 24 KDE spin on a thinkpad X1 carbon 4th gen laptop. I
>> have 2 external monitors and most often they work well, I plug one into
>> the hdmi port and a second via a vga adapter into the laptop's mini
>> display port.
>>
>> More and more often I'm having issues when I plug in the external
>> monitors. The menu & taskbar/panel jumps around asI plug in the
>> monitors. I want this to stay on the laptop. Even though the display
>> settings shows the laptop as the primary screen
>>
>> Sometimes one of the external monitors will show up with no background,
>> I can move the mouse to it and I can drag windows to it but I cannot
>> right click on the background and get a menu.
>>
>>
>>
>> I've even tried manually controlling the monitors via xrandr, the last
>> time I had issues my panel moved to a secondary monitor, xrandr reported
>> that the laptop was indeed still set as the primary, running "xrandr
>> --output eDP-1 --primary" had no effect. I generally have to reboot 5 or
>> 6 times to get the external monitors to behave. Sometimes I actually
>> have to remove my .config directory before it will work.
>>
>>
>> Can anyone help me debug this?
> Debug? No. Share in your misery? Sure. :-)
>
> Even though I have a desktop with only two monitors I sometimes run into
> issues as you may
> have guessed from my earlier post. The next time I have my most
> prominent problem I'll have to see if I can find the right xrandr
> incantation to get it back.
>
> As far as the "blank background" issue goes, I get that from time to time
> and have a small
> script to kill and restart plasmashell which gets it working again. The
> script simply does...
>
> kquitapp plasmashell
> plasmashell &
>
>
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