Hi,
I keep having issues with KDE/Plasma and I am not sure what to do about this, or if this is known issue with my setup.
Typically I connect my laptop (Dell Latitude E6450, AMD Radeon HD 8790M) with two external monitors to have 3 display total. On each display then I can set up different wallpapers. I keep the laptop monitor as the "Primary Display".
This is where weirdness starts. For example, upon logout and relogin, my wallpapers on the different displays sometime are randomly swapped. Sometime they're back to the right place after another logout-relogin, but not always.
I often cannot create panel ("Default" or "Empty") on the desktop on external monitors. If I right click and add widget, widget usually show up in the correct desktop. But not panel. They either don't show up at all, and then show up in some random place/desktop after re-login, or all just pile on one desktop (e.g. the laptop monitor). Moving panel across desktops doesn't work most of the time, but if I get really lucky (maybe 1 out of 10 tries), I can move Panel across desktop.
I've retried these things multiple time and re-started with new user to make sure it's a fresh / new config. At one time I got lucky that I had it set up the way I want it: 1 panel on each desktop on the laptop monitor and the external monitors. It worked for several days. Then at one point I log out and re-login and everything goes crazy with Panels piling up on just one desktop. I have never been able to fix it after that.
Another issue is that removing and re-attaching external monitors would often mess up Panel placements, even if it's just supposed to be a single Panel and the primary monitor remains the same (e.g. the laptop monitor). So everytime I remove and attached monitors, all bets are off with regards to Panel placement. Very annoying.
I am starting to give up on this, as it's driving me nuts. Is there alternative or workaround ? Would going back to F21 be any better (the last Fedora I used is F12, and things work generally find with KDE desktop there)
Thanks for any input.
AC
LxQT is what I am using at work (and it seems to work well with multiple monitors). OpenSUSE is using KDE4 through 2017 and that's what I have migrated all my home machines to. By 2017 if you want to move back to Fedora, I suspect KF5 should be stable/usable by then. My work machine is LxQT because I cannot afford downtime to reinstall a new distro.
On 10/07/2015 05:34 PM, Armelius Cameron wrote:
I am starting to give up on this, as it's driving me nuts. Is there alternative or workaround ? Would going back to F21 be any better (the last Fedora I used is F12, and things work generally find with KDE desktop there)
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Hi Emilio,
Thanks for the suggestion. LxQT looks interesting. If I use it, do I still have Kwin and can use the rest of KDE stuff ? Is it basically just Plasma replacement ?
Thanks, AC
On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 6:48 PM, Emilio Recio Emilio.Recio@jefferson.edu wrote:
LxQT is what I am using at work (and it seems to work well with multiple monitors). OpenSUSE is using KDE4 through 2017 and that's what I have migrated all my home machines to. By 2017 if you want to move back to Fedora, I suspect KF5 should be stable/usable by then. My work machine is LxQT because I cannot afford downtime to reinstall a new distro.
On 10/07/2015 05:34 PM, Armelius Cameron wrote:
I am starting to give up on this, as it's driving me nuts. Is there alternative or workaround ? Would going back to F21 be any better (the last Fedora I used is F12, and things work generally find with KDE desktop there)
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On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Armelius Cameron armeliusc@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion. LxQT looks interesting. If I use it, do I still have Kwin and can use the rest of KDE stuff ? Is it basically just Plasma replacement ?
I will echo what Emilio stated. LXQt is a terrific alternative for those who are having issues with Plasma5. Yes, you can use KWin... and in fact KWin will be the default for LXQt when Wayland replaces X. You also should give some of the native LXQt apps a try. Pcmanfm is really nice and lightweight. If you need advanced clipboard functionality, check out copyq. You will find the vast majority of kde apps work just fine.
On 10/08/2015 11:04 AM, Gerald B. Cox wrote:
On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Armelius Cameron <armeliusc@gmail.com mailto:armeliusc@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion. LxQT looks interesting. If I use it, do I still have Kwin and can use the rest of KDE stuff ? Is it basically just Plasma replacement ?
I will echo what Emilio stated. LXQt is a terrific alternative for those who are having issues with Plasma5. Yes, you can use KWin... and in fact KWin will be the default for LXQt when Wayland replaces X. You also should give some of the native LXQt apps a try. Pcmanfm is really nice and lightweight. If you need advanced clipboard functionality, check out copyq. You will find the vast majority of kde apps work just fine.
Getting a bit off topic here but what do you use in LXQt for NetworkManager? Is there an alternative to nm-applet ?
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On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Patrick Boutilier boutilpj@ednet.ns.ca wrote:
Getting a bit off topic here but what do you use in LXQt for NetworkManager? Is there an alternative to nm-applet ?
Great question... so far, nm-applet is the only alternative I have found. I read some posts about using connman and the lxqt-connman-applet but from what I understand, connman lacks some of the functionality of network manager, so haven't tried it out yet. Anyone else try out connman?
On Oct 8, 2015 19:10, "Kevin Kofler" kevin.kofler@chello.at wrote:
Gerald B. Cox wrote:
Yes, you can use KWin... and in fact KWin will be the default for LXQt when Wayland replaces X.
But the current default is Openbox, you have to explicitly switch to KWin
if
you want it.
Yup... Openbox is currently the default but it won't support Wayland hence the planned change. Easy to change now though: Desktop Settings - > Session Settings - > Basic Settings - > Window Manager
I suppose Openbox is more efficient but it's a bit too austere for me...