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 & -- You're Welcome Zachary Quinto _______________________________________________ kde mailing list -- kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kde-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
