On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 15:56:32 +0100 Daniel Sonck via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Monday, January 18, 2021 1:32:13 PM CET pete via arch-general wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 04:25:16 +0100 > > > > Daniel Sonck via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hey Pete, > > > > > > On Saturday, January 16, 2021 12:21:21 AM CET pete via arch-general wrote: > > > > Evening Archers > > > > > > > > O am trying to find where KDE Plasma stores the settings for multiple > > > > monitors but can not find it yet . > > > > > > It seems to be stored in $HOME/.local/share/kscreen > > > > > > It contains multiple files, one for each seen screen configuration (think > > > about a specific combination of displays to specific outputs, swapping > > > displays around would probably create a new config. As well as exchanging > > > models of displays) I imagine clearing this folder (or moving it to > > > another > > > location) would probably reset it to whatever Xorg thinks is best during > > > session start. > > > > > > > I have 2 identical monitors both were working fine now i have lost the > > > > panel on the one monitor and can not restore it i have tried all the > > > > suggestions i can find so last resort i want to look at the configs for > > > > the > > > > monitors so which file are the configs stored in please . > > > > > > > > Thanks Pete > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Daniel > > > > Hi Daniel > > > > Yes i had spotted those but alas no mention of the Panel in any of them > > one thing that woild be interesting is the configs directory in that tree > > do you have anything in there it is empty here > Ah yes, I think I misunderstood (EE background so for me a LCD display is > synonymous with panel) but you refer to the bars with start, task switcher > etc. I actually found those at $HOME/.config/plasmashellrc and $HOME/.config/ > plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc > > From what I could deduce, it seems like the plasmashellrc file contains the > panel description in size and a mapping of the screens, and the plasma- > org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc contains the details of which widgets are in > there. As it contains references to the actual widgets, their order, and it > also seems to reference the screen. The lastScreen seems to coincide with the > index under [ScreenConnectors] for the xrandr name of the screen. > > This is all guesswork and reverse engineering based on observations, but I > think this should help a bit. At least now I also know where to find these > things when it borks up for me. > > Note, as answer to your question, on one PC the configs directory is empty > for me, and the other doesn't have it at all. > > > > > > > > Pete > > Regards, > > Daniel Thanks Daniel I will mave a mooch thru see if i can make sense of it . Pete
