Another kde6 problem: display is shifted after login

juniper · l33t Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 952 Location: we the north

I see others are having kde 6 problems.

As the title says. What's happening is that the display is shifted slightly to the left, so that the left side of the display is at around the 80% mark measured from the left side of the screen. The screen works, the mouse wraps, but of course this is annoying.

The problem can be fixed by going to settings -> display and changing the frequency to something else and then changing it back to the standard setting, but of course this is an annoying fix.

I was having other kde 6 problems so I wiped all my settings, this shouldn't be a clash of old kde 5 config files clashing with kde 6 (if I wiped all config files correctly, which is not a trivial task).

Ralphred · Guru Joined: 31 Dec 2013 Posts: 570

We used to be able to disable kscreen, but there is no "start-up config" (or whatever it was called) now.
There is kscreen-console and kscreen-doctor, which you may be able to script to effect an "automatic fix" with, and certainly use to find any errant config files, at least until something trickles down from upstream...

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 9172

If it turns out to be a Plasma 6 bug, you will obviously have to go upstream with your details, since downstream packaging will not be able to help you with such a problem.. But you haven't even stated if that was a Wayland or X session yet. Regarding config - did you also remove ~/.cache?

This is not something I have ever heard from, and it really sounds related to specific hardware/driver circumstances. Hence, more details needed.

juniper · l33t Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 952 Location: we the north

@Ralphred: I don't understand what kscreen does or how it affects the problem.

@astrum: I don't know if it is upstream or not. I did not remove all of .cache. I removed all files in .config, .local, and .cache that looked like they had something to do with kde or plasma.

I had kde5 for years on my machine and this did not happen. It only happened after the kde 6 upgrade.

the machine uses wayland (both on kde5 and kde6), so I don't think wayland is the cause. I am happy to post hardware/software details. what would you like?

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 9172