Bug 442823

Summary: KDE4 widgets lost their position and appear at the top left of the screen after reboot
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1 Reporter: Stefan Assmann <sassmann>
Component: KDE4 WorkspaceAssignee: E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED NORESPONSE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: wstephenson
Version: Beta 4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
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Attachments: Xorg.0.log
xorg.conf

Description Stefan Assmann 2008-11-07 18:43:53 UTC
After reboot all widgets I had on my desktop were positioned in the top left of the screen.
Comment 1 Stephan Binner 2008-11-15 18:58:10 UTC
Never happened to me. Anything special about your reboot? Screen size change, etc?
Comment 2 Stefan Assmann 2008-11-17 08:54:51 UTC
This happened twice now. I went to the desktop effects page changed some settings in the advanced options and confirmed then. Then the hdd showed activity for 10 minutes without any interrupt and I had to shutdown the machine with the power button because it never seemed to end. Afterwards icons were placed at the top left of the screen.
Comment 3 Will Stephenson 2008-11-26 17:51:16 UTC
Can you preposition a 'top' over ssh then reproduce this please?  I haven't seen it and it's probably hardware/driver specific.
Comment 4 Stefan Assmann 2008-11-28 13:07:37 UTC
sorry, pretty busy later. I'll try that!
Comment 5 Stefan Assmann 2008-11-30 08:42:23 UTC
okay here is what I found out
top:
PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
7804 root      20   0  343m  66m  11m R 79.6  6.7   4:10.41 X                  10033 root      20   0  3640 2244  464 R  8.0  0.2   0:00.04 susetags2solv

iotop:
7804 root 0 B/s 4197.56 K/s  0.00 %  0.00 % X -nolisten tcp :0 vt7

This time it happened after I installed RC1 and tried to enable the compositing features in the Configure Destop menue.

Looks like X is taking over the CPU and doing lots of disk I/O
Comment 6 Stefan Assmann 2008-11-30 08:51:37 UTC
Created attachment 256773 [details]
Xorg.0.log
Comment 7 Stefan Assmann 2008-11-30 08:52:52 UTC
Created attachment 256774 [details]
xorg.conf
Comment 8 Stefan Assmann 2008-11-30 09:03:36 UTC
Now I can't enable compiz anymore. Whenever I try to activate desktop effects I get the following message:
"Failed to activate desktop effects using the given configuration options. Settings will be reverted to their previous values.
Check your X configuration"
Comment 9 Stefan Dirsch 2008-12-15 11:23:52 UTC
X configuration looks fine. 3D support is enabled.
Comment 10 Lubos Lunak 2009-01-16 13:43:48 UTC
This bugreport seems to mix several issues.

First is what this was initially about, items on the desktop being in the top-left corner, after system crash (poweroff). Can you reproduce this even if you do the same without the X problem (i.e. just poweroff somewhen)?

Second, X using CPU after enabling desktop effects. I don't know why you mention Compiz when this is about KDE effects, but you should probably report this as a separate bugreport for X.
Comment 11 Stefan Assmann 2009-01-16 18:23:59 UTC
(In reply to comment #10)
> This bugreport seems to mix several issues.
> 
> First is what this was initially about, items on the desktop being in the
> top-left corner, after system crash (poweroff). Can you reproduce this even if
> you do the same without the X problem (i.e. just poweroff somewhen)?

No, this just happens whenever X hangs and does a lot of disk i/o

> 
> Second, X using CPU after enabling desktop effects. I don't know why you
> mention Compiz when this is about KDE effects, but you should probably report
> this as a separate bugreport for X.

Well in my understand KDE enables compiz for the effects right?
Comment 12 Lubos Lunak 2009-01-30 18:28:04 UTC
(In reply to comment #11)
> No, this just happens whenever X hangs and does a lot of disk i/o

Please attach your ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma* after this happens.

> Well in my understand KDE enables compiz for the effects right?

No, KDE does not use Compiz at all (unless the user explicitly switches from KDE's KWin). The part about reporting that to X still stands.