I still love to use kde, but even using the latest with arch up to a few months ago I shifted to cinnamon again, their high-resolution support for compositing and hotplugging displays was still garbage with kwin.  With constant instability, I keep falling back to cinnamon, which isn't great, but isn't anywhere near as bad as kde.  Here's hoping wayland fixes some of this, or at least relegates to legacy stupidity.

Oddly, even with a desktop that never changes or technically removes connections to displays, I'd have constant issues with my displays being HDMI, every time they power down or off (usually nightly or even with my wandering away), it would freak out kde to 1) move about all my windows randomly/poorly, 2) resize resolutions randomly from 4k down to 768x480, 3) reorder my displays, and 4) all sorts of other app havok as a result.  Some 5-6 years of bug reports seems to say they will never bother, as their team apparently only ever uses one display.

I've gotten to the point when I'm angry enough to keep a 6 year old ticket open, it's just a jab with a stick at apparent incomprehension, but here's to hope someone finally reproduces it.

-mb


On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 10:35 PM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
You're in for a treat.  20.04 is possibly the best release of Kubuntu ever.

Brian Cluff

On 7/20/20 9:10 PM, Jim via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> This install has other problems.  Tonight I lost the toolbar and the
> menubar in Gwenview.  I also lost the menubar in Dolphin.  All the
> options I read online to restore them don't work.  I'm going to try
> installing Kubuntu 20.04 on another partition and try it for a while.
> I'm tired of messing with the 18.04 installation. Thanks for your help.
>
> On 7/20/20 3:30 PM, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> Breeze is refering to the SDDM theme, not your desktop theme. There
>> is no oxygen theme for SDDM.  Unless you changed it, the default
>> theme is breeze, but even if you did change it, just look on that
>> same path substituting your theme for the breeze and it will also
>> have a config file you can change.
>>
>> These are the available sddm themes in Bionic:
>> sddm-theme-breeze
>> sddm-theme-debian-elarun
>> sddm-theme-debian-maui
>> sddm-theme-elarun
>> sddm-theme-lubuntu-chooser
>> sddm-theme-maldives
>> sddm-theme-maui
>> sddm-theme-maya
>>
>> Brian Cluff
>>
>> On 7/20/20 12:05 PM, Jim via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>> I'm using the oxygen desktop theme. Also, I suspect something else
>>> is going on besides font size because when the font text is small,
>>> the settings show it being the same size as when it's the normal
>>> size.  Thanks for looking into this.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 7/19/20 6:20 PM, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>>> I looked at the file exists that I mentioned in my previous message
>>>> exists in Bionic
>>>>
>>>> From my previous message:
>>>> If you are using the breeze sddm theme you can edit it's config
>>>> file at /usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/theme.conf and there is a
>>>> font size setting in there.
>>>>
>>>> If you want to make sure that your changes don't get overwritten
>>>> the next time the system updates the theme you might want to do this:
>>>>
>>>> sudo dpkg-divert --add /usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/theme.conf
>>>>
>>>> The above line will cause any future installs of the package to
>>>> write the package's version of the config file to
>>>> /usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/theme.conf.distrib instead of it's
>>>> normal name.  That way the system will always get your version of
>>>> the config file.
>>>>
>>>> Brian Cluff
>>>>
>>>> On 7/19/20 3:26 PM, Jim via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>>>> I looked and found that Plasma 5.12 is the latest I can get with
>>>>> Kubuntu 18.04.  Which config file should I edit?
>>>>>
>>>>> On 7/19/20 3:06 PM, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>>>>> Looks like it might be a feature of newer versions of the Plasma
>>>>>> Desktop.  I'm running Kubuntu 20.04 on the version that I saw the
>>>>>> setting.
>>>>>> Most likely you can still hand edit the config file on older
>>>>>> versions though.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Brian Cluff
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 7/19/20 2:14 PM, Jim via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>>>>>> I opened system settings, clicked startup and shutdown.  The
>>>>>>> first option on the top left is Login Screen (SDDM).  I click
>>>>>>> that and the advanced tab shows.  I click it, but there's no
>>>>>>> settings synchronization button.  I have Plasma 5.12.9.    You
>>>>>>> can see what I do have under the advanced tab here
>>>>>>> https://ibb.co/3snzX6Y
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 7/19/20 10:51 AM, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>>>>>>> I was just poking around the SDDM theme settings and under the
>>>>>>>> advanced tab I just noticed there is a settings synchronization
>>>>>>>> button that will allow you to synchronize your desktop settings
>>>>>>>> to the SDDM theme. That would probably be the best way to go,
>>>>>>>> and if that works ignore my last message :)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Brian Cluff
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 7/19/20 10:46 AM, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>>>>>>>> If you are talking about the font sizes on the login screen
>>>>>>>>> itself; those font sizes aren't set by the font settings in
>>>>>>>>> your desktop settings.  The login screen is shared between all
>>>>>>>>> users of the machine so it has to have it's own settings.
>>>>>>>>> You'll either need to tweak the SDDM theme, or change the
>>>>>>>>> resolution of the whole system.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> If you are using the breeze sddm theme you can edit it's
>>>>>>>>> config file at /usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/theme.conf and
>>>>>>>>> there is a font size setting in there.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> If you want to make sure that your changes don't get
>>>>>>>>> overwritten the next time the system updates the theme you
>>>>>>>>> might want to do this:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> sudo dpkg-divert --add /usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/theme.conf
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The above line will cause any future installs of the package
>>>>>>>>> to write the package's version of the config file to
>>>>>>>>> /usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/theme.conf.distrib instead of
>>>>>>>>> it's normal name.  That way the system will always get your
>>>>>>>>> version of the config file.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Brian Cluff
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 7/19/20 10:13 AM, Jim via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Good morning,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I've got a machine running Kubuntu 18.04 64 bit. When I log
>>>>>>>>>> out and log in or press ctrl alt backspace; beginning at the
>>>>>>>>>> login screen the text is much smaller. The first time this
>>>>>>>>>> happened, I reset the text to make everything the size I
>>>>>>>>>> wanted.  When I rebooted the machine, the text was too big,
>>>>>>>>>> so I made it smaller. It wasn't doing this when I first
>>>>>>>>>> installed the OS on this dinosaur.  Any idea what happened,
>>>>>>>>>> or more importantly, how I fix it?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I went into system settings/fonts.  The sizes for the various
>>>>>>>>>> fonts are from top to bottom 12 14 14 14 14 12. When I log in
>>>>>>>>>> a second time without rebooting, the text is much smaller as
>>>>>>>>>> I described, but these font size settings are the same.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> thanks
>>>>>>>>>>
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