Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Frameworks 6 window management

[Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>]

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On Friday 6 September 2024 12:40:25 BST Dale wrote:
> Michael wrote:
> > On Friday 6 September 2024 12:04:08 BST Dale wrote:
> >> I might add, another odd thing that started after a recent update.  When
> >> I logout of KDE or when first booting and am on the sddm login screen,
> >> my first monitor powers off.  The second monitor stays on and has the
> >> login screen as does the TV screen.  Yet the primary screen turns off.
> >> At first when we got past the wonky monitor problem, all three would
> >> stay on and mirror each other.  Now it doesn't.
> >> 
> >> I might add, if I switch to a console, screen one turns back on and all
> >> three mirror each other.  I kinda like that because if I need to do
> >> something that takes a bit, I don't have to go to the living room to
> >> turn the TV back on again.
> > 
> > It sounds as if the primary monitor is using DPMS in Xorg, if you're
> > running X, or some similar energy saving feature.  Check SystemSettings >
> > Power Management > Display and Brightness.
> 
> You may be on to something.  I have DPMS enabled on my two main monitors
> but not the TV.  That said, I had my monitors set to not turn off.  I
> did that the other day so that they would stay on while I was doing my
> emerge -e world.  I wanted to keep a eye on it in case something failed
> and the emerge stopped. 
> 
> Should I have DPMS set to on or turn them all off in xorg.conf?  I'm
> thinking on.  Thursday a week ago tho, everything turned off when I
> locked the screen, TV as well.  It seems it can turn things off even
> without DPMS. 
> 
> > Meanwhile back at the ranch, I think my Gkrellm dock panel problem is
> > related to KDE 6 not identifying the Gkrellm window as a 'dock/panel',
> > probably because the Gtk2 code is far too old to integrate with Plasma. 
> > :-(
> This is bad.  It's a sign gkrellm might stop working.  I hope someone
> who can code will update and keep gkrellm alive and going.  I'd hate to
> see that go away.  That's a awesome tool that is impossible to replace. 
> I don't know of anything that comes close. 
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-) 


The second problem I started this thread with, related to the Kmail composer 
window inheriting the main Kmail window size and vice versa, seems to occur 
because both windows are identified having the same "kmail org.kde.kmail2" 
named Class.  I played around with various properties, like window type and 
what not, but I have not been able to add a separate window size for the 
composer alone without affecting the main Kmail window.  If anyone comes up 
with a working solution please chime in!

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