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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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

:-)  :-)