On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 04:25:16 +0100 Daniel Sonck via arch-general wrote:

Hey Pete,

On Saturday, January 16, 2021 12:21:21 AM CET pete via arch-general wrote:

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Evening Archers

O am trying to find where KDE Plasma stores the settings for multiple monitors but can not find it yet . It seems to be stored in $HOME/.local/share/kscreen

It contains multiple files, one for each seen screen configuration (think about a specific combination of displays to specific outputs, swapping displays around would probably create a new config. As well as exchanging models of displays) I imagine clearing this folder (or moving it to another location) would probably reset it to whatever Xorg thinks is best during session start.

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I have 2 identical monitors both were working fine now i have lost the panel on the one monitor and can not restore it i have tried all the suggestions i can find so last resort i want to look at the configs for the monitors so which file are the configs stored in please .

Thanks Pete

Regards,

Daniel

Hi Daniel Yes i had spotted those but alas no mention of the Panel in any of them one thing that woild be interesting is the configs directory in that tree do you have anything in there it is empty here Pete

On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 15:56:32 +0100 Daniel Sonck via arch-general wrote:

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On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 04:25:16 +0100

Daniel Sonck via arch-general wrote:

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Hey Pete,

On Saturday, January 16, 2021 12:21:21 AM CET pete via arch-general wrote:

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Evening Archers

O am trying to find where KDE Plasma stores the settings for multiple monitors but can not find it yet .

It seems to be stored in $HOME/.local/share/kscreen

It contains multiple files, one for each seen screen configuration (think about a specific combination of displays to specific outputs, swapping displays around would probably create a new config. As well as exchanging models of displays) I imagine clearing this folder (or moving it to another location) would probably reset it to whatever Xorg thinks is best during session start.

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I have 2 identical monitors both were working fine now i have lost the panel on the one monitor and can not restore it i have tried all the suggestions i can find so last resort i want to look at the configs for the monitors so which file are the configs stored in please .

Thanks Pete

Regards,

Daniel

Hi Daniel

Yes i had spotted those but alas no mention of the Panel in any of them one thing that woild be interesting is the configs directory in that tree do you have anything in there it is empty here Ah yes, I think I misunderstood (EE background so for me a LCD display is synonymous with panel) but you refer to the bars with start, task switcher etc. I actually found those at $HOME/.config/plasmashellrc and $HOME/.config/

On Monday, January 18, 2021 1:32:13 PM CET pete via arch-general wrote: plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc

From what I could deduce, it seems like the plasmashellrc file contains the panel description in size and a mapping of the screens, and the plasma- org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc contains the details of which widgets are in there. As it contains references to the actual widgets, their order, and it also seems to reference the screen. The lastScreen seems to coincide with the index under [ScreenConnectors] for the xrandr name of the screen.

This is all guesswork and reverse engineering based on observations, but I think this should help a bit. At least now I also know where to find these things when it borks up for me.

Note, as answer to your question, on one PC the configs directory is empty for me, and the other doesn't have it at all.

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Pete

Regards,

Daniel Thanks Daniel

I will mave a mooch thru see if i can make sense of it . Pete