[arch-general] Dual monitor issue

[pete]

On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 15:56:32 +0100
Daniel Sonck via arch-general <arch-general at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:

> On Monday, January 18, 2021 1:32:13 PM CET pete via arch-general wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 04:25:16 +0100
> > 
> > Daniel Sonck via arch-general <arch-general at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:
> > > Hey Pete,
> > > 
> > > On Saturday, January 16, 2021 12:21:21 AM CET pete via arch-general wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > > 
> > > > 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/
> 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.
> >
> > 
> > 
> > Pete
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Daniel
Thanks Daniel 

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


Pete