I’ve been having a lot of fun fooling around with widgets in KDE. For reference, I’m using a Steam Deck, with a small internal display and a 1440p external display I use for office work.
I discovered after rebooting my steam deck that the widgets were suddenly scattered all over the place. It seems that whenever I use the internal display, the widgets try to conform to the much lower resolution screen and go all over the place.
Is there a setting buried somewhere so that I can localize my widget layout to only activate and display on one specific monitor? I don’t really use widgets in handheld mode.
you might want to try using Activities, where you can have a completely different desktop layout (panels, widgets, desktop icons, etc) and easily switch between them.
also there was a bug with 5.24 that caused plasmoids to shift upon reboot which has largely been fixed in 5.27… so it may be worth upgrading now that it’s easily available.
Got the same problem, although it can happen with a single monitor. My widgets get moved all the time, even in Plasma 6.2.
Sometimes, when it comes back from sleep, or on restarts. Sometimes when I swap the output to a different display of the same resolution. Sometimes with no discernible reason at all. Widgets don’t seem to be very respected members of the family, they get pushed around
Activities seem like an idea worth trying, although I’m skeptical - what a user is in by default is an activity already, so how would having multiple solve the problem?
see this link about solving the jumping widgets issues, maybe some thing there can help.
for activities i guess the best way to describe it is somewhere between your user and an entirely new user.
you don’t have to relog as different user, but you can have different settings for some things about your desktop that are normally just for you… as tho you were a different user.
things like different wallpaper, different widgets (tho the panels are the same), certain settings for how you interact with the desktop (tho virtual workspaces or tiling are the same).
supposedly you can even have different pinned apps in the task manager, but i’ve not been able to get this to work.
the main thing tho is you can have an activity that has your focus on just on task and have all the programs and windows open for that task without having to clutter up your regular default activity with those specific items.
Hey, thanks for the reply, much appreciated. Did you perchance leave out the link in the first sentence that you wanted to send? It only shows plaintext for me.
I’m familiar with the concept of activities, though never saw the need to use them. Are you using them to separate like, one containing your widgets, and another, your apps?
i don’t tend to use activities too much at the moment but if there were some work done on it, i would revisit… seems like a promising feature that none of the competition have.
