On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 01:18:28 -0700
Mike Bird <mgb-trinity@...> wrote:

> OK, for comparison purposes I'm back to 14.0.5 and Stretch.  (Something of
> a struggle as Tim's server became inaccessible again during the
> downgrade.)
> 
> Dual display with first for Trinity and second was intended to be non-TDE
> as before but TDE won't cooperate on that.  However 14.0.5 works without
> flashing or crashing.  The unlock screen dialog pops up two or three or
> four times after login but things eventually settle down.
> 
> Instead of the two lock files in 14.0.7 PSB there is a single lock file
> in 14.0.5: /tmp/tde-mgb/kdesktop_lock_lockfile
> 
> However TDE 14.0.5 is running a second desktop on the second display.
> Before upgrading to 14.0.7 and rolling back to 14.0.5 the systray randr
> would allow me to specify which display was primary and which display(s)
> TDE could or could not use.  But now systray randr only shows one screen
> and doesn't enable those options, despite TDE actually using two displays.
> 
> xrandr gives different results in each screen which don't list the other
> screen.  And I can't get kicker to appear in the second display although
> it says that two instances are running and won't start another.
> 
> Behind the scenes, some weirdness is going on:
> 
> # ps ax | grep kde
>    70 ?        S      0:00 [kdevtmpfs]
>  8135 ?        SL     0:08 kded [tdeinit] --new-startup
>  8187 ?        Sl     0:01 /opt/trinity/bin/kdesktop
>  8188 ?        Sl     0:00 /opt/trinity/bin/kdesktop
>  8191 ?        S      0:00 /opt/trinity/bin/kdesktop_lock --internal 8188
>  8193 ?        S      0:00 /opt/trinity/bin/kdesktop_lock --internal 8188
>  8201 ?        S      0:00 /opt/trinity/bin/kdesktop_lock --internal 8187
>  8495 ?        S      0:00 /opt/trinity/bin/kdesktop_lock --internal 8187
>  8536 ?        S      0:00 /opt/trinity/bin/kdesktop_lock --internal 8187
>  8562 ?        S      0:00 /opt/trinity/bin/kdesktop_lock --internal 8187
>  8581 ?        S      0:00 /opt/trinity/bin/kdesktop_lock --internal 8187
>  8582 ?        Z      0:00 [kdesktop_lock] <defunct>
> 12492 pts/3    S+     0:00 grep kde
> 
> Has anyone had success with multiple displays in 14.0.7?  Preferably with
> TDE on one display and the second as an X display unused by TDE?


Yeah, this is exactly the behavior i have reported years ago, and the only
way to avoid it is remove the kdesktop_lockn executable (this doesnt not
cause any problems except inability to lock obviously, and inability to
shutdown directly from TDE session).

Now, about how it worked for you before.... 

> But now systray randr only shows one screen and doesn't enable those options, 
> despite TDE actually using two displays.

Randr not showing other monitor is a correct behavior in case of two
X screens, so if it does showed them before you had X configured
differently - both monitors were on a single X screen and this bug didnt
trigger.


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  Nick Koretsky (nick.koretsky@...)