Hi all. I have a strange problem with my second monitor in KDE.

After setting everything up the system is very stable and I have no problems. However, when I restart the computer, my second display doesn't show any Desktop, Widgets, Panels, or Wallpaper. The mouse and applications can be dragged over no problem though so the monitor is indeed on and the system is still able to communicate with it.

In order to restore everything to a working state, I open DISPLAY CONFIGURATION and disable then re-enable the second monitor then all my desktop settings go back to normal. I could probably solve this in the short term by writing a start up script to do this for me every time I launch the system but I'm hoping somebody knows more about what is going on? I'm quite new to KDE so I'm not really even sure where to start looking for logs etc to see what is happening.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! System information is listed below if this helps.

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    vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
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          date: 06/28/2014
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                size: 207GiB
                capacity: 207GiB
                capabilities: primary bootable journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink 64bit extents ext4 ext2 initialized
                configuration: created=2017-01-07 02:00:31 filesystem=ext4 lastmountpoint=/ modified=2017-01-08 19:33:45 mount.fstype=ext4 mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered mounted=2017-01-07 14:53:07 state=mounted
           *-volume:1
                description: Extended partition
                physical id: 2
                bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0,2
                logical name: /dev/sda2
                size: 15GiB
                capacity: 15GiB
                capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended
              *-logicalvolume
                   description: Linux swap volume
                   physical id: 5
                   logical name: /dev/sda5
                   version: 1
                   serial: 99fc4a01-96a9-4668-b692-2d69ce06c48b
                   size: 15GiB
                   capacity: 15GiB
                   capabilities: nofs swap initialized
                   configuration: filesystem=swap pagesize=4096
  *-power UNCLAIMED
       description: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
       product: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
       vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
       physical id: 1
       version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
       serial: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
       capacity: 32768mWh

I hate myself for this but... bump?