Hi

I added two note widgets to my plasma desktop and arranged them nicely on the right screen edge and I really enjoy their
right screen edge position because I am a right-screen-edge-positioneer fetishist

Sometimes it happens that I have to reboot. After (auto) login I witnessed, to my horror, the note-widgets moved themselves to the MIDDLE!! of the screen without my command to do so

I recorded that incident so that you can enjoy my consternation:

https://youtu.be/hUl5ChbCVPM

Why is that so?

System:
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.67.0
Qt Version: 5.14.1
Kernel Version: 5.5.6-arch1-1
OS Type: 64-bit

Did you lock the widgets?

Mamarok wrote:Did you lock the widgets?

If you mean --> Desktop-RMB->Configure Desktop->Icons->Lock in place... yes, but that locks only the ICONS in place, not widgets.
Or do you mean a different "Lock" mechanism which I am not aware of?

When you right-click on the desktop, there is an option to lock the widgets.

Edit: oops, sorry, my bad, somehow this option has gone, and it is not available in the Folder View type desktop anyway. Looks like a regression to me...

That's all I get with a RMB on desktop:

[EDIT] just noticed your edit...

Finally I possibly found a solution the the problem...
It seems that moving widget is a combination of sddm screen resolution and my plasma resolution.
Because I use a 4k screen sddm always starts in native 4k resolution and on plasma login plasma switches to my desired 1920x1080.
It seems plasma has some trouble positioning the widget to the correct position after loading from sddm login with different resolution.
So I guess my custom position information of the widget was still there but was somehow applied with respect to 4k dimensions leftover of the sddm screen.

As solution I adapted my plasma resolution to my sddm resolution via editing "/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup" and adding

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xrandr --output HDMI-1 --mode 1920x1080 -r 100

to match my plasma resolution. Now the widget stays on the same position after re-login...

It took me so long to find sddm as the reason for this because I have autologin enabled and simply missed that sddm thing without seeing
the sddm screen going directly to the plasma desktop...

Thanks for posting the workaround for this issue, I'm going to try it myself.

Is there any way the widget locations could be changed to make such a workaround unnecessary?

For example, the X-Y Locations could be saved as percentages, then the actual location could be worked out on startup by calculating the percentage against the saved screen ratio/size. This could also be used in event that the user changes the screen resolution.

In settings I went to Start up and Shutdown.
Then I selected Login Screen.
At the bottom of the page I clicked on the button called Synchronize Settings.
When the pop up appeared I clicked on Synchronize settings and then I rebooted.
So far my weather widget is staying put in the lower left of my screen instead of moved to the center of the screen.
I hope this helps Somebody.

The sys settings only worked for 1 second after reboot. KDE real has to address this. Imagine having 7-8 widgets nicely placed.......

Edit: Paule's solution:

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xrandr --output HDMI-1 --mode 1920x1080 -r 100

Had the same result.

What now?

This problem is totally badass so I give you Solution of this :-
kde splash screen is the main culprit
set it to "none"

How to do:-
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just search splash screen
and set it into "none"

Reason
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when you login, a boot splash animation appears on the screen
when it appears screen resolution is fluctuate during every relogin.

its 100% work ... Don't try to edit scripts in root system
this is the simple way.

after this you can shutdown or restart in any way
using terminal or soft-key
your widget never reposition

Hi, didn't want to make a whole other thread for this, but where would I go to download plasma for my desktop so far I've made it here, but not sure where to go next

mattheww wrote:Hi, didn't want to make a whole other thread for this, but where would I go to download plasma for my desktop so far I've made it here, but not sure where to go next

For download Plasma desktop, go to Discover Store if you use Kde and download it

I was having the same issue and instead went to Edit Panel -> Add Spacer (fill in empty space on panel). The spacer was not opaque until reboot. My widgets no longer move.

I was having the same issue and instead went to Edit Panel -> Add Spacer (fill in empty space on panel). The spacer was not opaque until reboot. My widgets no longer move.

Thank you! I tried all previous answers, but this fixed my the issue for me!