After my laptop wakes up from sleep its has a desktop unusable.

The place where plasma used to be is blank. But right clicking on it shows the context menu, but nothing is displayed there. Only thing I can do is restart or log out.

Please take a look at the picture. Windows have lost the border and in bottom place plasma is missing.


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If you open Konsole using Alt + F2, are KWin and Plasma still running?

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ps aux | grep kwin
ps aux | grep plasma

alt - f2 was not working or its out put was not getting displayed. Plasma must be working becouse I opened dolphin via folder view applet and opened ksnapshot to take the screen shot. I will check out the kwin thing.

Interesting. This sounds like the system has encountered issue determining the screen resolution and has placed the panel, window decorations and run command interface off screen.

Does causing the panels to relayout ( ie. connecting a monitor ) fix the issue?

bcooksley wrote:Interesting. This sounds like the system has encountered issue determining the screen resolution and has placed the panel, window decorations and run command interface off screen.

Does causing the panels to relayout ( ie. connecting a monitor ) fix the issue?

I dont understand what you mean by connecting a monitor. I am using a laptop.

I am seeing one more behavior. If the system is in sleep for more that say half an hour, then the kdm login screen does not even appear. Its pure black. But if I enter my password based on an assumption, it seems to be working then when I move my cursor it changes when it passes my notes in desktop. But at this point I cannot even log out. Only thing I can do is do a VT switch and reboot.

Plasma and kwin are running, I checked.

Do you use Desktop Effects? You may wish to disable them before entering hibernation, as your graphics card or KWin may not be restoring their states correctly.

By connecting a monitor I meant an external secondary monitor, which would cause KDE to reconfigure the screen.

bcooksley wrote:Do you use Desktop Effects? You may wish to disable them before entering hibernation, as your graphics card or KWin may not be restoring their states correctly.

By connecting a monitor I meant an external secondary monitor, which would cause KDE to reconfigure the screen.

You are correct that was the issue. After disabling desktop effects sleep is working correctly.
But this was working perfectly and suddenly broke maybe a bug is xerver stack.

Given how it affects the system, it is likely an issue in the X server, correct.