Hey

KDE 4.2.1 has been doing a very good job for me until now. Let me describe the situation.

I have a laptop which has a standalone monitor next to it. When i use the laptop at home it just stands on my desk, connected to the monitor. This works pretty good with xinerama and all. I also use the laptop on the road and thus without the monitor being connected.

Now for some reason when i disconnect the monitor and then restart KDE, plasma crashes at startup. I never had the problem before, it just started yesterday. When i alter my xorg.conf file to show i have the second monitor there are no problems at all. I can't provide a useful backtrace as this only happens with my 'live' install and i don't really want to get this one dirty with dbg packages.

Note: This doesn't happen on my trunk build

I guess there must be something wrong with a configuration file somewhere but i've read before that just removing the .kde directory isn't the way to go.

What can i do to resolve this issue?

Thanks

Sounds like a bug in Kephal that was fixed after release if you are running KDE 4.2. KDE 4.2 will likely recieve the fix in KDE 4.2.2

Ok thanks, i fixed my problem for now by switching between two config files

I noticed that when i removed plasma-appletsrc the problem got 'solved'.
I've got one for my dualscreen setup and one for my singlescreen now.

All i need to do is type:

dualscreen.sh

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kquitapp plasma
cp ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-appletsrc.dualscreen ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-appletsrc
plasma


or singlescreen.sh

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kquitapp plasma
cp ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-appletsrc.singlescreen ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-appletsrc
plasma


Guess i can live with this for a month