Description of problem: kcmshell4 display is supposed to give the display adjusting function--ie choosing which display to use, choosing the resolution of the display, etc. This was how it workied in the past (mageia 2 3 and maybe even earlier) Now however it give the same output as kcmshell4 kgamma (Note that the bug does not appear to be in kcmshell4 itself, since if I copy in a version from Mageia 2, it behaves in exactly the same way). It appears to communicate with something via the dbus, but I have no idea what) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Run kcmshell4 display 2.A window opens with the gamma adjustment tool. It is precisely the same window as if one runs kcmshell4 kgamma There does not appear to be any option which will give the diplay adjustment window, which it did before (earlier versions of kcmshell4). Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce:
It appears that Mageia 4.1 installs kscreen and plasma-applet-kscreen which block krandr. When I installed krandr removing kscreen and plasma-applet-kscreen, suddenly kcmshell4 display works again and gives both the display selector and the gamma. Also, in System Settings->Display and Monitor I get a decent option to pick the screens. The Mageia 4.1 installation procedure is broken as far as the display option is concerned. I have no idea what kscreen was supposed to do, but it certainly breaks stuff.
'kcmshell4 kscreen' opens the display configuration window. This wiki page describes the reasoning for the switch from krandr to kscreen as default: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:Kscreen
I agree that this is not the place to argue the relative merits of kscreen vx krandr. However it is still a bug somewhere *kcmshell4?) that kcmshell4 display does not produce the display adjustment facility when kscreen is used, but does when krandr is used, which was my original bug report. The display option is still a valid option if kscreen is used, and should do something sensible if kscreen is used. Also kcmshell4 --list does not list kscreen as an option, although running kcmshell4 kscreen does produce a huge window with the kscreen display (and if the people who wrote that wiki page believe it is modern, intuitive and user-friendly interface", their notion of those words differs a lot from mine, but that again is irrelevant)
Still a problem in Mageia 5. kscreen not listed as option to kcmshell4 and kcmshell4 display gives same effect as kcmscreen4 kgamma
Hardware: i586 => x86_64Version: 4 => 5
Assignee: bugsquad => kde
I guess the main thing would be to have kscreen listed as an option for kcomshell5 and kcmshell 5 (sorry that in the above couple of comments I use kscreen instead of kcmshell.) The kde people refuse to fix this in kde4. I will test in kde5 as well.
Closing as OLD, because KDE is entirely different in Mga6 and later. Mga5 is no longer officially supported.
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDCC: (none) => marja11Resolution: (none) => OLD