Window positions change when a new window is open or when I change between desktops

[akae]

Hi
First, thanks for such a useful tool. It has notably improved my way of working. But a few weeks ago, it started to show a different behaviour, specially when I switch from one virtual desktop to another: Windows positions are lost and I have to reorganize everything in each desktop every time I change to it. This does not happen for manually placed windows or default shortcuts (win+left/right)

You can see the strange behaviour in this animated gif: https://imgur.com/a/xb6XB6Q
Please let me know if I can provide more info about my setup which helps to solve this issue.

OS: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) x86_64
Host: XPS 15 9560
Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64
Packages: 3212 (dpkg)
Shell: bash 5.0.3
Resolution: 1920x1080, 3840x1200
DE: KDE
WM: KWin
WM Theme: K01-d
Theme: Breeze Dark [KDE], Breeze-Dark [GTK3]
Icons: breeze-dark [KDE], breeze [GTK3]
Terminal: konsole
Terminal Font: Hack 12

[forcecore]

Same here, with 3840x1200 single monitor.

Plasma verison is:
extra/plasma-desktop 5.20.3-1 (plasma) [installed]
KDE Plasma Desktop

OS: Arch Linux x86_64 (updated 2020-11-15)
Kernel: Linux 5.9.8-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue, 10 Nov 2020 22:44:11 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Shell: bash 5.0.18
Resolution: 3840x1200
DE: KDE
WM: extra/kwin 5.20.3-1 (plasma) [installed]
WM Theme: K01-d
Theme: Breeze [KDE]
Icons: breeze
Terminal: konsole
Terminal Font: Dejavu Sans Mono Book 12

[forcecore]

It seems chrome browser reverts its size while other apps, such as discord, thunderbird, firefox, gvim, konsole don't.

[lucmos]

Thank you for reporting this bug!

I didn't do any changes, something must have been changed on the kwin side.
Unfortunately, I don't know what. Right now I don't have time to investigate this further, moreover atm I'm on a single monitor thus it is difficult to test.

[akae]

No worries, thanks for the update and for all the work.

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[de-es]

Same here, single monitor, happens since last summer.

It does only happen when I resized the window of a program with Meta + Numpad before. When I sized/moved it with Meta + Arrows, it stays at the current position. Looks like the current position is not stored somehow when using Meta + Numpad.

OS: Manjaro
KDE-Plasma: 5.20.4
KDE-Frameworks: 5.77.0

[SHU-red]

Same issue on my side.
I also used BetterQuickTiles before --> Same behavior
I switched to Ultrawide to see if the issue is still there --> Same behavior

This discussion may give some more context:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439272

I still bet this is due to the position not being saved and something triggering a "restore last position" that will then not restore the last quick position but instead the last user manipulated position.

For me not related to virtual desktops etc. --> Stored Window sizes seem to be set for all open windows of one instance etc.

System:    Kernel: 5.12.14-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.3 tk: Qt 5.15.2 
           wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 

[Nxllpointer]

Did anyone fix it? I have the same issue and cant really use my monitor because its basically a tv

[Nxllpointer]

@lucmos i found a "workaround". If you maximize and then immediately un-minimize the client after calling reposition() the window position will be saved or whatever but it works. If the Maximize Desktop effect is enabled it looks a bit weird but with it being disabled you dont see a difference. I have however still not found the cause of the source of the problem.