I’ve installed latest 20.1.1 Manjaro KDE flavor on my HP laptop with external monitor connected. The issue is that right after install and reboot to fresh system it shows only KDE wallpaper on external monitor, no taskbar, no KDE launcher menu, nothing. But I still can run Krunner via Alt+Space and start apps, Konsole and so on. Even “plasma --restart” brings up all desktop tools and widgets and everything works flawlessly just till next restart. Monitor config in System Settings is so that laptop screen is not enabled and external is enabled and set as primary, but still. I googled a bit and played around with appletrc file without luck. Any known and solid solution for this?
I’d expect normal behavior when after login I have normal, functional desktop on my external monitor with laptop screen disabled in accordance with my System Settings described above.
Sorry, I was writing from my memory sitting on Fedora (which btw I’m trying to move from to Manjaro). The actual command is “plasmashell --replace” which brings all desktop tools to the correct monitor.
– Logs begin at Mon 2020-10-12 14:30:42 EDT, end at Tue 2020-10-13 13:58:54 EDT. –
Oct 13 13:57:35 manjaro kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT, Index (0x000000005) is beyond end of object (length 0x5) (20200528/exoparg2-393)
Oct 13 13:57:35 manjaro kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method _TZ.GETP due to previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20200528/psparse-529)
Oct 13 13:57:35 manjaro kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method _TZ.CHGZ._CRT due to previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20200528/psparse-529)
Oct 13 13:57:35 manjaro kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT, Index (0x000000005) is beyond end of object (length 0x5) (20200528/exoparg2-393)
Oct 13 13:57:35 manjaro kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method _TZ.GETP due to previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20200528/psparse-529)
Oct 13 13:57:35 manjaro kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method _TZ.CHGZ._CRT due to previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20200528/psparse-529)
Oct 13 13:57:38 manjaro kernel: usb 1-1.2: 1:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x83
Oct 13 13:57:38 manjaro kernel: usb 1-1.2: 2:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x4
Oct 13 13:57:50 manjaro kernel: usb 1-1.2: 2:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x4
I don’t think it’s a matter of some crash as I’m not getting any alert. And it works as it should when laptop lid is just open. All happens when i work on external monitor with laptop lid closed. Looks like manjaro just can’t detect or properly process this situation. BTW, external screen is connected by HDMI if it does matter somehow.
Check the power settings on system settings. Disable everything concerning timeout and standby. Then test again (this is only to test if it’s related to those settings).
Lid switch is good also - Fedora and Windoza works flawlessly with it. Moreover, I tried tons of OSs on this laptop+monitor config - Ubuntus, RedHats, many of them. Only Manjaro/KDE plays this dumb. Now thinking to try some previous 'jaro version or just other flavor like xfce. Or just give up with it till better times and still stay on Fedora.
I have the same exact problem. When I start up my laptop with an external monitor connected it boots to a black screen (no icons or panels just the Plank dock). I run plasmashell --replace then press Alt+Shift+F12 and i can use my desktop (just have to rearrange the panel icons).
The problem doesn’t happen if I boot up the laptop without the external monitor and connect it after logging in.