Portrait Mode is cut off like widescreen

[WhySoComplicated]

I have a secondary monitor with a 1920x1200 resolution that I use in portrait mode, so 1200x1920.

After the upgrade from Plasma 6.0 to Plasma 6.1, wallpaper and widgets on that monitor are cut off after 1200 pixels (vertically, so the bottom part of the monitor is black). I can still move program windows in that area, so the screen space definitely exists. Edit mode also attempts to be in widescreen, centered, so the bottom is cut off after 1200 pixels making widgets I managed to move down there inaccessible in edit mode.

Help please.

[soundofthunder]

Edit:- Corrected spelling in title to promote better search results.

[medmedin]

Don’t touch the resolution of the second monitor, and just change its rotation

[BG405]

I’m thinking more along these lines:

… maybe this setting has changed?

I don’t know about the widgets specifically but I do know that in at least a few Desktop Environments, those widgets have to be moved (or closed and re-launched) after a display change. Rotating the display should take care of that, but often it doesn’t.

Resolution is, indeed, changed with rotation. For vertical displays with the same pixel count, it’s less horizontally and more vertically. This needs to be taken into account with wallpapers, widget positioning, etc. .

[WhySoComplicated]

Don’t touch the resolution of the second monitor, and just change its rotation

That’s basically what these settings look like for me, the “Resolution” dropdown says 1920x1200 and doesn’t even offer 1200x1920. So that should be good.

… maybe this setting has changed?

Wallpaper Positioning says “Scaled and Cropped” (“Scaled, Keep Proportions” adds a white border around the image).
And that’s what it looks like, only it’s scaled and cropped to landscape orientation…

widgets have to be moved (or closed and re-launched) after a display change.

I had tried to move a widget into the black area of the screen, but now its bottom is cut off like it was on the bottom of the screen, and with the bottom of the edit mode view also cut off it’s now inaccessible in edit mode.

[soundofthunder]

Please post a screenshot of your full screen as it is, and od the System Settings → Display & Monitor settings page, just as @medmedin previously posted.

[WhySoComplicated]

Display settings:

Right screen:

You might notice that the bottom-most widget is cut off.

In edit mode:

Bottom-most widget isn’t even visible.

Making a screenshot of edit mode:

Oh look the whole width of the wallpaper!

[soundofthunder]

Is this in Wayland or X11?

Please provide some system information:

inxi --admin --verbosity=8 --filter --no-host --width

[WhySoComplicated]

I assume X11?

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[soundofthunder]

@WhySoComplicated

I assume X11?

Only you would know; and now that you have provided your system information, so do we.

Try switching to Wayland, and see if that makes a difference. Under Wayland, you will find possibly different options in Display & Monitor.

Reboot, and when you reach the SDDM login screen, the Wayland/X11 toggle can be found at the bottom/left corner of the screen.

[WhySoComplicated]

Huh it looks fine on Wayland. It even has the widgets and desktop icons where I had them before upgrading to Plasma 6.1

Thanks a bunch!

I wonder about other implications of using Wayland. E.g. mouse cursor speed was funky (mouse acceleration was reset) and I was greeted by a message about Fcitx (which seems to work without having to change anything).

PS: I mostly wonder if it’s worth trying to fix the portrait mode issues under X11 or if Wayland is the future anyway?

[soundofthunder]

@WhySoComplicated

Wayland is the future anyway

Indeed, it is. I doubt many would argue against that.

Most of the (developer) attention has been given to Wayland over the last year, or longer, and X11 by comparison has fallen by the wayside.

X11 is, well, let’s face it… a pig. There are confirmed bugs that have existed so long that there is now no concerted effort to fix them.

I’ve been using Wayland exclusively for a year (on AMD RX-580 graphics), and it has been stable and solid throughout that time. Plus the general performance is so much better than X11.

Those with some Nvidia graphics still have a few complications, but that’s mainly attributed to Nvidia than Wayland. As you have AMD graphics, I dare say any issues would be minimal.

My opinion is that unless you have mission-critical applications that only work with X11, there’s no pressing reason to avoid Wayland any longer.

[WhySoComplicated]

Then I’ll stick to Wayland and see how it goes. Thanks again!