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I have a Toshiba L655 with an ati video card and am getting this very annoying scroll bar on the desktop which actually scrolls the desktop, meaning that my desktop icons in folder view aren't all visible unless I use the scrollbar. This started about a month or so ago with one of the KDE upgrades that happened not sure which ones! AT first it only happened once in a while so I thought it would correct itself but it has only gotten worse with time. This scroll bar now appears after every reboot of the system.
I did find a work around but it's a huge pain to do it after every reboot of the system and that is to change the view of the desktop to a different view and apply the change, Then go back into the current desktop and change it back to folder view which then rearranges all of my desktop icons which also resizes them to a very large size which requires a total of 4 clicks or more to put my desktop back to my normal view.
Is anyone else having this problem?
Is this a bug? I did find a bug about this but is was in past versions that are very old.
Here is the system info as listed by the KDE info applet:
Linux 3.9.9-1-Arch
KDE SC Version 4.10.5
Sorry I can't copy the VGA section of this info from the KDEinfocenter applet and way to much to type out by hand
And here is what lspci displays for VGA:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Madison [Mobility Radeon HD 5650/5750 / 6530M/6550M]
And here is the lsmod results fo radeon:
radeon 754506 6
ttm 65164 1 radeon
drm_kms_helper 35086 1 radeon
drm 230077 8 ttm,drm_kms_helper,radeon
i2c_algo_bit 5391 1 radeon
i2c_core 22479 5 drm,i2c_i801,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,radeon
Please HELLLPPPP! This is very annoying to say the least.
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Thanks in advance.
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I have the same problem. After every reboot, i have a scroll bar on the right side of the screen and my icons are not visible. It's like KDE is setting the desktop size to be WAY larger than the screen resolution.
My fix, though, was a little different--and more time-consuming. I log out and then log back in and it seems to be fixed every time I do it. It's very annoying to say the least. I hadn't tried changing the view type and changing it back, so at least I learned THAT.
I don't even know what causes this, so I don't know how to fix it. I have my desktop layout to "Folder" so it shows my desktop folder as icons on the desktop. I'm open to any suggestions to fix it!
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I was searching the internet for the same problem when I found this thread.
I have the same problem, with the newest (KDE) packages. My desktop is set to folder view, and not all icons are visible but there is a scrollbar at the right side of the screen. However, sometimes it is as it should be and sometimes it is not.
I thought that it maybe has to do with old (KDE) configuration files, and I made a new activity, but with the same result.
On another computer with the same installation, all is functioning well.
Is there meanwhile maybe a (better) solution?
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