Description of problem: Application windows are started on the screen in the same spot. If I move the window and then close it, the next time, that application window is placed in the same spot as it was when it was last closed. I have selected Window Management -> Window Behavior -> Advanced -> Window Placement -> Minimal Overlapping. Furthermore, I have *always* had that setting. It just recently stopped working. I also see that focus is broken in that closing a window fails to change focus to last focused window. This, too, is new behavior, but I do not know of a setting to adjust it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kwin-5.19.5-4.fc33.x86_64 kf5-kwindowsystem-5.75.0-1.fc33.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open new application, say konsole. 2. Open same application again. 3. Actual results: Application windows are on top of each other. Expected results: Application windows are not overlapped. Additional info:
Can you confirm this is regression with kf5-5.75? Did this perform properly prior to installing that recent update?
Oh, sorry; I missed your comment. Yes. A downgrade restored correct placement of windows. My test is opening two konsole windows, back to back. Now they open non-overlapped again. I downgraded everything that matched kf5*5.75, so I cannot tell you who the culprit is.
Also, I was wrong about focus being a problem. It is fine as far as I can see.
Let me know, if you want me to selectively upgrade to narrow down or identify the faulty change. In the mean time, I am updating with --exclude=kf5\* to avoid the annoying bug.
I finally could not start KDE after updating with updates-testing and excluding kf5*. So, I allowed kf5* to get back to a system that would actually boot, starting the desktop. Now I was back to the very annoying application window placement being broken. In an effort to narrow down the problem, I did: * sudo dnf downgrade kf5-kwindowsystem -- no help * sudo dnf downgrade kf5-plasma -- no help * sudo dnf downgrade kwin kwin-common kwin-libs kwin-x11 -- disaster -- no desktop again (It looks like one of kwin, kwin-common, kwin-libs, or kwin-x11 is missing some dependency, because the desktop won't start when I downgrade these.) So, it looks like the update that was pushed introduced a bug in application window placement.
The problem was a setting that was updated: System Settings -> Window Management -> Window Behavior -> Advanced the checkbox for "Allow KDE apps..." was selected. Unchecking the box restored the original behavior. Now opening multiple konsole windows doesn't result in all opening in same spot. So it wasn't ... -> Advanced -> Window Placement -> Minimal Overlapping broken. I selected notabug, but it really *is* a bug when someone decides to arbitrarily change a setting. It is unexpected and very unwelcome. And it seems to happen often with KDE, unfortunately.