Notification position changes

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Hi all, today something weird happenend with my volume notification.

When my desktop does not have any windows open and i hover with my mousepointer over the volume icon in the system tray, the popup for the volume appears in the right hand corner of my screen.
When i have a window open, the popup will appear in the correct position just above the volume icon.

I made a small video of it just to clarify:
[video]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31394911/Notification.m4v[/video]

I searched for some setting for this behaviour in ~/.kde4/share/config but could not find anything.
The file plasma-desktop-appletsrc does have position setting stored for all the applets such as the system tray.
But not for where popups should be displayed.

It’s not a big deal, just weird.
Somewhere i messed up something because this is not default behaviour.

The easiest way is to start again with a clean home directory, but that is not worth the trouble.
So i hope that any of you can point me to some file to edit.

Thank you.

Oh, and it’s on openSUSE 13.1 with KDE 4.11.5 :slight_smile:

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mine is exactly the same as your on KDE 4.13 so perhaps it is the default behaviour.

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I’ve never ever noticed this until you pointed it out. Now it’s gonna bug me!! :frowning:

It’s not just the volume icon. For me it’s also klipper and fcitx.

There is an open bug report on it over at KDE

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317783

following a tip from the bug report I went to . . .

configure desktop > application appearance > icons > advanced > dialogs

and changed the icon size from 32 to 22

this corrected the issue for me. However, the icon size for dialogs is then a little small for my liking so I’m prepared to live with the issue.

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Well i can not reproduce it in opensuse 13.1 in a virtual machine, or debian wheezy and kubuntu 14.04 in a virtual machine.

I’m going to create a new user on my system and see if this behaviour remains.

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It does not remain :slight_smile:

So i looked at what was different.
I have height of my panel set to 22 instead of the default 36 (pixels i guess?)

So i changed it back to 36 again and the problem was gone.
Changed it back to 22 again and it was still gone until after a reboot.

Keep the height at 36 and the problem is gone even after a reboot.

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I have added this information to the bugreport you found.

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I noticed that a few days ago. But it isn’t happening today. However, I’m running factory and KDE was updated to 4.14.0 this morning.