Comment # 12 on bug 757273 from Tristan Miller

(In reply to Tristan Miller from comment #10)
> The problem was still reproducible for me on KDE 4.10.3, 4.10.4, and 4.10.5.
> However, yesterday I upgraded to KDE 4.11.1 and now the display settings are
> correctly applied on login.  However, the process is a bit annoying in that
> immediately after logging in, the display settings are incorrect (that is,
> the relative position of my two monitors is wrong).  It's only after several
> seconds (and after several applications already get loaded, and display in
> the wrong places) that the orientation gets switched to my preferred
> settings.  So it's still buggy, but much less buggy than before.

I recently upgraded to KDE 4.11.1 (using KScreen 1.0.71) and now the display
settings seem to get applied much sooner in the login process -- before any
other applications get loaded, in fact.  So lately I haven't been able to
reproduce this problem.