On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 at 14:05, Joachim Wagner
Generally, I'd say it's a bug in KDE if widget placement gets messed up just because one forgets to switch on the screen.
Indeed this is a bug. If this bug wasn't there, I wouldn't have been trying out this complicated scheme.
[...] I have not figured out a way to boot to graphical target automatically when monitor is switched on and boot to multi-user.target when monitor is switched off.
Have you considered something like currernt_target=get_current_runlevel_target desired_target=get_desired_runlevel_target
if [ "$current_target" = "$desired_target" ]; then echo "continuing boot..." else echo "wrong runlevel target; switching..." set_runlevel_target $desired_target shutdown -r now fi
No. I did not consider this and this gives me a thought to try this out. Thank you for the idea. I could try the command "init 3" in place of "shutdown -r now" above. This is in case monitor-get-edid turns non-zero. Ultimately I want to do something where the graphical target waits till I switch on the monitor. So when I want the PC in headless mode, I don't switch on the monitor. In case I change my mind, all I need to do is switch on the monitor and the PC should boot into graphical mode (runlevel 5). So there are three scenarious 1. I power on the PC without the monitor switched on, the PC should boot into runlevel 3 2. I power on the PC with the monitor switched on, the PC should boot into runlevel 5 with autologin 3. I power on the PC without the monitor switched on, the PC should boot into runlevel 3. But any moment after the PC is booted, if I switch on the monitor, the PC should switch to runlevel 5 with autologin. I guess, I will have to deep dive into systemd scripts. At the moment I am going to try out this. monitor-check.service [Unit] Description=Monitor Check Service Before=display-manager.service [Service] ExecStart=/home/mbhanguin/bin/monitor_check Type=simple [Install] WantedBy=graphical.target The script /home/mbhangui/bin/monitor_check will be. Though I am not sure if this will work. #!/bin/sh file=/etc/sysconfig/displaymanager /usr/sbin/monitor-get-edid >/dev/null 2>&1 if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then sed -i 's}#DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN=.*}DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN="mbhangui"}g' $file else sed -i 's}DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN=.*}#DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN="mbhangui"}g' $file fi -- Regards Manvendra - http://www.indimail.org GPG Pub Key http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xC7CBC760014D250C -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org