Is it mt imagination or does System Settings do almost nothing?

[oshunluvr]

First I had to delete kscreen because system settings/kscreen wouldn't save my monitor settings. Now I have to re-select the correct audio device every time I reboot.

Maybe it should be called "Temporary System Selections" instead of ...Settings as not much seems to stay "set."

[claydoh]

No issues here, though I have not sat at my desk and used a dual monitor setup since before October. Things were fine then in terms of enabling the second screen. No forgotten settings.

[Snowhog]

And you have of course, checked the permissions on your .Xauthority file?

[oshunluvr]

And you have of course, checked the permissions on your .Xauthority file?

No, I hadn't, but I own it.

[shag00]

I have the same issue on both 20.04 and 20.10. Play a movie and all is well but 10 minutes after it finishes my HDMI device just disappears and requires reboot to see it again and hear anything. There is some underlying problem introduced in 20.04 that affects a number of things to varying degrees of severity and randomness.

[GreyGeek]

When I leave a qemu/KVM VM *sometimes* my touchpad enables, ignoring the "disable when mouse is plugged in", and disrupts my typing. But, not every time. Haven't found a link between any activity in VM and the enabling of the touchpad.

Going to the settings I find that the touchpad is shown as disabled butt the settings buttons are greyed out. I have to log out and back in to restore the touchpad settings.

[oshunluvr]

I have the same issue on both 20.04 and 20.10. Play a movie and all is well but 10 minutes after it finishes my HDMI device just disappears and requires reboot to see it again and hear anything. There is some underlying problem introduced in 20.04 that affects a number of things to varying degrees of severity and randomness.

So maybe at least in the case of audio selection the issue lies elsewhere - other than in system settings. Seems silly that we can't "set" something and have it saved.

Kscreen is so bad it IME it should be considered a virus, or at least removed from distribution until it can be brought up to a functional level. I will say I'm having a couple other problems with Xorg at the 4K level that I don't have when running Wayland. Maybe I need to dig into that and figure out why I don't have Wayland window decorations so I can use it.

[shag00]

A number of the problems are not major but persistent and random so it's very hard to reproduce intentionally. At least it effects other people so maybe it might be addressed. Another one for me is log off, my system does not log off exactly the same way all the time, sometimes it takes 10-15 seconds, sometimes I get a black screen with Kubuntu on it but most of the time it works as expected.