Hello, all! New to your forum, new to Kubuntu and still somewhat new (since October) to Linux. Like many newbies, I confess to a lot of distro hopping (mostly great experiences) and I finally seem to have settled on Kubuntu as the best distro/DE solution for a Lenovo ThinkPad X131e that I picked up along the way for $40 on eBay to be my "banger" to learn on. FWIW, this ThinkPad has been expanded along the way in its previous life to 8Gb of RAM and carries an mSATA SSD, too, which is kinda cool, though it's only 20Gb.
To start with, I was installing reasonably lightweight distros on the SSB because why not? Speed, etc. And that's where I first installed Kubuntu (just a week or so ago). The partition I had created for any distro on that SSD mSATA was 15Gb in order to leave the empty space I've come to understand that SSDs need. I also enabled the backports to get the latest Plasma. Everything worked well for me...until I started getting notifications about a GNOME runtime update pending that was going to need a chunk of space that might not be available for it.
At that point, I decided the mSATA isn't worth the trouble (I might use it as simple storage...but I've already discovered I can't remove it because the one screw is so tight that I'm afraid I'll either round off the head or put so much pressure on it that I'll damage something below). One day, I'll pop for a SSD that can replace the HD that's in it...but, meanwhile, I've installed Kubuntu again, this time on the HD, to give it the space it needs for not only updates (20.04 coming!) but maybe a few more apps.
So, that second install has gone well and it is *identical* to the one on the mSATA but for one small thing: I went online to find the default wallpaper that came with KDE 5.16 as I prefer it to the one that gets installed with 5.18. But that's it.
Now (finally!) to the question: In each of these installs I have added 3 widgets (CPU, Memory and Network) and sized and positioned them where I want them. With my first Kubuntu install (on the mSATA) they stay in place with any restart or cold start. But with the newer Kubuntu install on the HD, in just a few days I've already had episodes where the widgets will be loaded but they are scattered on the desktop and not at all where I had placed them. Other things, like apps pinned to the Taskbar, are right where I put them...but the widgets wander. And this is not every time, mind you. Two times out of three, a restart or a cold start will find them sitting in the correct spot. But I'm just wondering if something somewhere needs to be set or adjusted...or if this is just a strange little "burp" that's going to happen.
To start with, I was installing reasonably lightweight distros on the SSB because why not? Speed, etc. And that's where I first installed Kubuntu (just a week or so ago). The partition I had created for any distro on that SSD mSATA was 15Gb in order to leave the empty space I've come to understand that SSDs need. I also enabled the backports to get the latest Plasma. Everything worked well for me...until I started getting notifications about a GNOME runtime update pending that was going to need a chunk of space that might not be available for it.
At that point, I decided the mSATA isn't worth the trouble (I might use it as simple storage...but I've already discovered I can't remove it because the one screw is so tight that I'm afraid I'll either round off the head or put so much pressure on it that I'll damage something below). One day, I'll pop for a SSD that can replace the HD that's in it...but, meanwhile, I've installed Kubuntu again, this time on the HD, to give it the space it needs for not only updates (20.04 coming!) but maybe a few more apps.
So, that second install has gone well and it is *identical* to the one on the mSATA but for one small thing: I went online to find the default wallpaper that came with KDE 5.16 as I prefer it to the one that gets installed with 5.18. But that's it.
Now (finally!) to the question: In each of these installs I have added 3 widgets (CPU, Memory and Network) and sized and positioned them where I want them. With my first Kubuntu install (on the mSATA) they stay in place with any restart or cold start. But with the newer Kubuntu install on the HD, in just a few days I've already had episodes where the widgets will be loaded but they are scattered on the desktop and not at all where I had placed them. Other things, like apps pinned to the Taskbar, are right where I put them...but the widgets wander. And this is not every time, mind you. Two times out of three, a restart or a cold start will find them sitting in the correct spot. But I'm just wondering if something somewhere needs to be set or adjusted...or if this is just a strange little "burp" that's going to happen.
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