I am tested wily ,xenial, kubuntu, kernels 4.2 , 4.4 on brand new thinkpad 
t450s with thinkpad pro dock 90w.
The laptop and the dock has latest fimware !
Intel graphics driver is at latest state too.
Also tested latest 4.5 drm intel nightly. All external displays work  always 
when directly attached to the laptop.
But with laptop docked, external displays are only running after boot, but fail 
when wake up from sleep mode configured in kde
closing lid. This is a very common user powersetting an is awaited to work. 
Most of the times external displays could reconfigured i.e by script produced 
from arandr ( gtk gui wrapper for xrandr ). But a universal script workaround 
seems complicated with acpi, systemd in userland for all thinkable combinations 
of possible displays ( up to three include lcd on laptop are possible).

It should simply work out of the box.

Additional info i invested a lot of time in kernel logs and trying grub start 
parameter, cause there were other ugly bug with intel 915 driver ( pci lied SDE 
etc fixed in 4.5 ) , there is also a point in the bios configure 10s to wait 
for notice external displays. Also 2014 the dock had a bug ( also on windows 
with external displays which was fixed by new firmware ).
It seems simply the dock does not pass external displays connected after laptop 
and external displays got sleep mode after wake up, prove is made by 
plug/unplugging external display and reenable it in kde. Also open windows were 
only reconstructed
after awake with kernel 4.4 /4.5 after manual reenable, with kernel 4.2 most of 
the time also plasma crashes and simply undock
crash x-server too. Any idea what to look next ?
Regards

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