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LiteMan

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Registered: 2024-10-19

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Glitchy NetworkManager widget in KDE

Hello everyone, this is my first time posting here

I have been having this visual glitch for a while and I was wondering how I could get it to go away :

(I do not know which version this started in or if it was due to a NetworkManager or KDE Plasma upgrade.

I'm supposed to have 3 wired connections in the list. The glitch also happens when the Wi-Fi is disabled and I only have VPNs and Wired connections

$ sudo pacman -Q plasma-nm networkmanager networkmanager-openvpn networkmanager-qt plasma-desktop plasma-workspace 
plasma-nm 6.2.1-1
networkmanager 1.50.0-1
networkmanager-openvpn 1.12.0-1
networkmanager-qt 6.7.0-1
plasma-desktop 6.2.1-1
plasma-workspace 6.2.1.1-1

Thank you in advance for your help !

Wayfly

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Registered: 2023-07-09

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Re: Glitchy NetworkManager widget in KDE

Maybe you could try reading this article https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#Troubleshooting :)

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Re: Glitchy NetworkManager widget in KDE

That looks like a broken theme.   What theme are you trying to use?

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Glitchy NetworkManager widget in KDE

I can confirm this, not sure whether it's down to NM or Qt 6.8 or plasma-nm 6.2 having some bug.  it feels like it's listing inactive connections as well. e.g. if you compare ip addr, I have two unused network devices that should normally get filtered, but I'm suspecting lead to a listing now

Archcan_98

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Registered: 2023-09-08

Posts: 45

Re: Glitchy NetworkManager widget in KDE

This is a long lasting issue here, and it was introduced permanently in plasma 6.1.5, possibly dot 4. Did not find anything for fixing it.

Adding this  QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb to etc/profile or home .bash_profile doesn't change anything. Plus, all themes have the same side effect (breeze dark is the default).

LiteMan

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Registered: 2024-10-19

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Re: Glitchy NetworkManager widget in KDE

Maybe you could try reading this article https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#Troubleshooting

I tried and the problem persisted

That looks like a broken theme.   What theme are you trying to use?

I'm using the theme Otto

I can confirm this, not sure whether it's down to NM or Qt 6.8 or plasma-nm 6.2 having some bug.  it feels like it's listing inactive connections as well. e.g. if you compare ip addr, I have two unused network devices that should normally get filtered, but I'm suspecting lead to a listing now

The number of ghost connections is exactly the same as the number of valid entries in the list, meaning if a wifi appears, a ghost entry appears too. I currently have 1 active LAN, 2 LANs, 1 WLAN, 1  WPAN, 3 VPNs  and 1 Wifi in range, and 9 "ghost" connections = 1 + 2 +1 +1 + 3 + 1.

This is a long lasting issue here, and it was introduced permanently in plasma 6.1.5, possibly dot 4. Did not find anything for fixing it.

Adding this  QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb to etc/profile or home .bash_profile doesn't change anything. Plus, all themes have the same side effect (breeze dark is the default).

Should I open an issue @ plasma then ?

GeorgeJP

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Registered: 2020-01-28

Posts: 188

Re: Glitchy NetworkManager widget in KDE

Should I open an issue @ plasma then ?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=300167

Archcan_98

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Registered: 2023-09-08

Posts: 45

Re: Glitchy NetworkManager widget in KDE

Thanks for the given links George JP. The latest plasma packages (6.2.2) have no effect on faulty entries.

Unless a correction has been applied to Qt 6.8.0, there is nothing abnormal there (Rawhide) for the same kde main components. Only network_manager has an higher version.

Operating System: Fedora Linux 42
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.7.0
Qt Version: 6.8.0
Kernel Version: 6.12.0-0.rc4.20241025gitae90f6a6170d.42.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland

$ rpm -qa *\NetworkManager\*
NetworkManager-libnm-1.51.2-2.fc42.x86_64
NetworkManager-1.51.2-2.fc42.x86_64
NetworkManager-pptp-1.2.12-7.fc41.x86_64
NetworkManager-team-1.51.2-2.fc42.x86_64
NetworkManager-vpnc-1.2.8-8.fc41.x86_64
NetworkManager-wwan-1.51.2-2.fc42.x86_64
NetworkManager-wifi-1.51.2-2.fc42.x86_64
NetworkManager-openconnect-1.2.10-6.fc41.x86_64
NetworkManager-l2tp-1.20.16-2.fc41.x86_64
NetworkManager-libreswan-1.2.22-2.fc42.x86_64
NetworkManager-openvpn-1.12.0-2.fc41.x86_64
NetworkManager-bluetooth-1.51.2-2.fc42.x86_64
NetworkManager-adsl-1.51.2-2.fc42.x86_64
NetworkManager-ppp-1.51.2-2.fc42.x86_64
NetworkManager-config-connectivity-fedora-1.51.2-2.fc42.noarch
kf6-networkmanager-qt-6.7.0-1.fc42.x86_64

No trace of NetworkManager 1.51.2 package for Arch?