KDE Plasma has been having several issues lately

Asakusa · 2025-07-18 01:52:59

Hi all,

I'm not sure what's going on, but my KDE Plasma has been experiencing multiple errors over the past few weeks. Most of the issues seem to happen when I interact with the KDE Plasma panel — like clicking on widgets or interacting with system tray elements.

Here's a screenshot of one of the problems I encountered recently:
https://media.discordapp.net/attachment … height=842

seth · 2025-07-18 05:23:01

Are all "multiple errors" rendering errors and are they all tied to the bottom panel (assuming you object to the tetris-design there)?
Wayland or X11?

qdbus6 org.kde.KWin /KWin supportInformation

Does it require you to have a fullscreen or maximized window (in the foreground)?

Asakusa · 2025-07-18 05:52:03

Wayland or X11?

I'm using Wayland.

Does it require you to have a fullscreen or maximized window (in the foreground)?

No, I don't think so. It happens randomly when I interact with the panel, e.g., clicking an app icon.

The issue shown in the screenshot just happened for the first time — previously, the crash usually occurred when I clicked an application icon. The panel would freeze or become unresponsive, and then a message would pop up saying "plasmashell has stopped working."

seth · 2025-07-18 05:58:14

then a message would pop up saying "plasmashell has stopped working."

Check your (previous) system journal(s) about that, there's probably more informative debug messages to be had there.

Arch Linux

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KDE Plasma has been having several issues lately

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