I have been happily running this setup with no issues for almost a year but now I’m suddenly running into a problem where Plasma will grind to a halt. Desktop icons and the Task Manager are completely unresponsive, even the digital clock is completely frozen while all other open programs work normally. After deleting my configuration files and moving step by step to restore everything to where I had it before, I found that duplicating my Task Manager Panel to my second monitor immediately caused Plasma to slow down and eventually freeze. After more specific trial and error it came down to having an Application Launcher on the cloned panel. I have no other plugins or widgets installed besides what came with the official Bazzite install. Is there anything specific that I can run to give us some insight into what is going on and what the problem could be? I’m newer to Linux but have loads of experience tech supporting Windows desktop systems.
Did you report it? I hadn’t turned on my laptop in 3 weeks; last Friday I updated my Fedora KDE, didn’t use the laptop over the weekend, and today I found that problem. It’s definitely an update that broke it.
Can you start plasmashell with the environment variable QT_LOGGING_RULES set to “org.kde.plasma.kicker.debug=true”
( You can do this e.g. by stopping plasma with systemctl --user stop plasma-plasmashell.service, then QT_LOGGING_RULES="org.kde.plasma.kicker.debug=true" plasmashell, or by setting it using KDebugSettings, possibly restarting, then checking the system log with journalctl.)
I have 3-10 Application Launchers on various panels/desktops, and this works fine, so something specific must be wrong, and the relevant logs might contain something.
You might have a look yourself and see if something jumps out at you, or if it’s something that contains no personal data you’re unwilling to share, post it here and let me look at it.