I’m running Arch Linux with KDE 6.4.5 and wayland (nvidia).
When I launch applications like Firefox or Thunderbird, their icon appears only shortly in the panel’s Task Manager (Icons only), once they are fully launched the icon disappears. Same happens for e.g. alacritty, which doesn’t show up at all. Apps like Bitwarden, System Settings, etc. are showing up as expected.
The apps are running, I can use Alt-Tab to switch to them. The Alt-Tab window selector also shows all running applications correctly.
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kwin’s debug console shows something weird:
Apparently plasmashell and kwin are running as X11 applications, which seems wrong, since I’m using Wayland - I don’t even have X11 compatible plasma-shell installed. I use SDDM and the session selected is “Plasma (wayland)”.
$ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
wayland
$ pgrep -af kwin
19065 /usr/bin/kwin_wayland_wrapper --xwayland
19072 /usr/bin/kwin_wayland --wayland-fd 7 --socket wayland-0 --xwayland-fd 8 --xwayland-fd 9 --xwayland-display :1 --xwayland-xauthority /run/user/1000/xauth_UOgYxl --xwayland
Comparing the output of Debug Console and what’s in the panel it seems like only X11 apps are shown in the panel.
I’ve searched for bugs but so far didn’t fine anything.
Any ideas?
