Restarting plasmashell with killall plasmashell; systemctl --user restart plasma-plasmashell
fixes it, but it reappears on reboot or if I open the application launcher on the taskbar.
I can’t confirm if it is using too much CPU right now/edit: it doesn’t , but I wouldn’t kill plasma like that as it doesn’t terminate things “gracefully”, (nor do you give it much time with ; to begin with). If I’d need to reload configs and restart I’d use
Thank you! This is more consistent to restart plasmashell then the command I was using. But it doesn’t fix the underlying problem. The issue reappears on opening application launcher.
As a workaround, I will hotkey this command to a shortcut to quickly restart plasma.
In my case, the PlasmaShell process is jumping between 10% and 30% CPU usage in htop. But I’ve discovered this only happens when certain applications are running, namely Chromium or Brave browser. Both are Electron apps, but other Electron apps, such as Codium and Teams, are not causing this issue.
And restarting plasma-plasmashell.service didn’t help it my case…