taskbar freezes for 15-20 seconds.

I’m experiencing a bug that’s been frustrating me for a long tine. I’m using Debian 13 with KDE, and after logging in, the taskbar occasionally freezes while everything else continues to work normally. I switched to KDE Neon hoping to resolve the issue, but encountered the same problem. Even after returning to Debian 13, the issue remains. Can anyone help me fix this completely?

I get this, Kubuntu 25.10.

@Sifat @jlittle Do you both use KDE Connect? I could track it down to my phone being connected to Wifi when logging in. It seems to have helped for me to delete all KDE Connect related config files in my home directory, and then pair and configure my phone again.

@janr Hi. Yes, I do use KDE Connect and everything related to kde connect. I’ll check it out. Thanks

Hey @jlittle , This isn’t a distro problem. This is DE problem. Maybe Kde plasma 6+ problem

I agree, I suspect it’s plasmashell.

I do use kdeconnect. My phone is normally paired with another box, perhaps I could unpair with the desktop that has the freezes.