UI frozen with kwin 6.7.0-1 and drkonqi 6.7.0-3 after launching GW2

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Hi,

I’m having an issue after these 2 updated packages:

[2026-06-21T15:08:05+0300] [ALPM] upgraded drkonqi (6.6.5-2 -> 6.7.0-1)
[2026-06-21T15:08:05+0300] [ALPM] upgraded kwin (6.6.5-4 -> 6.7.0-3)

When launching the game Guild Wars 2 via Steam Proton 9.0-4 (I tried also the 8 version, same), the game launcher would start coming up, then the UI freezes. I can see disk activity on my PCs LEDs, but I can’t do anything with the UI. I also cannot start a new session with Ctrl+Alt+3 and similar. I have to reboot my PC from the power button at this point.

journalctl -b -1 showed nothing relevant at the time of the freeze, just typical Wine/Proton output. Nothing that distinguishes normal game sessions from the frozen UI ones.

After reverting the 2 updates mentioned above, behavior is back to normal. The game launcher works, but causes very poor performance in all the applications I’m running, it has been this way since I think April 2026.

I’d open a bug report at https://bugs.kde.org, but I have no clue what useful information to attach. What should I include in the report?

Thank you,

Simeon

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It is worth checking the user journal for errors as well.

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Forgot to add, interestingly discord will continue to work in the background but other basic features like laptop lid-close detection does not work.

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I just wanted to chime in and say that I ran into this issue as well, and thought I had borked my system in particular. I was running Fedora 44 on a Framework 16, and I’ve spent the last couple days installing a fresh OS (Gentoo this time) because of this issue. Perhaps I didn’t need to do all of that after all, and just needed to rollback the changes.