Upgraded from plasma 6.0.4 to 6.0.5 - system monitor widgets messed up?

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Hi there,

I’ve just upgraded my Gentoo-based plasma installation from 6.0.4 to 6.0.5. I had a neat panel on the right side of the screen with a bunch of system monitor widgets (CPU, memory, disk, network, temps). On 6.0.5 they are now all squeezed together and I can’t seem to fix it. Only when I place the widgets directly on the desktop, they look normal.
Additionally, when I modify details of a line chart (e.g. change the color of a sensor), suddenly the line chart disappears and only the text-only sensor stays, with no way to bring it back but delete the widget and add it from scratch.

Is this a known regression?

Thanks,
Patrick.

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Nobara update to 6.0.5, can confirm system monitor widget is not working. Config interface is messed up. I can’t no longer place widget on desktop, even place a new one won’t work.

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I can confirm the same behavior (bug) on 6.1 beta too

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Have the same problem. Downgrade plasma-systemmonitor to 6.0.4 do not solve that.

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Same here. I’m running plasma-systemmonitor 6.0.5 on Fedora 40 and I’m using the Individual core usage widget on a default panel. Most display styles are useless: The Bar chart style is squished so thin that no bars are displayed, Process table and Applications table crash Plasma altogether (had to delete ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc and restart from the command line).

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I am also having issues, particularly with the CPU widget. It used to have a show each core nicely on my panel, now I need to click.

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see :Anyone have an idea why my Sys Monitor line chart widget is so narrow? - #3 by dark

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Same here :frowning:

Before:

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(This is actually a screenshot from plasma5, because I do not have a screenshot of how it looked before the update from 6.0.4 to 6.0.5. But the look was almost identical to this one)

After:
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Upgraded to 6.1 two days ago, but I’m still seeing this problem.
Anyone else?

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Some known regressions in chart sizing are being worked on right now. I can see if these are known, or not.

Are those widgets on a thick panel or something? Or a Grouping widget? Can you describe the setup in more detail?

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Hi @ngraham ,
yes, it is a thick panel. And no, there’s no grouping widget.
It is just a thick vertical panel in auto-hide mode, with (from bottom to top) a network speed widget, a disk usage widget, a memory usage widget and a total cpu use widget.
All widgets but disk usage are in grid mode.
I think it is due to Plasma bug 489307 (489307 – On a thick panel, graphs don't take up enough space) that you mentioned in another thread.

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Hi @ngraham , are there any news?
I see that the mentioned bug has been fixed in Plasma 6.2.0.
BTW, I am on Plasma 6.3.0 ans still see the problem.
Do I have to re-create the panel to see the fix?

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There is no Plasma 6.3.0; you might be thinking of Frameworks 6.3. Plasma 6.2.0 won’t be released for a few months.

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Yes, you’re correct (BTW I’m now on Plasma Frameworks 6.4.0):
immagine

So we will have to wait a few months to have this fixed? :sob:

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Can you please share your configuration?

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Hi @firewalker , how would you want me to share it?
I have already described the types of widgets that I’m using, do you need more details?
As there’s no way (that I know of) of exporting a panel’s configuration with all its widgets, would you elaborate on how do you want me to share the configuration?

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OK! I though it was a file for systemonitor widget. Like the presets. I failed to understand that it was a panel with multiple widgets.