Wierd icon behavior on desktop

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Hi :slight_smile:

plasmashell 5.27.12
Linux Mint 22.1 x86_64
Kernel: 6.11.0-25-generic
XDG_SESSION_TYPE x11
Wayland is not installed and it will not be installed as of now due to missing support on some apps I use.

On boot after login to the GUI, (almost) everything works normally. I can start any program I like, session is restored properly. Having some desktop icons as well. Double clicking on any icons name (not the image part of the icon) offers me to rename the item as it should. Now if I double click on the same icons image part (over the text) nothing happens. Lets say this is a text file named 123456.txt It should start the associated program (kate for example) on double clicking. But nothing happens, also there is no obvious entry in the standard logs. Selecting the icon (that works) and hitting enter on the keyboard opens the file properly (double click still not working even after that). This behavior is fixed as soon as I open a popup window in the tray area, for example by clicking on the network icon, sound, or the show hidden icons. The issue is not solved by opening from the tray any 3rd party app or plasmoid (example Event Calendar - KDE Store event calendar or a chat client or mailing client).
Workaround is to have a login script with “xdotool mousemove 3195 1417 click 1 sleep 0.0001 click 1 mousemove restore” for example which clicks on the network icon in the tray
New users dont have the issue - so its a user specific issue.
New empty session does not help after a reboot, its still the same.
Adding a new “folder view” widget on the desktop has the very same issue.
xinput --test (15) is registering the mouse properly. The icon is selected and the background changes accordingly (blue selection box).

motion a[0]=1630
motion a[1]=1083
button press 1
button release 1
button press 1
button release 1
motion a[1]=1082
motion a[0]=1631

It did work normally but I might have changed some setting (don’t remember when) which screwed things up.

Any idea how to track down the issue?

P.s: I have also asked the A.I junk, but … :scream: … :scream:

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Hi - I don’t have specific knowledge on that issue, other than that it might possibly be related to 419421 – QML timers go too fast with multi-threaded render loop when using any high refresh rate screens on X11 when using FOSS amdgpu drivers, which was fixed in Plasma 6.

For what it’s worth, since the issue doesn’t occur in a new user account then you might need to just try isolating the setting that’s triggering it. Basically, you could try adjusting that new account’s settings - specifically ones related to the Plasma desktop, display settings, mouse input, etc. - bit-by-bit to match the old account, until the issue starts happening again.

Just one other note - Linux Mint doesn’t officially provide Plasma as a desktop environment, so it’s possible that some components or configuration steps might not be set up as optimally as when a distribution installer is used that’s designed to set up a Plasma session (like Kubuntu, Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition, etc.)

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Thanks for the input. It seems that the comments below the issue describe exactly my experience and I’m also able to reproduce the issue by setting the monitor to the max refresh rate. Setting it to 60hz solves the issue (so i will live with the issue :smiley: but in 1st place wanted to understand the root cause)
Thanks a lot.

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