I've experienced a couple of oddities with regards to plasmashell that I A) Wonder if anyone else has seen and B) how to capture information for debugging in the event something similar happens again.
These have only happened one time each but they still "bug" me as I think they, or something similar, may happen again.
1. Everything disappeared from the systray. It I could still see the outline but nothing else. Restarting plasmashell brought everything back.
2. I run dual monitors. Suddenly the background and the Home and Trash icons were gone. I though the display had been powered off or when to sleep. However, I could drag a konsole window to the "blank" display and it displayed just fine. Again, restarting plasmashell brought everything back.
Currently running plasma-workspace-5.3.0-4. Konsole output
On 06/28/15 15:52, Ed Greshko wrote:
- I run dual monitors. Suddenly the background and the Home and Trash icons were gone. I though the display had been powered off or when to sleep. However, I could drag a konsole window to the "blank" display and it displayed just fine. Again, restarting plasmashell brought everything back.
The problem only affected the "secondary" display.
Ed Greshko wrote:
I've experienced a couple of oddities with regards to plasmashell that I A) Wonder if anyone else has seen and B) how to capture information for debugging in the event something similar happens again.
These have only happened one time each but they still "bug" me as I think they, or something similar, may happen again.
- Everything disappeared from the systray. It I could still see the
outline but nothing else. Restarting plasmashell brought everything back.
- I run dual monitors. Suddenly the background and the Home and Trash
icons were gone. I though the display had been powered off or when to sleep. However, I could drag a konsole window to the "blank" display and it displayed just fine. Again, restarting plasmashell brought everything back.
based on your symptoms, it sounds like plasmashell may have crashed.
Currently running plasma-workspace-5.3.0-4
install updates, 5.3.1 is the latest. updates may help.
-- Rex
On 06/28/15 20:57, Rex Dieter wrote:
based on your symptoms, it sounds like plasmashell may have crashed.
Well, there still was a plasmashell process running that I killed and then restarted. Maybe it half crashed...
Currently running plasma-workspace-5.3.0-4
install updates, 5.3.1 is the latest. updates may help.
I just did get that update earlier today. Will see how is goes.
On 06/28/15 20:57, Rex Dieter wrote:
install updates, 5.3.1 is the latest. updates may help.
Bummer, #1 happened again with all of the systray entries "disappearing". But they weren't gone. If I moused over they systray I got the little popups showing the running application. Also, I could select the virtual desktops. Just no visuals.. Odd.
On 06/28/2015 10:14 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 06/28/15 20:57, Rex Dieter wrote:
install updates, 5.3.1 is the latest. updates may help.
Bummer, #1 happened again with all of the systray entries "disappearing". But they weren't gone. If I moused over they systray I got the little popups showing the running application. Also, I could select the virtual desktops. Just no visuals.. Odd.
right click on systray, check settings, like the 'Auto Hide'.
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Rex Dieter