Bug 393849

Summary:	taskbar disappears
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Leon <leon>
Component:	generic-crash	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Kubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Leon 2018-05-04 16:09:54 UTC

Hi,
yesterday I have used the search function (press the "K" in the taskbar and type something). Suddenly the taskbar (controlbar / "Kontrollleiste") disappeared and also the desktop-background went black.

A workaround to get the taskbar back again:
  open krunner (alt + space by default) and run:
  kquitapp5 plasmashell ; /usr/bin/plasmashell --shut-up

I am happy, this behaviour has not happened before or after. Yet...

This seems to be related to Bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356225.
But I only have a Laptop without extra screen.

I am using kubuntu, which has a quite old version of plasmashell: 5.5.5

Comment 1 David Edmundson 2018-05-04 16:12:24 UTC

5.5 is unsupported it's not a good use of time to look into it. Sorry.

Hopefully this is fixed in newer releases. Please let us know if it's still an issue

Comment 2 Leon 2018-05-04 16:17:05 UTC

ok :)
I mainly wanted to keep the workaround somewhere at hand...