Bug 501752

Summary: plasmashell freezes on activity change
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Quentin Guyot <quentin.guyot.2007_kde>
Component: Activities in generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: normal CC: aspotashev, ivan.cukic, kdedev
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.3.3   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Description Quentin Guyot 2025-03-19 17:01:29 UTC
SUMMARY
Plasma freezes when I change activities.
I can interact with windows, and KWin is responsive, but plasma itself (the panels, widgets and the activities sidebar when I use it to change activities) are all frozen for a period of time tha lasts between 10 seconds and about 2 minutes.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. change activities.

OBSERVED RESULT
Kwin changes activities, and Plasma freezes for a while.

EXPECTED RESULT
Plasma and KWin chang activities in a short moment.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.12.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.13.7-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION