Bug 501752

Summary:	plasmashell freezes on activity change
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Quentin Guyot <quentin.guyot.2007_kde>
Component:	Activities in general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
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
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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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

Comment 1 TraceyC 2026-01-15 20:05:04 UTC

Thanks for the bug report. I'm sorry we weren't able to get to this yet. There have been many fixes and improvements since this was reported, some in the Activities feature, and this issue may have been fixed.

Can you please re-test on your system with Plasma 6.5.5 or later and let us know if you can still reproduce the problem? If you can, please set this report back to REPORTED. Thanks!

Comment 2 Bug Janitor Service 2026-01-30 03:49:33 UTC

🐛🧹 ⚠️ This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 15 days. Please provide the requested information, then set the bug status to REPORTED. If there is no change for at least 30 days, it will be automatically closed as RESOLVED WORKSFORME.

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Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2026-02-14 03:51:44 UTC

🐛🧹 This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. Closing as RESOLVED WORKSFORME.