Bug 510971

Summary:	Notifications and other things appear like an open application
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Henning <boredsquirrel>
Component:	Notifications	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	major	CC:	kde, kdedev
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.4.5
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	NixOS
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	screenshot of the ghost window

Description Henning 2025-10-23 17:03:24 UTC

Created attachment 186048 [details]
screenshot of the ghost window

this might be a panel bug, but likely not 

Since quite some time I have a bug where I have a phantom window in the panel

Title is "Plasma Desktop", application is "plasmashell"

This is related to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510970 as it causes notifications to be unclosable from their normal x button, but you close them like open windows from plasmapanel, stacked under that icon

The window popups appear like open application windows and the window is displayed correctly in the preview

No matter what I tried (even tried a kwin rule), this ghost window always reappears.

This ghost window shows a window for every popup, so also for itself! this means it displays itself.

Complicated so I attach a screenshot

Operating System: NixOS 25.11
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0
Qt Version: 6.9.2
Kernel Version: 6.12.53 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland

Comment 1 TraceyC 2025-10-23 18:59:19 UTC

As asked for in the template, can you please provide steps to reproduce this bug? Thanks.

Comment 2 Bug Janitor Service 2025-11-07 03:48:32 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 2025-11-22 03:46:47 UTC

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