Bug 511893

Summary: Mouse hover problem in system monitor plasmoid (by Barry Strong).
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: afc54
Component: System Monitor widgetsAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: normal CC: afc54, ahiemstra, notmart
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.3.6   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Debian stable   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description afc54 2025-11-10 02:19:19 UTC
SUMMARY
This problem only occurs in System Monitor Plasmoid 2.8 (Debian 13.1).
Version 2.7 (Debian 12.12) works fine.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1.  Install the System Monitor Plasmoid (by Barry Strong)
2.  Hover the mouse on the different bars
3.  Observe different results as described below

OBSERVED RESULT
Proper behavior (2.7/Debian 12.12): When hovering the mouse over the bars I
have configured (CPU, RAM and Swap) a little window pops up with the
following: (for the RAM bar, the other bars have the correct displays for
CPU and Swap):

System Monitor - Memory

Total Memory:       15.52 GiB
Application Memory:  8.15 GiB
Buffer Memory:       0.10 GiB
Cache Memory:        6.85 GiB
Free Memory:         0.41 GiB

The problem (2.8/Debian 13.1): When hovering the mouse over the bars, no
matter which one, I only get:

System Monitor Plasmoid
Shows System Monitor Information

BUT! if I move the mouse very slowly at the very edge of the bars, I get a
very quick glimpse of the correct display as shown above, but it disappears
almost instantly.  It's like the mouse hover triggers the correct display only
at the very edge of the bars, possibly just 1 pixel.  Everywhere else I see
the generic message.

EXPECTED RESULT
That 2.8 would behave the same as 2.7

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
The standard versions as distributed in Debian 12 and Debian 13.
$ kinfo
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 13
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.6
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.13.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.12.48+deb13-amd64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-4770S CPU @ 3.10GHz
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.5 GiB usable)
Comment 1 Bug Janitor Service 2025-11-10 02:33:41 UTC
Thank you for the bug report!

Debian advises users to not submit bugs upstream (https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting), and Plasma 6.3.6 is no longer eligible for support or maintenance from KDE. It's possible that the issue exists only in Debian at this point.

Could you report the bug to Debian using the report bug utility (https://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/reportbug)? If necessary, the maintainer of the package will forward the bug upstream.
Thanks for understanding!

Thanks again!