My system tray will create spurious entries. Setting those entries to hidden will remove the whitespace. Reproducible: Always
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I believe I've found a way to reproduce this. Using plasmashell 5.5.4 Connect an external monitor. Run kquitapp plasmashell Run plasmashell Connect a montior Run kequitapp plasmashell Run plasmashell
If you'd upgraded to kf5-5.19 recently, this may be a dup of bug #359388
It may very well be a dup. I'll gladly test the master branch and confirm.
Please reopen if you get this after KF5.20 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 359388 ***