SUMMARY When the user arranges desktop icons in a certain way and reboots, the UI will make the icons frozen and inaccessible. The background does respond to the right click. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Make sure the icons sort in rows. Background right click > Custom desktop settings (not sure, I don't use the English version.) OK as necessary. 2. Drag some icons to the lowest row close to the taskbar. (The desktop in question has ~70 files; don't judge, not my fault.) 3. Reboot, login. 4. Try to use icons. If it's of any relevance, the monitor is 1920x1080 and the bottom row of icons seems to almost touch the taskbar with the text. I have a suspicion that this bug might only happen when the icons align with the taskbar like that. OBSERVED RESULT Icons do not respond to mouse events. EXPECTED RESULT Icons should become tinted when clicked and run a file viewer when double-clicked. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Kubuntu 18.04, Plasma 5.12 KDE Plasma Version: 5.12 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.44 Qt Version: 5 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION When you switch the icon arrangement to columns (like Windows), the bug changes a lot: It is triggered by placing an icon to the rightmost column. After reboot, the icon(s) you put to the right will jump one grid position to the right becoming hidden, but you can access them by using a blue scrollbar that has appeared just above the taskbar. However, the glitches have only started: Once you try to move said icons left to be on the normal desktop, they disappear! (They don't get deleted, the files still exist.) And, worst of all, the bottom row of icons closest to the taskbar also disappears! They re-appear after reboot. I have read several threads about this bug online, the oldest being from 2011. This gives me little hope since only a small fraction of users seems to be affected. It's a fresh install though. My temporary solution is to have the "columns" setting active and avoid the right edge of the desktop. Sorry for any inaccuracies in this bug report, I'm not so knowledgeable about KDE.
> The background does respond to the right click. And you repeatedly get this state? Does interacting with the panel still work? Can you run xprop and click in that window and paste here?
Created attachment 117575 [details] xprop output This state happens after dragging icons close to edges as described and rebooting. The user has to avoid that to be able to work. The taskbar with the launcher menu and clock works normally. I have attached the diagnostic output as requested.
Created attachment 117577 [details] xprop new, clicked on desktop Sorry, I noticed that my previous xprop output saved the konsole window. This time, I clicked on the desktop, so it will hopefully be more useful.
Created attachment 117996 [details] xprop neon, clicked on icon I _think_ I am seeing this on KDE Neon, but not totally sure. For me the launchers will always respond to right click & open, but will not respond to a double-click unless there is also an open window. If I close or minimise the open window, then they stop responding to double-clicks. Icon placement has no effect. There are errors showing in "~/.xsession-errors" but they don't appear to correlate with this behaviour. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS KDE Neon, fully updated as of this post KDE Plasma 5.14.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.55.0 Qt Version: 5
Ignore, just discovered I am experiencing 404105; apologies for the noise.
I think the bug appeared with Frameworks 5.55. Doubleclick on desktop icons was OK till PLasma 5.14.5 / FW 5.54. See Bug 404461 too.
This was fixed in Plasma 5.16.
summary I am having the same issue on manjaro linux. Sort does not matter. Steps to reproduce open manjaro kde try opening anything with desktop icon nothing happens Operating System: Manjaro Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.79.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.11.6-1-MANJARO OS Type: 64-bit Graphics Platform: X11
Are you using double-click and do you have any high-refresh-rate monitors?
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #9) > Are you using double-click and do you have any high-refresh-rate monitors? yes to both.
one is set to 75hz other to 144hz
Aha, another instance of Bug 419421. There's a workaround listed there. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 419421 ***
Are you using NVIDIA graphics hardware with the proprietary driver?