SUMMARY *** NOTE: If you are reporting a crash, please try to attach a backtrace with debug symbols. See https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Debugging/How_to_create_useful_crash_reports *** I have two activities I use. One is for all my main computing, the other reduces power usage for night time idle. Blank black background, monitors are turned off after one minute, etc... I have to use this workaround if I want activities to work as they are supposed to. Every time I boot I wait until the machine has finished booting, HDD access light is not blinking anymore. Then I run from a terminal; killall plasmashell wait a couple seconds then nohup kstart5 plasmashell >/dev/null 2>&1 & Once I see my taskbar has popped back up I scroll on my desktop to ensure activities rolls between the two activities I have configured. After completing this I can then use my computer like normal and when I'm going to bed, I just switch activities via meta+tab. My displays shut off as configured in the second activity and all is good. If I vary in this workaround at all, I have to reboot, killing plasmashell will not fix it. I have tried deleting and remaking the activities, from both this user profile and new ones and the result is always the same. It works properly once and then after that I have to use my workaround. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Boot PC 2. Don't kill plasmashell 3. Activities don't work. OBSERVED RESULT Activities do not work, you see the switcher bar appear but nothing happens. No activity settings are applied. The desktop is not changed. All windows remain where they are. EXPECTED RESULT Activities should work as expected without having to first kill plasmashell, then start it again, then roll through the activities. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Fedora Linux 37 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.104.0 Qt Version: 5.15.8 Kernel Version: 6.2.9-200.fc37.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-6500T CPU @ 2.50GHz Memory: 31.2 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 530 Manufacturer: LENOVO Product Name: 10FM001UUS System Version: ThinkCentre M900 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The workaround is no longer working, is this going to even get addressed? Operating System: Fedora Linux 37 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.105.0 Qt Version: 5.15.9 Kernel Version: 6.3.12-100.fc37.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland
Cannot reproduce. This looks like a problem caused by a special configuration so other people are unlikely to encounter the same bug, and the quickest way to get the bug fixed is trying to debug and fix it yourself.
There is nothing special or specific about the configuration. The two desktop activities and three displays.
Hi! Does this still happen on the latest version of Plasma, and even on a fresh user?
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🐛🧹 This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. Closing as RESOLVED WORKSFORME.