SUMMARY The network manager plasmoid often enters in a state where the icon in the systray is not updated to reflect the wifi connection status and signal strength. For instance, right now I am connected to a network, but the icon shows a no signal wifi with a "?" as if there was no connection. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Connect to a wifi network. OBSERVED RESULT The icon remains unchanged after the connection. EXPECTED RESULT The icon should show reflect the connected status and vary depending on the signal strength. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Manjaro Linux KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.4.0 Qt Version: 6.7.2 Kernel Version: 6.10.3-1-MANJARO (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 4 × Intel® Celeron® N4120 CPU @ 1.10GHz Memory: 5.6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 600 Manufacturer: CHUWI Innovation And Technology(ShenZhen)co.,Ltd Product Name: Hi10 X ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Possibly seeing this more frequently on a tiny netbook that is a bit underpowered. Can it depend on some race?
Other hypothesis: - the ap ssid is long - the ap ssid initial part matches that of another network (e.g. "wifi_network_one" "wifi_netwokr_one_ext_one")
Can you reproduce this with Plasma 6.1.4 or later?
I think I have better identified the problem, that possibly is not a regression. The issue seems to happen when you connect to a network that is IPV6 only. In the case at hand the network is IPV6 only and `ip route` returns no specific route for the interface (but the network works!). Not an expert in IPV6 at all and in a few days I will not be able to test this setup anymore (where I normally stay everything is IPV4 only).
Are you by any chance also using iwd instead of wpa_supplicant?
I use `wpa_supplicant`. The situation is in fact weird. The icon appears to work fine in most cases (e.g. when connecting to my mobile phone hotspot), but there are a couple of public hotspots in the place I am now where it does not update... So, definitely it seems to depend on something on the specific hotspot. I guess that the applet may "look" at something to see if the connection is established and cannot find it, so it does not update the icon. Yet, it says "connected".
Thanks for the info. Not idea what it could be, unfortunately.
I can confirm this affects me as well. My system is: OS: Manjaro Linux Kernel: 6.6.47 KDE Plasma version: 6.0.5 KDE Frameworks version: 6.4.0 Graphics platform: Wayland I don't think it is IPv6-specific, it happens constantly on my home network which is primarily IPv4. It happens to both 5GHz and 2.4 GHz networks, although both networks have the same SSID. The SSID is 13 characters long, "ISPNAMES_0000". I only have wpa_supplicant installed. I also noticed that the icon doesn't reflect the VPN connection status either. Previously I think it would show a lock when connected to a VPN.
Well, after more focused testing I think I figured it out. Something seems to go wrong with the theming. To fix/workaround I simply switched to a different theme and then again to my preferred theme. It also fixed the VPN lock problem I noticed. More details: I went through the plasmoid's QML and I found that the icon path was updating correctly relative to the received signal. That indicates to me that there is nothing wrong with this plasmoid, rather with the icons/theme themselves.
That's quite common when using 3rd-party icon themes, yeah. A screenshot would have made this easier to diagnose; in the future please attach one for visual issues. Thanks a lot!
Bulk transfer as requested in T17796