SUMMARY I was trying to figure out why the splash screens for KDE Plasma were closing after only about a second after logging in. This happens before all of the desktop components were initialized. When this happens, all I can see is my wallpaper and mouse, desktop components aren't fully loaded in for at least a second or two. I did a fresh install of openSUSE Tumbleweed to try and reproduce any steps that I had done to get to this issue and noticed that the issue only persists when I changed my monitors refresh rate from 60Hz to 180Hz. At 60hz, the splash screens will remain visible until the Plasma desktop has fully loaded its components. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Change refresh rate of monitor to 180Hz. OBSERVED RESULT Splash screens no longer wait until the Plasma desktop has fully loaded. EXPECTED RESULT Splash screen should remain on screen until the Plasma desktop has fully loaded. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux: openSUSE Tumbleweed KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.1 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0 Qt Version: 6.10.0 HARDWARE INFORMATION CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT RAM: 96GB (2x48GB) DDR5 Monitor 1: ASUSTek COMPUTER INC VG259Q3A Monitor 2: HP Inc. OMEN 25i ADDITIONAL INFORMATION I have not dug into this very thoroughly once I found out what was causing the issue, but if this ends up not being easily reproduce-able for other Plasma desktop users I can provide more information and/or try and replicate the issue on other distributions running the KDE Plasma desktop on bare metal. Please let me know if there is any more information needed from me.
I'm afraid this is intentional; the splash screen doesn't wait for all the components to initialize as it may occasionally take a very long time.