On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 15:22 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 18 August 2009 14:42:20 Jeremy Sanders wrote: > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > > I'm not seeing such problems here. Have you tried re-starting plasma? > > > In a konsole > > > > > > kquitapp plasma & > > > plasma > > > > That fixes it but the problems return after a while. > > > > This appears to be part of the problem: > > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202199 > > > There doesn't seem any clear indication of where problems like this really do > come from. I haven't seen any of the things mentioned in that thread (as far > as I can see from a quick skim through). I do have the problem of firefox > apparently shutting down, in that it disappears from both screen and taskbar, > but stays active behind the scenes, quickly building up to 99% cpu. I have to > manually kill it every time I use it. However, that's no concern of plasma, > and if restarting clears it for you it obviously is a plasma bug. I don't > know what to suggest, other than filing another bug report. I haven't seen either of these problems, but with KDE it's often a good idea to try things in a fresh user account to see if they are reproducible. poc