On 5/10/21 10:13 AM, Patrick Boutilier wrote:
On 5/10/21 10:56 AM, Temlakos wrote:
Everyone:
Ever since the latest massive kde5 update (Saturday 8 May 2021), I
have not been able to use the task bar to switch between open windows
- and sometimes not even to start certain applications that have
taskbar icons. Anything in the System Tray is all right - like the
dnfdragora update icon, the clipboard, the new-device icon, or the
volume icon. But anything for an open window? Forget it. Every time I
click on such an object, the computer pauses for about ten or fifteen
seconds, during which it accepts no input from mouse or keyboard -
and then blanks the screen, abruptly closes all open windows, and
restarts the session. Most of the time the session is all right, but
not always - in which case I restart the machine.
It's not the kernel. I've tried this with all three versions of the
kernel I now have on board. (They're all three F34 builds by now.)
It's one or more of the applications that are part of KDE Plasma. But
I despair of telling which one. That update had 185 programs in it,
and only four of them are referable to the kernel.
I can always use the Alt-Tab trick to browse open windows to get to
any open window I want. I can always start most programs through the
Applications Menu; that icon works. I /think/ I can start one
instance of Dolphin - but starting a new instance requires the task
bar, so that's out. The only way to open two instances of Dolphin is
to connect an external device, thus giving me an excuse to open that
device in Dolphin and then switch views. (And another thing: movement
and copying from one Dolphin instance to another is also broken. I
have to use the clipboard as an intermediate step. Otherwise Dolphin
complains that it /can't read/ what I'm trying to move or copy.)
In other news, my bug reporting system is broken and won't report
anything, and the KDE Daemon keeps crashing at the beginning of every
session - though I can't tell whether I'm losing anything by that.
Has anyone else noticed this issue?
Can someone having an intact reporting system, or an upstream
channel, try to report this?
I wonder if the update didn't fully complete? Does this show any
plasma/kf5 related updates?
yum list updates
No. No updates available at this time, from any repository. Whatever
packages I got, the update went through. Ergo, I didn't get every
package that needed to change, or the latest Plasma/KF5 update contains
a bug or bugs related to the Task Bar.
Temlakos
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