On Sunday, September 11, 2011 1:33 PM, "Alex Schuster" <wonko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tim Edwards writes: > > > I'm running Opensuse 11.4 with KDE 4.6 on a Netbook. When I plug the > > netbook in to an external monitor/TV after a few minutes the KDE panel > > (including all menus, icons, clock etc.) is completely frozen. Even > > after over an hour it remains frozen. > > > > All other software functions fine - firefox, Libreoffice, Thunderbird > > etc. and I can use alt+tab to switch between them. I can't launch new > > programs since the KMenu is frozen > > I think KRunner (Alt-F2) should still work. Thanks, that helps. > > > but I have a konsole window open I > > can run programs from there. All these programs, including KDE-specific > > ones such as Dolphin, work fine, without freezing or pauses. > > Looks like plasma-desktop froze. Does top show this process with 100% CPU > usage? This happened to me often. > > Try this in your Konsole in order to quit plasma and restart it: > > kquitapp plasma-desktop; plasma-desktop > > If kquitapp does not work, try killall -9 plasma-desktop instead. If it > hangs again, maybe you see some output in the Konsole that helps to see > what the problem is. Yeah it was completely frozen, I had to kill -9 the process. I've now started it from a konsole window so we'll see if it shows any errors. Tim ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.