I'm running Fedora-20 with KDE 4.12 (not quite sure how one defines the KDE version now?)
Every hour or so the panel does not take any input, eg I cannot change virtual desktop by clicking on them, although I can change them by eg Ctrl-F3 or Ctrl-F5.
I haven't found any way to cure this except to log out and login again.
Has anyone else experienced this?
There are various other misfeatures allied to this, I think, eg slabs of text get highlighted in a curious way. But the panel freezing is the most obvious symptom.
On 07/15/2014 06:05 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I'm running Fedora-20 with KDE 4.12 (not quite sure how one defines the KDE version now?)
Every hour or so the panel does not take any input, eg I cannot change virtual desktop by clicking on them, although I can change them by eg Ctrl-F3 or Ctrl-F5.
I haven't found any way to cure this except to log out and login again.
Has anyone else experienced this?
I'm experienced that but isn't too frequent, in my use case:
- kde with 12 virtual desktops in a vertical pager (and the free radeon driver for desktop effects) - I switch with ctrl-F{1-6} between the first 6 desktops frequently - use the pager for the remaining and less used desktops - the problem in my use case happens in 2 to 5 days of uptime ( so I cannot get a proper test case to open a bug report) - when It happens I click one virtual desktop and no switch between desktops occurs or some windows are moved from a virtual desktop to another or to all desktops
and I not see at the present because I changed from clicking in the pager to:
- using the keyboard to select the first 6 desktops - clicking in the task manager sometimes using 2 click when the apps have more than one window to select it - using a desktop effect swiitcher a keyboard shortcut to activate it and F## to select it
There are various other misfeatures allied to this, I think, eg slabs of text get highlighted in a curious way. But the panel freezing is the most obvious symptom.
Hi,
On Wednesday 16 July 2014 01:05:07 Timothy Murphy wrote:
Every hour or so the panel does not take any input, eg I cannot change virtual desktop by clicking on them, although I can change them by eg Ctrl-F3 or Ctrl-F5.
Fully up-to-date Fedora-20 with similar problem (but not exactly the same): * The complete panel (not only virtual-desktop switching) is "almost" stuck. * By "almost" I mean it respond to click with a *very* long delay (~10 seconds or so).
I haven't found any way to cure this except to log out and login again.
* Yesterday I noticed it first time and logged out/in again. * Today, after your mail, I verified that restarting "plasma-desktop" is sufficient to restore responsiveness: - Used Ctrl-ESC to pop-up the process list - searched "plasma-desktop" and killed it - Used Alt-F2 to run a new "plasma-desktop" - The new panel is responsive again.
Has anyone else experienced this?
Oron Peled wrote:
On Wednesday 16 July 2014 01:05:07 Timothy Murphy wrote:
Every hour or so the panel does not take any input, eg I cannot change virtual desktop by clicking on them, although I can change them by eg Ctrl-F3 or Ctrl-F5. I haven't found any way to cure this except to log out and login again.
- Today, after your mail, I verified that restarting "plasma-desktop" is sufficient to restore responsiveness:
- Used Ctrl-ESC to pop-up the process list
- searched "plasma-desktop" and killed it
- Used Alt-F2 to run a new "plasma-desktop"
- The new panel is responsive again.
Thanks very much. I've made a note of your solution.
On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 11:33 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Oron Peled wrote:
On Wednesday 16 July 2014 01:05:07 Timothy Murphy wrote:
Every hour or so the panel does not take any input, eg I cannot change virtual desktop by clicking on them, although I can change them by eg Ctrl-F3 or Ctrl-F5. I haven't found any way to cure this except to log out and login again.
- Today, after your mail, I verified that restarting "plasma-desktop" is sufficient to restore responsiveness:
- Used Ctrl-ESC to pop-up the process list
- searched "plasma-desktop" and killed it
- Used Alt-F2 to run a new "plasma-desktop"
- The new panel is responsive again.
Thanks very much. I've made a note of your solution.
About 4 years ago I was getting some grief from Plasma and someone sent me a script to restart it. I still have it but it's been years since I've had to use it, but here it is anyway:
#!/bin/sh # Restart the Plasma workspace under KDE. Use if Plasma crashes or # Autohide stops working.
kquitapp plasma-desktop sleep 5s plasma-desktop &>/dev/null &
poc
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
#!/bin/sh # Restart the Plasma workspace under KDE. Use if Plasma crashes or # Autohide stops working.
kquitapp plasma-desktop sleep 5s plasma-desktop &>/dev/null &
Thanks, I've put in ~/bin for emergency use. Actually, my panel has not frozen for 24 hours, and it has also stopped raining (I'm in Italy). I'm not saying that is proof of a connection, but ...
On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 17:25 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
#!/bin/sh # Restart the Plasma workspace under KDE. Use if Plasma crashes or # Autohide stops working.
kquitapp plasma-desktop sleep 5s plasma-desktop &>/dev/null &
Thanks, I've put in ~/bin for emergency use. Actually, my panel has not frozen for 24 hours, and it has also stopped raining (I'm in Italy). I'm not saying that is proof of a connection, but ...
I see you subscribe to the fallacy of "post hoc ergo propter hoc" :-)
poc