plasmashell oddities

[Rex Dieter]

Ed Greshko wrote:

> I've experienced a couple of oddities with regards to plasmashell that I
> A) Wonder if anyone else has seen and B) how to capture information for
> debugging in the event something similar happens again.
> 
> These have only happened one time each but they still "bug" me as I think
> they, or something similar, may happen again.
> 
> 1.  Everything disappeared from the systray.  It I could still see the
> outline but nothing else.  Restarting plasmashell brought everything back.
> 
> 2.  I run dual monitors.  Suddenly the background and the Home and Trash
> icons were gone.  I though the display had been powered off or when to
> sleep.  However, I could drag a konsole window to the "blank" display and
> it displayed just fine.  Again, restarting plasmashell brought everything
> back.

based on your symptoms, it sounds like plasmashell may have crashed.  

> Currently running plasma-workspace-5.3.0-4

install updates, 5.3.1 is the latest.  updates may help.

-- Rex