I’ve recently started using Debian 12 with KDE on my laptop and after ironing out most of the teething issues I have a couple left.
The one I have made no progress on is random freezes on the taskbar. I only really notice this when the clock is wrong (as it’s frozen) or I go to click an app on the taskbar and nothing happens. If I press the Meta / Windows key the Start menu appears but nothing else seems to work.
There doesn’t seem to be a pattern to it. For example it doesn’t always happen resuming from sleep. I can be working away and find it’s frozen. I have three widgets running (CPU, Memory and Network) but it froze before I added them. Other than that there is nothing fancy on there.
The workaround is to edit the Taskbar and then drag the resize sliders and it strings back to life with the correct time.
I’ve done the usual Google Search but haven’t found anything that’s not been fixed, or recent.
Any help appreciated.
On my Debian, Wayland crashed (after several hangs and glitches) and a reboot ended in a blinking cursor on black screen.
I literally didn’t do anything except install it with everything on default and change some settings in the GUI.
Something is up with Debian KDE right now.
Did you install any non-standard drivers? If your system has an nVidia GPU bumblebee, nouveau and the closed-sourced driver all can cause this issue.
No. Intel integrated graphics on a laptop.
And now on OpenSUSE, KDE works flawlessly, so it isn’t a hardware issue either.