Everytime I open it it's fine, but when I try to search for an app it just starts growing!!! What the fuck???

(also, don't mind the screen, I'm gonna clean it soon)

At least when using Oxygen style (comes shipped with KDE Plasma).

To easily see it make sure it's against a white background, it seems those 2 pixels are transparent showing the white background against the darker shadow around the context menu. Making it easy to spot.

I made a report https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=521793 but im here moreso for help fixing it than reporting. Ever since updating plasma to 6.7 when i login, my keyboard turns blue. I don't want it to change any color at all. I can "fix" this by unplugging and replugging in my keyboard and it goes back to the color i actually set. But this isnt a real fix as i dont want to permanently damage my keyboard because the kde devs made an idiotic decision. Like under no case ever, should a system control colors, by default. I just cant figure out what is doing it because there is like no settings in System Settings that mention lighting.

I don't even know how it managed to change it in the first place either, because i thought i locked everything down in VIA.

Obligatory meme because this change is kinda funny and instantly made me think of it.

Just moving two folders with large number of files, and this happens.

I observed that while I type my search query in this textbox, every single keystroke queries the server. Why? Why are we spamming an already slow/under-powered server? (I know, I know - not the server maintainers' fault).

Sending a search string instead, after user hits enter, would save a lot of unnecessary hits to the server. It would also reduce the random resets from server side and improve overall experience.

This applies across Plasma wherever there is a 'Get New' function.

specs : Lenovo IdeaPad slim 3

Plasma version : 6.7.5 KDE Frameworks version : 6.30.0 QT version : 6.11.2 Kernel version : 7.2.4-3-cachyos

Dear Community and KDE,

I just installed this Global Theme, innocently (Global Themes -> Add New...):

It DELETES all your USER mounted drives data. It executes rm -rf on your behalf, deletes all personal data immediately. No questions asked.

I'd appreciate it if anyone could escalate this, I find it totally mind blowing that installing skins allow script execution so easily. I cancelled this when it asked for my root password, but it was too late for my personal data. All drives mounted under my user were gone, down to 0 bytes, games, configurations, browser data, home folder, all gone.

As per OpenSUSE Reddit users, they indicated that this plasmoid executes rm functions (see https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/1biunsl/hacked_installed_a_global_theme_it_erased_all_my/)

Please investigate and escalate :) - I'll be busy reinstalling all my system from scratch, restoring data to go back to work.

UPDATE: Really wanted to appreciate the community for the response and overall reactions of developers. Remember to backup important data, and keep in mind we are all part of making these systems better, as I felt well to be able to share this and be heard. In any OS us users authorize programs to execute things on our behalf, so remember always to run trusted software! I can't confirm whether this was malicious, to my understanding it was just a compatibility and programmers mistake gone south. Looking forward to what this brings in unmoderated community content management.

itz probably fine... (Happened right after i opened deltarune, was fine before that)

Does anyone know why my KDE uses so little resources? It must be a bug /s

I get this annoying bug every time I log in. It seems like the main monitor is connected to Nvidia discrete GPU, and the small one to AMD integrated GPU. It starts working only after turning the screen off and on several times. !!! It happens only with HDR on !!!

My laptop: ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo 16 GX650PY OS: Arch Linux with 6.16.7 Linux kernel. DE: KDE Plasma 6.4.5 CPU: Ryzen 9 7945HX with AMD Radeon 610M iGPU GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU

This is the 2nd time this happened with my install of fedora kde it happens when my laptop is about to go to sleep something tweak out and it gets wide

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Alot of times discord would also pop up saying my monitor can be used as an audio out (shows up as nvidia ga106 something something not the monitor name)

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Posted intended as gits and shiggles but helps would be welcomed

Uhh why is it -1%, it uhm works just fine......

Im on Debian 13 + kde 6.3.6

i never use Krunner, so i don't understand why it would just launch by itself and start to consume 46 GB of ram. i might have accidentally hit the keyboard shortcut for it (it showing in the first screenshot) but im still confused as to why so much ram. i was able to just kill the process and reclaim the ram but its weird. any suggestions as to why this happened.

KDE apps are sort of OK, obviously the colors and theme are completely foreign, fonts are weird, titlebar and app are completely different themes, and light dark switch doesn't work 100% without relaunch but sort of usable. Generic qt is completely busted however. You're stuck with fusion light and that's it. Trying anything else us going to break stuff one way or another.

On KDE everything basically works. Why can't this be propagated to other DEs? Linux can't afford this "only works properly on my DE" bullshit anymore. Decent apps are few and far between as is. I don't care who is "ultimately" to blame for this qt OS vs gtk OS mess (ok probably gnome) but somebody needs to take responsibility to fix this already. This isn't nuclear fusion guys.

Edit: And the responses to this post are why Linux will always remain hit garbage on the desktop.

Although the icons in the panel are correct, in overview Wayland icons are shown. I know it can be fixed using windows rules, but it's a pain to do with all apps. Also, it seems that after upgrades the Wayland icons come back.

Does this bug only happen to me? Is this something being worked on? Is there a permanent fix for this?

Thanks

Hadrware: RX 9070 XT
OS: Fedora 44 KDE Plasma [Plasma Version 6.7.3] /// Windows 11 [Dual Boot]

split-second, localized graphical artifacting/tearing during
desktop UI transitions (menu closing, restart/logout screen, etc).
Never happens under heavy 3D load, gaming, or benchmarks (3DMark, OCCT).
Never happens on Windows on the same hardware.

i tested the VRAM too no problem there either

What I've ruled out:

- Hardware/VRAM: memtest_vulkan on Linux (6600+ iterations, 7.3TB+ written, zero errors) and OCCT VRAM stress test on Windows both passed clean.

- Driver crashes: journalctl -k -b | grep amdgpu shows clean logs during normal artifacting episodes — no ring timeouts, page faults, or resets.

- Adaptive Sync (VRR): happens on Always, Automatic, and Never. Never was actually the worst for me.

- Color Accuracy setting (prefer accuracy vs prefer efficiency): no difference i tried this becasue there was a old bug about this

- KWin Blur effect: seemed to fix it after several clean reproductions with Blur disabled, but it came back with Blur off too, so that correlation didn't hold up either.

Odd detail: it never shows up in screen recordings, only when physically looking at the display

At this point nothing I've tested shows a reliable reason or fix
If anyone else with a 9070/9070 XT has run into something similar i would love to know.

Here is what it looks like it only happens on this menu and only 2 times happened while opening a menu in a game: (its attached to the post)

EDIT: This was actually a knows issue with mesa 26.1.5 on rdna4 gpus

EDIT 2: no that statement was wrong its actually a kernel 7.1.6's issue with amd hardware i think https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/graphical-issues-on-amd-after-kernel-update-to-7-1-6/198522/7