Universal Blue•2mo ago

Icons Moving on Hover

Whenever I hover on icons, they appear to move? This makes the task bar and activity bar pretty unusable (see video). This happens on plasma, x11, and on both the breeze/carl (downloaded) themes. https://paste.centos.org/view/55900ca9 https://paste.centos.org/view/35d97034

Solution:

Aklright - after much digging I think I got it. so I finally found this post on the manjaro forums about KDE https://forum.manjaro.org/t/hover-messes-up-icons/161780/15 ...

Manjaro Linux Forum

Hover messes up Icons

Just to make sure that average user doesn’t apply what is written in all those sub sections. 😉

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pastrami•2mo ago

Bumping this, cause it’s getting super annoying…

Zeglius•2mo ago

Does this happen in Wayland? As far I know, support for x11 is gone by fedora, and we are following that as well

pastrami•2mo ago

This does - it happens on both options on the lock screen (bottom left) plasma, and x11. My understanding is the plasma option is indeed Wayland Just realizing my pastes have been expired - I’ll send a new one shortly when I’m at my desk

Zeglius•2mo ago

Alright, also did you try cleaning ~/.cache? I think I heard of a similar case and that solved their issue

pastrami•2mo ago

I did not - that’s a good idea, I’ll do that first when I make it there cleared ~/.cahce then restarted - no dice there https://paste.centos.org/view/338db52a https://paste.centos.org/view/97022230

Zeglius•2mo ago

Oof. I don't want to blame Nvidia for everything but... Did you try the pre-installed themes? Any oddity/glitchiness with them? Because this seems more likely to slide to the KDE/nvidia side of the roof

pastrami•2mo ago

Yeah I got a feeling it’s nvidia, it does always seem to be lol Though, that said - usually when it is I can get many people with nvidia to confirm they’re getting the same too. As well, I’m not seeing it on my Deck with bazzite either (not that’s that’s nvidia, just a separate observation) I tried the breeze/breeze dark, but they still seem to have this issue - may be worth trying with the .cache clear tho Hm. Yeah changed to breeze dark (default theming for KDE), cleared cache, restarted - still there 😦 Also disabled one of my monitors, because I remember having issues running 4K-x2 early on (All currently on x11, figured I’d focus there as it tends to be the most stable nvidia exp usually)

HikariKnight•2mo ago

im curious if you get this will an alt+f2 plasmashell --replace fix it? or at least solve it for abit?

pastrami•2mo ago

Idk - let’s see Curious before running, what’s replace do? Just a reload?

HikariKnight•2mo ago

kills and reloads plasmashell its similar to running r in the gnome run prompt i have to head off to bed though

pastrami•2mo ago

Just tried - reloaded but no dice, immediately back

Solution

pastrami•2mo ago

Aklright - after much digging I think I got it. so I finally found this post on the manjaro forums about KDE https://forum.manjaro.org/t/hover-messes-up-icons/161780/15 Then initial solution posted was this

cd ~/.config && for j in plasma*; do mv -- "$j" "${j%}.bak"; done && mv Trolltech.conf Trolltech.conf.bak && rm -rf ~/.cache/* && kbuildsycoca6 --noincremental && cd ~ && echo -e "\nFinished Clearing Plasma Settings and User Cache.\n\nPlease Reboot.\n"

cd ~/.config && for j in plasma*; do mv -- "$j" "${j%}.bak"; done && mv Trolltech.conf Trolltech.conf.bak && rm -rf ~/.cache/* && kbuildsycoca6 --noincremental && cd ~ && echo -e "\nFinished Clearing Plasma Settings and User Cache.\n\nPlease Reboot.\n"

but while that did reset my desktop/KDE environment, it did not work for me. Scrolling down, I tried the second to last solution, BUT NOT THE FINAL LINE - as that seems... dangerous...

rm -rf ~/.cache/*
rm ~/.config/*
kbuildsycoca6 --noincremental

rm -rf ~/.cache/*
rm ~/.config/*
kbuildsycoca6 --noincremental

As well, I decided to manually go into my ~/.local/share and delete all kde/plasma folders. DO NOT RUN rm -rf ~/.* <- NOT THIS ONE Finally - after restarting, the icon issue is no longer present. NOTE - this does still reset your desktop environment. It WILL require you to re-setup your panels/wallpaper/etc, but it's worth it for the issue to go away.

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