> Hi all, > since some days I experience arbitrary hangs of plasmashell. When this > happens, neither the application menu, the task bar nor any systray > application respond to any mouse click. Alt+F2 doesn't work either and > there is nothing else than "killall plasmashell && kstart plasmashell" > to fix the problem. This is Debian/Sid, all packages up-to-date.
> Does anybody else experience similar problems? Yes, same problem here. plasmashell hangs just opening the main menu, clicking on the taskbar or even only hovering the mouse over the taskbar. I looked in logs and I could not find any related error message. The only way to get the system back again is to run killall plasmashell && kstart plasmashell. The problem is so annoying and frequent I moved (temporarily?) to stable just to get work done.