Sometimes, my KDE starts without the “taskbar”

When I boot my Arch Linux machine, about 1/10 times the “taskbar” is missing. (Do you still call it a taskbar?)

All I see it desktop icons, the background and the mouse cursor. I’m using NVIDIA proprietary drivers.

Do you guys have any idea what’s with that? It’s hard to troubleshoot because it only happens sometimes.

@linux #linux #KDE #plasma #ArchLinux #askfedi #NVIDIA #troubleshoot

  • Fred@ruhr.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    @fell
    I’ve had the same issue a few years ago when I was running a Manjaro machine. There seems to be something weird going on with how arch based systems initialise the KDE taskbar and even though I’ve had multiple people confirm that they were facing the same problem (and had to force a reboot and hope for the best for the system to fix itself), no one could ever tell me why this happened. It was a real showstopper for me back then. >
    @linux

    • Fred@ruhr.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      @fell
      I don’t have any strong feelings towards arch systems, so I’ve just moved on to @opensuse #Tumbleweed and have never seen that problem again. I know, this is not really a solution to the problem but as I said, nobody knew where the problem came from, so there was no way I could have ever fixed it or found a less cumbersome workaround instead of rebooting ad infinitum. <<
      @linux