KDE Panel freezing when HDMI connected

[Tim Edwards]

On Sunday, September 11, 2011 1:33 PM, "Alex Schuster"
<wonko at wonkology.org> wrote:
> Tim Edwards writes:
> 
> > I'm running Opensuse 11.4 with KDE 4.6 on a Netbook. When I plug the
> > netbook in to an external monitor/TV after a few minutes the KDE panel
> > (including all menus, icons, clock etc.) is completely frozen. Even
> > after over an hour it remains frozen. 
> > 
> > All other software functions fine - firefox, Libreoffice, Thunderbird
> > etc. and I can use alt+tab to switch between them. I can't launch new
> > programs since the KMenu is frozen
> 
> I think KRunner (Alt-F2) should still work.

Thanks, that helps.

> 
> >                                    but I have a konsole window open I
> > can run programs from there. All these programs, including KDE-specific
> > ones such as Dolphin, work fine, without freezing or pauses.
> 
> Looks like plasma-desktop froze. Does top show this process with 100% CPU
> usage? This happened to me often.
> 
> Try this in your Konsole in order to quit plasma and restart it:
> 
>   kquitapp plasma-desktop; plasma-desktop
> 
> If kquitapp does not work, try killall -9 plasma-desktop instead. If it
> hangs again, maybe you see some output in the Konsole that helps to see
> what the problem is.

Yeah it was completely frozen, I had to kill -9 the process. I've now
started it from a konsole window so we'll see if it shows any errors.

Tim
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