I’m running into a lot of problems with KDE/Plasmashell. I’ve turned off all of the fancy options I can think and I’m still having problems.
Pretty much every day, or twice a day, plasmashell starts consuming 100% cpu and I don’t understand why. Typically I have may 4 copies of Konsole open with perhaps two dozen tabs total. I run a browser, and a commercial coding tool called SlickEdit. That’s it.
Once plasmashell starts using 100%, I kill it and then re-start it using “kstart plasmashell”.
Is there anything that can be done to stop this from happening?
No expert here, but… apparently there are a number of reasons, some have been outstanding bugs for a long time - search KDE bugzilla and you’ll see…
On one laptop I noticed this when a widget is active, for example showing a copy progress notification. Other possibility is when connecting a second monitor - for example turning on a TV connected to a laptop HDMI out.
I’ve seen this on and off since KDE4 on this laptop, and also on desktops although much less than the laptop.
Sometimes disabling composition (ALT-SHIFT-F12) helps, but usually I have to log off and restart the session.