Hi all,

I didn't find any specific thread about this issue, so here i is.
My KDE works very well when it starts, but then plasma seem to clutter the system after some 10 to 20 minutes of operation. The panels and widgets become so slow, that they are almost useless (approx. half a minute to just show a panel, each next click approx. half a minute,...). All the rest of system works well (swithching windows with ALT+TAB including smooth 3D effects, working with applications, etc), except moving or resizing windows.

So far the only thing I found out to work is to restart plasma:

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kquitapp plasma-desktop
plasma-desktop

I also found this command here in forums:

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nvidia-settings -a PixmapCache=0 && nvidia-settings -a PixmapCache=1

It should clear the nVidia PixmapCache.

But what about a solution? How to prevent PixmapCache to be overloaded?

CPU: AMD FX(tm)-4100 Quad-Core Processor
GPU: nVidia Corporation G80 [GeForce 8800 GTX] (rev a2)

Best regards,

Oak

you say pixmaps is your problem see viewtopic.php?f=111&t=96078 other solution would be not to use an oxygen theme

Hi,

thank you for suggestion, however it doesn't seem to be my problem.
The post says, that it was fixed in rel. 275, however I had already release 290 installed. Anyway, I reinstalled drivers to the latest 295. No change, plasma still gets cluttered.

Now I am searching for a different theme to try to replace Oxygen. We'll see if there's gonna be any change.

Note: The Plasma was fine until some recent changes of the hardware (MB dead, replaced).

Regards,

Oak

maybe you have a bad/corrupt plasmoid, as a test reset your desktop to the default and see if that helps then add plasmoids singularly and see if the added on causes an issue

to backup and reset plasma desktop to defaults:

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kquitapp plasma-desktop
 sleep 20s
 mkdir -p $HOME/plasma-config/
 mv $(kde4-config --localprefix)/share/config/plasma-desktop* $HOME/plasma-config/
plasma-desktop &

google01103 wrote:maybe you have a bad/corrupt plasmoid, as a test reset your desktop to the default and see if that helps then add plasmoids singularly and see if the added on causes an issue...

I tried to change windows decorations to qtcurve and other graphical styles away from Oxygen with no luck.

Trying to reset plasmoids to default seems to be a next logical step. I'll try it and report the result.

Thank you very much for guiding.

Oak

Hi all,

dumping all old plasma settings and adding all plasmoids again seems to fix the problem!

Thanks for help!

Best regards,

Oak

If it works for you, can you please mark this topic as solved? Thanks.

had the same issue, resetting plasmoids folder helped!