• Bug#1110219: plasma: plasma-desktop: kicker (Applicationlauncher) can n

    From Hans@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 1 14:10:01 2025
    Package: plasma-workspace
    Version: 4:6.3.6-2
    Severity: important
    File: plasma

    Dear Maintainer,

    I am watching a strange issue with the application launcher. As I do not know, what really hapens, please let me shortly describe:

    1. When starting the launcher and I can hover the mouse over the categories, but when I go into the submenus to chose the application, the submenu disapears. Thus I can not start any application from the startmenu. This behaviour appears also on the
    alternatives.

    2. When hover the mousepointer over any of the categories, I see the mouse cursor blinking black and white colour, so as if the mouse is doing something. The mouse is not touched during this.

    3. Removing the external mouse does not work.

    4. This is a laptop, so a touchpad is always connected.

    Work I did and things to know:

    - I reinstalled all kde-packages = no success
    - Checked all parms = nothing unusual found
    - Created a new user for testing purposes = same issue
    - Chcked hardware with a livefile system = on livefile it is ok

    On my desktop computer with debian/trixie and same package versions, it is working. Maybe it is a bad combination of hardware and software? The trouble is on my Dell Latitude 5400.

    Please feel free to ask for more information. Thank you for reading and your help!

    Best regards

    Hans




    -- System Information:
    Debian Release: 13.0
    APT prefers testing-security
    APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing')
    Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
    Foreign Architectures: i386

    Kernel: Linux 6.12.38+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
    Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
    Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
    Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
    LSM: AppArmor: enabled

    Versions of packages plasma-workspace depends on:
    ii dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus] 1.16.2-2
    ii dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus] 1.16.2-2
    ii drkonqi 6.3.4-1
    ii frameworkintegration6 6.13.0-2
    ii gdb 16.3-1
    ii init-system-helpers 1.68
    ii iso-codes 4.18.0-1
    ii kactivitymanagerd 6.3.4-1
    ii kded6 6.13.0-1
    ii kglobalacceld 6.3.6-1
    ii kio6 6.13.0-6
    ii kwallet6 6.13.0-1
    ii kwin-common 4:6.3.6-1
    ii kwin-wayland 4:6.3.6-1
    ii libappstreamqt3 1.0.5-1
    ii libbatterycontrol6 4:6.3.6-2
    ii libc6 2.41-11
    ii libcanberra0 0.30-18
    ii libcolorcorrect6 4:6.3.6-2
    ii libcrypt1 1:4.4.38-1
    ii libdbus-1-3 1.16.2-2
    ii libfontconfig1 2.15.0-2.3
    ii libfreetype6 2.13.3+dfsg-1
    ii libgcc-s1 14.2.0-19
    ii libice6 2:1.1.1-1
    ii libicu76 76.1-4
    ii libkexiv2qt6-0 25.04.0-1
    ii libkf6archive6 6.13.0-2
    ii libkf6authcore6 6.13.0-1
    ii libkf6baloo6 6.13.0-1
    ii libkf6bookmarks6 6.13.0-1
    ii libkf6calendarevents6 6.13.0-1
    ii libkf6colorscheme6 6.13.0-1
    ii libkf6completion6 6.13.0-1
    ii libkf6config-bin 6.13.0-2
    ii libkf6configcore6 6.13.0-2
    ii libkf6configgui6 6.13.0-2
    ii libkf6configqml6 6.13.0-2
    ii libkf6configwidgets6 6.13.0-1
    ii libkf6coreaddons6 6.13.0-1
    ii libkf6crash6 6.13.0-1
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    ii libkf6kiocore6 6.13.0-6
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    ii libkf6kiogui6 6.13.0-6
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    Versions of packages plasma-workspace recommends:
    ii kde-cli-tools 4:6.3.4-1
    ii kio-extras 4:25.04.3-1
    pn kio-fuse <none>
    pn ksystemstats <none>
    pn plasma-workspace-doc <none>
    ii powerdevil 4:6.3.6-1
    ii systemsettings 4:6.3.4-2

    plasma-workspace suggests no packages.

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