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.

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  • blackbrook
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    1 year ago

    I haven’t had the taskbar missing on boot, but I did have the problem, a version or two back (of Plasma), of it going missing when unplugging my external monitor to switch back to the laptop’s built-in in monitor (my config is set up to have the built-in turned off when the external monitor is plugged in).

    I mention this in case you are using an external monitor and this is the same bug triggered by monitor detecting and switching on boot up.