I tried each and everything today to track it down, and the most astonishing fact from my original bug report is still that one: - And a curiosity: After removing .config/plasmarc and restarting plasmashell the problem vanishes for a few hours or even a day, before it comes back. It is reproducable. There must be a problem with plasmahshell itself. In my plasmarc the only entry, though is the one for the desktop theme, which in my case is "Air openSUSE".