On Wednesday 20 January 2021, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 1/18/21 6:47 AM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
The clock update is useful when she is taking remote exams (at the University). Also, after the update, programs like zoom have become unstable. Zoom itself was not updated. But all else has been as part of the usual Tumbleweed updates.
Roger,
If you have checked top and nothing is spinning out of control, then there is likely an old config bit or problem with KDE there. With KDE5/Plasma, there have been several additional "nanny" layers that provide automatic formatting and font sizing put in place that are supposed to maintain the systray widgets in the proper (KDE chosen) size and format. If there is a bit of an old config or setting related to the clock or systray, it could very well be giving the nanny layer logic fits.
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If it's a config issue if should go away for a freshly created user. For example, my launcher's digikam icons sometimes disappear, but this doesn't happen to my newly created tumb1 test account, so my problem is very likely being caused by some config conflict of the nature you've described. However I wouldn't discount the possibility that the OP's problem might be hardware or possibly graphics-driver related, so as I previously suggested I would first check dmesg and journalctl. It also might be worth checking the user's .local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log