On 1/19/21 2:20 PM, 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.
There isn't any direct way a user can set the clock font-size, etc.. anymore (other than hacking), so if the problem persists and you don't have some identifiable process spinning out of control, then following what ddemaio suggest is probably the best path.
You know, the subscribe to yet another fragmented list so you can retype your problem and send it there for what used to be able to be handled here. Personally, I think pushing people to the factory list for bug questions is the wrong approach. Factory was supposed to be forward-looking working on upcoming changes, not backwards looking at current bugs, but when you have so many lists to choose from -- who knows anymore...
I have what may be the same problem on a Ryzen/16GB RAM machine running Leap 15.1 and KDE Plasma 5.12.8. The digital clock showing seconds & date will jump several seconds at a time or get jittery or it will hang until I click on it. Additionally, when this happens the Task Manager app tabs will sometimes also become jittery and hang up trying to move in the panel after an apps is opened or closed, until I click on the clock which settles it all down. This behavior seems to happen when I have Chrome open with several windows & 100+ tabs, along with T'bird and 6-10 apps. KsysGuard shows very little CPU load and RAM usage is ~14GB (out of 16GB) with 250MB of swap, so it isn't the hardware. I suspect Plasma or the compositor is the culprit, but I haven't researched it because for me (unlike your daughter) its a small annoyance easily worked around with a click on the clock. (Although this has made me late for dinner more than once.) I suggest you try changing up the desktop mix, i.e., reducing the mix and number of apps to see if that changes the behavior or turning off the compositor or trying a different desktop manager. --dg