Double-click on Plasma icons does not start the applications

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Hi folks, this happened to me since 2 or 3 month:
after booting to the KDE Plasma desktop, double-clicking the icons will not start the respective applications (in Dolphin the doubleklick works fine !)
Also not when I use a clean, fresh Manjaro KDE install, or a brand new mouse. What I could find out until now: left klicking the networksymbol in the taskbar, or the loudspeaker-icon, then their respective panels pop up. This action only will get the double-click on the desktop icons working again !!
So: I presume something does not initialize well at the very start of KDE Plasma, but does with a simple left-klick on one of those 2 icons in the KDE taskbar.
Any idea which graphical thing get’s his initialization when using the network/audio icon in the taskbar ?

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For general issues/support with KDE, you should post on the KDE forums…
Manjaro does not develop KDE, it simply uses what they produce…

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Hi TriMoon, thanks for your advice.
Anyhow, if you don’t mind, I would like to share the solution with the community here: so I was able to clarify and solve the issue with a KDE developer. Just search for :“doubleklick-icons-on-plasma-workspace-not-working-reliable” in the KDE forum (discuss(dot)kde(dot)org)

Enjoy !

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QML timers go too fast with multi-threaded render loop when using any high refresh rate screens on X11 when using FOSS amdgpu drivers

That’s a great bug report title, kudos to the people who narrowed it down to those particular conditions :joy:

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the solution in short: “To apply the workaround, search for “renderer” in KRunner or Kickoff and open the top entry. In that window, change “Render loop” from “Automatic” to “Basic”.”