Timeshift with Rsync? Pretty easy… just open the snapshot inside live boot with the Timeshift GUI and it will show you the Partitions which will get replaced.
As far i remember you not even have to chroot.
Since i have no exact idea what this issue could be, maybe your Widget since i dont have any problems but not using Widgets or Virtual Desktop… with KDE on my 3 year’s old AMD Laptop (Wayland) and 4 years KDE install on my Intel/Nvidia PC (X11) both system using LTS Kernel 6.6.
Maybe its something related to Maintaining?
I just had 14 days ago to merge this 3 pacnew files:
/etc/pacman.conf
/etc/pam.d/kde
/etc/mkinitcpio.conf
and as said now in the newest stable update again, you need to use:
sudo mkinitcpio -P
after some changes around mkinitcpio.
If you have AUR enabled, there was also several files that switched from official repo to AUR and need to be deleted under Foreign Packages.
I also deleted old plasma5 orphans after Updating to Plasma 6.0.4 with:
sudo pacman -Ru kf5