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This happens pretty much every night. My panels are working fine. I go to bed and come back the next morning with all of my panels frozen on KDE Plasma.

Sometimes my whole KDE Plasma freezes and then I normally do this and it works most of the time:

killall plasmashell kstart plasmashell

But when only my panels are frozen, then even the above don't work.

Someone recommend I do the following command, but that also didn't work:

plasmashell --replace

What's the correct way to restart and/or fix this issue without fully restarting my computer?

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I ended up finding the solution in a Reddit post. I had to run the following command:

plasmashell || killall plasmashell && kstart5 plasmashell > /dev/null 2>&1 & disown

And that finally worked!

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  • I mean, it would be interesting to debug what makes your plasma shell freeze – solving that would actually sound worthwhile? However, great you got it to work. Question: before you've run this, at a time where stings still work, does systemctl --user status | grep plasma yield anything? Commented Jul 9 at 10:53
  • @MarcusMüller Yeah. I'm more than willing to help debug what causes the issues if you want to contact me outside of StackExchange. It's been an issue for many months now Commented Jul 9 at 16:16
  • @MarcusMüller systemctl --user status | grep plasma works and returns some info from it, but too long to post in a comment here. Commented Jul 9 at 16:16
  • great! That means that your killall and kstart might be a bit counter-productive, and you can just systemctl --user restart {service name}, using the service name that is your plasma shell. Commented Jul 9 at 17:34
  • @MarcusMüller At some point, by checking my command history. I tried systemctl --user restart plasma-plasmashell.service, but I'm assuming that didn't work at the time. Commented Jul 9 at 18:48

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