Hi folks,
I have a really annoying issue with the NetworkManager plasmoid. I've been hoping that KDE 4.10 would finally fix it, but it didn't. The plasma desktop simply freezes from time to time. The applications still run fine, I can even launch KRunner, but the panel and the desktop icons are all dead. I observed that the freeze happens about the time when NetworkManager loses a WiFi connection. In most cases, plasma resumes working after a good ten seconds, however, sometimes I have to log out and in to have a working desktop again. I can't tell what makes the difference, but the permanent freeze usually occurs when I'm playing some game or have the Steam client opened, so I guess it's some OpenGL matter. As I'm relying on a rather unstable WiFi connection, this is a severe issue to me.
I did some googling, and found an about one year old report on launchpad apparently describing the same issue I have; there they came to the conclusion that the bug was in the NetworkManager-plasmoid and it goes away with versions > 0.9.0. Now I installed 0.9.2 (openSUSE ships 0.9.0 by default), and the problem persists.
Anyone has an idea how to fix this (other than switching to Wicd, which I'd like to avoid)?
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