27th December 2016, 1:35
Hey, how'd you get P5.8.4? I'm jealous; mine is still on 5.8.3, despite KDE Neon getting .4 several weeks ago. I have been thinking of asking the Devs about this for a couple of weeks (i do have the Neon backport enabled].
Anyway, to your question -- this also used to annoy me, so a few months ago i researched it & came up with this little bash script, a shortcut to which sits in the Stack folder of my Cairo-Dock. These days it does not happen too often for me, but when occasionally my Plasma session goes a bit dodgy, i run this script from said shortcut in CD. Sometimes i have to do it 2 - 4 times in a row before P is happy again, & sometimes nothing helps so more drastic action is needed. However, most of the infrequent times that i need to use it, it does the job:
Plasma5_kill_&_restart.sh
Anyway, to your question -- this also used to annoy me, so a few months ago i researched it & came up with this little bash script, a shortcut to which sits in the Stack folder of my Cairo-Dock. These days it does not happen too often for me, but when occasionally my Plasma session goes a bit dodgy, i run this script from said shortcut in CD. Sometimes i have to do it 2 - 4 times in a row before P is happy again, & sometimes nothing helps so more drastic action is needed. However, most of the infrequent times that i need to use it, it does the job:
Plasma5_kill_&_restart.sh
Code:
!#/bin/bash
killall plasmashell
kwin --replace
kstart plasmashell &