kde plasma widgets including taskbar incredibly slow

[fervent lagoon]

dont know what happened but after a restart everything is just not responding at all
ive updated, ive restarted, not sure what to do next

[fervent lagoon]

so i moved my whole config folder to a backup and the issue was gone, not sure w h y but it was. but im trying to figure that out so i dont have to reset my entire config 😭

if anyone has any ideas or how i can even troubleshoot that would be amazing

[digital knoll]

Have you tried bisecting?

[fervent lagoon]

im sorry im not sure what that is

[digital knoll]

Since you said the problem is in the configuration files (~/.config), try doing a binary search there and hunt down the curlpit.

[fervent lagoon]

how could i do that?

or what do i search for to learn about that i guess

[digital knoll]

make a backup of ~/.config and copy half the files or directories from there to ~/.config and check for the problem, divide and conquer. worst case, check 16 times. (assuming you have 65536 files/directories in the first level of ~/.config, which is unlikely). This is a stupid method, but could be used if you have no idea what's happening.

[fervent lagoon]

ah okay, well once im back on my pc ill try that. thank you! i really appreciate the response hahaha its been a bit of a headache for me

[teal sluice]

Holy Roman Empire received a thank you cookie!

[digital knoll]

Also try searching for this problem on the Arch forum, it is unlikely that you are the only victim.

[digital knoll]

If this is a common problem for you, please consider using source control (such as git) for your configurations, this way you can easily roll back to old configurations if something goes wrong, it should also make bisection easier.

[fervent lagoon]

do you have any reccomended resources or videos that i can check out to figure out how to do this correctly? im fairly new with terms and stuff so im unsure what to google haha

[digital knoll]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dotfiles is a good place to start.

The most primitive method is to simply set up ~/.config as a git repo.

[fervent lagoon]

thank you so much!