kde plasma hangs on reboot, plasma-plasmashell timeout error

Reboot the system. It hangs. Doesn’t crash, doesn’t give an error on screen, just sits there for what feels like forever. Eventually it times out and reboots anyway. But every single reboot does this. Check the logs and you see this: plasma-plasmashell.service: State 'stop-sigterm' timed out. Aborting. plasma-plasmashell.service: Failed with result 'timeout'. KDE Plasma is not shutting down in time. The system gives it a timeout to close gracefully, and Plasma needs more time than that timeout allows. ...

July 24, 2026 · 4 min

keys not repeating on fedora kde wayland, blame ibus

Fedora 44, KDE Plasma, Wayland session. Simple thing, holding a key down. 7777777777777777777 Except it wasn’t doing that anymore. Hold 7, get one 7, and instead of it repeating I’d get a little popup underneath the cursor with a handful of characters sitting in it. Looked exactly like one of those mobile long-press accent menus. Checked System Settings → Input Devices → Keyboard → Key repeat. All fine, delay and rate both set correctly. Tried the Test area right there in Settings, same thing happened, single character then that popup. Tried it in a terminal, tried it in the browser, tried it in an editor. Everywhere. Not one app misbehaving, the whole session. ...

July 20, 2026 · 2 min