I run Firefox and have a few tabs open. I have no other programs open.
My taskbar hides automatically and the taskbar at the top does the same.
Recently (About the last week), I found that after working in Firefox for even a few seconds, I cannot access these taskbars. I tried minimising but nothing happens. When I totally minimise - get firefox off the screen, There is a black screen behind. my desktop does not show. The black screen covers all icons - everything. The only way I can get in is to logout or restart.
I have disabled my firefox extensions like adblockers etc. (Google search for my problem)
My system is totally up to date.
Any ideas would be helpful please.
garuda-inxi
System:
Kernel: 6.16.8-zen1-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.2.1
clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
root=UUID=4e7c4d1b-132e-4a90-a7d2-86a9bd75c887 rw rootflags=subvol=@
quiet loglevel=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.4.5 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.18.0
wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: N/A model: N/A serial:
uuid: UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: 5.27
date: 11/13/2023
CPU:
Info: model: Intel N100 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Alder Lake level: v3
note: check built: 2021+ process: Intel 7 (10nm ESF) family: 6
model-id: 0xBE (190) stepping: 0 microcode: 0x1D
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 1 cores: 4 smt: cache:
L1: 384 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x64 KiB L2: 2 MiB desc: 1x2 MiB L3: 6 MiB
desc: 1x6 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1542 min/max: 700/3400 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
governor: powersave cores: 1: 1542 2: 1542 3: 1542 4: 1542 bogomips: 6451
Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-N [UHD Graphics] driver: i915 v: kernel
alternate: xe arch: Xe process: Intel 10nm built: 2020-21 ports:
active: HDMI-A-2 empty: DP-1,DP-2,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0
chip-ID: 8086:46d1 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Microdia USB 2.0 Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-3.4:7 chip-ID: 0c45:64a1
class-ID: 0e02
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.18 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.8
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,intel,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-2 model: Samsung C32F391 serial: built: 2019
res: mode: 1920x1080 hz: 60 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 70 gamma: 1.2
size: 698x393mm (27.48x15.47") diag: 801mm (31.5") ratio: 16:9 modes:
max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris platforms: device: 0 drv: iris
device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: iris surfaceless: drv: iris wayland:
drv: iris x11: drv: iris
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.2.3-arch1.2
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel Graphics (ADL-N)
device-ID: 8086:46d1 memory: 15.03 GiB unified: yes display-ID: :1.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.321 layers: 6 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu
name: Intel Graphics (ADL-N) driver: mesa intel v: 25.2.3-arch1.2
device-ID: 8086:46d1 surfaces: N/A device: 1 type: cpu name: llvmpipe
(LLVM 20.1.8 256 bits) driver: mesa llvmpipe v: 25.2.3-arch1.2 (LLVM
20.1.8) device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: N/A
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info
x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-N PCH High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_avs,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:54c8 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Zoran Personal Media Division (Nogatech) USB Audio and HID
driver: snd-usb-audio type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1
bus-ID: 1-8:8 chip-ID: 0573:1573 class-ID: 0300 serial:
API: ALSA v: k6.16.8-zen1-1-zen status: kernel-api tools: N/A
Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off tools: aucat,midicat,sndioctl
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.4.8 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 4000
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp1s0 state: down mac:
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 3000
bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac:
Device-3: Intel Wireless 7265 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:095a class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp3s0 state: down mac:
Device-4: Realtek RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter driver: r8152 type: USB
rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-3.1:4
chip-ID: 0bda:8153 class-ID: 0000 serial:
IF: enp0s20f0u3u1 state: down mac:
Info: services: NetworkManager, smbd, systemd-timesyncd
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-7:5 chip-ID: 8087:0a2a
class-ID: e001
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: bt-v: 4.2
lmp-v: 8 status: discoverable: no pairing: no class-ID: 6c0104
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 3.64 TiB used: 220.05 GiB (5.9%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Lexar model: SSD NM710 1TB
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s
lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: fw-rev: 9742 temp: 47.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: Backup+ SL
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: USB
rev: 3.0 spd: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 tech: N/A serial:
fw-rev: 0143 scheme: MBR
ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Western Digital
model: WD20NMVW-11EDZS2 size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B type: USB rev: 3.0 spd: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1
tech: HDD rpm: 5200 serial: fw-rev: 1012 scheme: MBR
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 743.63 GiB size: 743.63 GiB (100.00%)
used: 220.02 GiB (29.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 100 MiB size: 96 MiB (96.00%)
used: 27.5 MiB (28.7%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
ID-3: /home raw-size: 743.63 GiB size: 743.63 GiB (100.00%)
used: 220.02 GiB (29.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 743.63 GiB size: 743.63 GiB (100.00%)
used: 220.02 GiB (29.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 743.63 GiB size: 743.63 GiB (100.00%)
used: 220.02 GiB (29.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 15.39 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
comp: zstd avail: lzo-rle,lzo,lz4,lz4hc,deflate,842 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 45.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est. available: 15.39 GiB used: 3.29 GiB (21.4%)
Processes: 227 Power: uptime: 31m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
suspend, test_resume image: 6.13 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,
power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 258 default: graphical
tool: systemctl
Packages: 1875 pm: pacman pkgs: 1845 libs: 469 tools: gnome-software,
octopi, pamac, paru pm: flatpak pkgs: 30 Compilers: clang: 20.1.8
gcc: 15.2.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.3.3 default: fish v: 4.0.8
running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.39
Garuda (2.8.3-2):
System install date: 2024-04-15
Garuda release: 231029
Last full system update: 2025-09-22
Is partially upgraded: No
Relevant software: snapper NetworkManager dracut
Windows dual boot: Probably (Run as root to verify)
Failed units: systemd-vconsole-setup.service
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