Icons Moving on Hover

Whenever I hover on icons, they appear to move? This makes the task bar and activity bar pretty unusable (see video).

This happens on plasma, x11, and on both the breeze/carl (downloaded) themes.

https://paste.centos.org/view/55900ca9
https://paste.centos.org/view/35d97034

Solution

Aklright - after much digging I think I got it.

so I finally found this post on the manjaro forums about KDE
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/hover-messes-up-icons/161780/15

Then initial solution posted was this

cd ~/.config && for j in plasma*; do mv -- "$j" "${j%}.bak"; done && mv Trolltech.conf Trolltech.conf.bak && rm -rf ~/.cache/* && kbuildsycoca6 --noincremental && cd ~ && echo -e "\nFinished Clearing Plasma Settings and User Cache.\n\nPlease Reboot.\n"

cd ~/.config && for j in plasma*; do mv -- "$j" "${j%}.bak"; done && mv Trolltech.conf Trolltech.conf.bak && rm -rf ~/.cache/* && kbuildsycoca6 --noincremental && cd ~ && echo -e "\nFinished Clearing Plasma Settings and User Cache.\n\nPlease Reboot.\n"

cd ~/.config && for j in plasma*; do mv -- "$j" "${j%}.bak"; done && mv Trolltech.conf Trolltech.conf.bak && rm -rf ~/.cache/* && kbuildsycoca6 --noincremental && cd ~ && echo -e "\nFinished Clearing Plasma Settings and User Cache.\n\nPlease Reboot.\n"

cd ~/.config && for j in plasma*; do mv -- "$j" "${j%}.bak"; done && mv Trolltech.conf Trolltech.conf.bak && rm -rf ~/.cache/* && kbuildsycoca6 --noincremental && cd ~ && echo -e "\nFinished Clearing Plasma Settings and User Cache.\n\nPlease Reboot.\n"

but while that did reset my desktop/KDE environment, it did not work for me.

Scrolling down, I tried the second to last solution, BUT NOT THE FINAL LINE - as that seems... dangerous...

rm -rf ~/.cache/*
rm ~/.config/*
kbuildsycoca6 --noincremental

rm -rf ~/.cache/*
rm ~/.config/*
kbuildsycoca6 --noincremental

rm -rf ~/.cache/*
rm ~/.config/*
kbuildsycoca6 --noincremental

rm -rf ~/.cache/*
rm ~/.config/*
kbuildsycoca6 --noincremental

As well, I decided to manually go into my

~/.local/share

~/.local/share

~/.local/share

~/.local/share and delete all kde/plasma folders.

DO NOT RUN

rm -rf ~/.*

rm -rf ~/.*

rm -rf ~/.*

rm -rf ~/.* <- NOT THIS ONE

Finally - after restarting, the icon issue is no longer present.

NOTE - this does still reset your desktop environment. It WILL require you to re-setup your panels/wallpaper/etc, but it's worth it for the issue to go away.

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Hover messes up Icons

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