How to fix an unresponsive KDE Plasma taskbar

Today, I was coding for my startup, Caprycon , on my laptop running Kubuntu 26.04 LTS. I looked down at the bottom right of my screen to check the time and noticed it was stuck at 6:10 PM. Updating my date and time settings did nothing. When I tried to switch applications by clicking the icons on my KDE Plasma taskbar, they were unresponsive. That's when I realized the entire taskbar had frozen. Here is how to fix it. How to Fix an Unresponsive KDE Plasma Taskbar Press ALT + SPACE . This opens KRunner , which will appear as a drop-down search bar at the top of your screen. Enter the following

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