Desktop-Background and other settings are not saved after reboot

[Elendil]

If I change the wallpaper, the layout or change to slideshow etc. these are not saved.
Log: http://ix.io/3qcL

[Melways]

Have you tried:

sudo chown username:username ~ -R

Where username is your user name.

As posted in this thread:

https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/logout-from-kde-resets-desktop-to-default/14896

by onyxnz

[Elendil]

Interesting idea, but unfortunately it’s not working.

[jonathon]

@Elendil

these are not saved

Is this an installed system or the live environment?

@Elendil

it’s not working

What is not working? sudo chown?

@Melways

sudo chown username:username ~ -R

I’m surprised this works given the normal usage:

Usage: chown [OPTION]... [OWNER][:[GROUP]] FILE...

I’d probably write it as

sudo chown -R $USER: $HOME

just to make it explicit and not reliant on shell-specific expansions (e.g. ~).

[Elendil]

@jonathon

Is this an installed system or the live environment?

installed

@jonathon

What is not working? sudo chown?

the command does not result in me being able to save my wallpaper in a way that it is still present after a reboot.

@jonathon

I’d probably write it as

sudo chown -R $USER: $HOME

this doesn’t work, either. (the command doesn’t give me errors, but the wallpaper is not saved)

[Elendil]

Problem was fixed with an update. I accidentally switched my wallpaper and it stayed. Everything is working fine now.