I updated with sudo pacman -Syyu yesterday night. When I woke up minutes ago I can’t open any program. The only thing I can open are System Tray programs which start at boot. The rest of things show a loading icon for 5 full seconds, then crash. I can’t open folders, programs or the terminal. I’d l…

[image] Eoef: I just have no idea what to rename said file and how to do it. After login, run in terminal, or in TTY: mv ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc.backup

I had to rename plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc in ~/.config and restart Plasma twice to reset the things configured in there to default but after that it worked again. Excuse me, how can I restart Plasma alone in this case? And won’t it fail if I alter said file?

This bug appeared in KDE a long time ago. When you click on a desktop icon, the dancing mouse cursor appears for a few seconds, then nothing happens. Have you experienced this too?

Yes, and as in the above link my desktop is gone. I just have no idea what to rename said file and how to do it. Vim can change files but not rename them.

Thanks. To learn more, my desktop appereance has been resetted but everything works as it should. How renaming that had any effect, what it actually did?

[image] Eoef: How renaming that had any effect, what it actually did? With some plasma/kde developed package updates, several configuration procedures, settings, and/or values change in a way that is not backwards compatible. This often produces such problems in Plasma/KDE sessions, because, …

[image] petsam: FWIW, plasma devs could have taken care of this bad situation, if they wanted, or if they could (although, I am pretty sure they have enough skills to do it :person_shrugging: ). Plasma devs are not to blame for this one. It was triggered by the glibc update. Reverting to gli…

[image] BS86: It was triggered by the glibc update. Reverting to glibc 2.36 also solved the issue on my end, I don’t know. If re-creating a config file solves the issue, I doubt you are having the same problem. I guess you could try the same solution (delete the file), in order to confirm …

[image] petsam: I doubt you are having the same problem I am the one that posted the solution in the other thread and posted the link to it in this one. It is the same problem. And yes, I am also wondering why downgrading glibc AND deleting the config solve the issue because with the old glib…

[image] BS86: , I am also wondering why downgrading glibc AND deleting the config solve the issue because with the old glibc, the config still works Dowgrading glibc was not mentioned before, but, as you know Arch, this creates a partial upgrade situation. Neither current OP nor yourself, men…

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BS86 February 8, 2023, 5:14pm 2

Unable to open any apps from desktop Plasma

Hello, I recently updated and realized that I could not open any apps from their launchers on the desktop and toolbar, not even konsole or settings, I had my browser open when I ran the update, and it reopens after a restart, but apart from that and apps open in the background, I cannot start any app. Additionally, my desktop seems to be clear of all files and shortcuts I had on it. Attempting to launch a program from the taskbar results in it going through the animation but not opening. Any he…

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