Problem with plasma desktop

General system
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i’ve been having problems since i updated plasma desktop back to 27 october, since then whenever i login all i get is endeavour’s wallpaper and the mouse cursor, nothing else, right mouse click doesn’t work, tried the terminal shortcut but that didn’t work either, so i’ve been using xfce til i get that problem solved

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Whenever you hit a DE specific problem like that I always recommend creating a new user account and trying to log in with it.

That will let you know if the issue is with the config/cache of the specific user or if it is a global problem with your install.

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i have nvidia driver installed and it works just fine, everything works fine on xfce so i believe it might be something related to plasma desktop

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Right, but you don’t know if it is something in config/cache of your user or something actually wrong with your plasma install.

That is what testing with a new user account does for you.

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what’s the easiest way for creating a new user account ?

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sudo useradd -m testusername
sudo passwd testusername
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great, i can do that from xfce and just restart to try the new user right ??

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Yes, you can do that.

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Just tried it, same result with new user

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Is your system fully up-to-date?

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Yes

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What is the output of:

cat /etc/pacman.conf /etc/pacman.d/* | grep -i ignore
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[ramon@ramon-m61pmes2p ~]$ LANG=C cat /etc/pacman.conf /etc/pacman.d/* | grep -i ignore
cat: /etc/pacman.d/gnupg: Is a directory
cat: /etc/pacman.d/hooks: Is a directory
# Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of IgnoreGroup
#IgnorePkg   =
#IgnoreGroup =
[ramon@ramon-m61pmes2p ~]$
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Try reinstalling plasma to ensure nothing is missing or corrupt. It shouldn’t hurt anything.

sudo pacman -Syu plasma

You can select “all” if it asks you what you want to install.

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is this valid for the plasma-meta package ? that’s normally how i get plasma installed

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It shouldn’t hurt it. It will just re-install the packages in the group.

Unlike meta packages, groups don’t get installed. Only the individual packages in the group get installed. However, re-installing the meta-package will do nothing so there is no reason to do that.

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This worked, thanks a lot !!

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I’ve had the same problem.
After an update the plasma workspace was a dark hole, i discovered that the weather plugin i was using cause the issue. So I would suggested that if something similar happens in the future to remove the configuration file for the plasma panel and restart it.

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