System cleaners and Plasma application menu?

I’m wondering if 6.6.1 will fix these issues that I’m seeing. I use all system cleaners just because that’s how I run my system and that’s how my brain operates. Overkill you might add? Probably. Maybe UN-necessary. Here’s what I’ve seen. . . this started a few days ago but it is much more apparent now.

First let me say I use all available ‘cleaners’ to clean my system. . . (i.e. yay -Scc, pacman -Scc, bleachbit, sweeper, Stacer. They all seem to clean residue out of my system. Maybe they do, maybe they don’t. They remove all internet cookies etc. or so I believe.

The problem that I’m now seeing is that when I run ‘Bleachbit’, Stacer, Sweeper, my KDE Plasma application menu (FAVORITES) disappears completely after cleaning. All of the icon’s disappear, even the ones on the task manager bar below. When I reboot the system they come back up and are back on the screen, but the icon order is all ‘scrambled’. Not in the order I originally placed the icons. So something is amiss. I’m use both gui and non-graphical terminal interfaces to do this cleaning.

Is 6.6.1 going to fix these issues? I don’t really know.

Rich :wink:

On a side note, I thought Stacer has been abandoned by the developer.

So far I didn’t face this issue with 6.6.

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I don’t think that’s because of Plasma. It’s the result of your ‘cleaning’. These programs probably delete all your favorites, so you have to recreate them.

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This is all you need

CLEAN JOURNAL:
journalctl --vacuum-time=4weeks

CLEAN CACHE (All Packages):
paccache -r

CLEAN CACHE (Uninstalled Packages):
paccache -ruk0

REMOVE ORPHANS:
yay -Yc

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With these cleaners, you have to be extremely careful to use the right settings. Keep your hands off if you don’t know what you’re doing. Otherwise, you’ll end up with improper use.

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Thanks for all the responses. @ swh I’ll be using your methods to do this. I got to keep notes written down in a small book by the computer to remember everything people tell me. It’s hard to remember things unless you do these things time and time again. Once again thanks for all the responses. @swh is that ‘Bud Spencer’ in your icon? Just wondering. . . if it is, my memory must be still functioning I think. . .

Rich :wink:

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Your memories still work very well :victory_hand:

You may take a look at @UncleSpellbinder’ s Simple EndeavourOS maintenance “Cheat Sheet”. It’s all noticed in that thread

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I wouldn’t use any of these. Pacman has it’s own commands to deal with this.

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