Bug 341610

Summary:	plasma desktop configuration randomly lost (wallpaper, folder, etc)
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	homem.gustavo
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	major	CC:	ghost53947, homem.gustavo
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description homem.gustavo 2014-12-06 21:44:54 UTC

Sometime after reboot or logout+login desktops settings (such as folder display and wallpaper) are lost.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. login and work
2. shutdown
3. login

Actual Results:  
You may or may not get the desktop as you configured it.

Expected Results:  
You should always get the desktop as you configured it.

There are older reports of this problem but I haven't seen it in version 4.8. Therefore I am assuming this is a new bug. This is kde 4.13.3 on Ubuntu 14.04.

References:
https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=6867
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-984224-highlight-.html
https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=119769

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2014-12-07 10:23:59 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 321781 ***

Comment 2 homem.gustavo 2015-03-20 23:36:13 UTC

why is this a duplicate of  bug 321781?

Afects 4.13.3 on Ubuntu 14.04.

See also:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323211

Comment 3 homem.gustavo 2015-03-20 23:38:10 UTC

(In reply to gustavo from comment #2)
> why is this a duplicate of  bug 321781?

Note that the report of  bug 321781. What I see here is that plasma-desktop-appletsrc is randomly modified, and that

plugin=folderview

becomes

plugin=desktop

Comment 4 homem.gustavo 2015-03-30 22:56:05 UTC

plasma-desktoprc is also changed:

[ViewIds]
1=1
51=2

making visible a new activity instead of the exiting one, even if plasma-desktop-appletsrc is not writable.

Comment 5 ghost53947 2016-04-25 21:22:45 UTC

I have, 
[Containments][178]
activityId=
formfactor=2
immutability=1
lastScreen=0
location=4
plugin=org.kde.panel
wallpaperplugin=org.kde.image

I have 3 monitors, 
if I use lastScreen=0 or lastScreen=1, it goes to the left most screen always. if I use lastScreen=2, it goes to the most right screen. Never the middle. From left to right my screen in Display Configuration is . HDMI-0, DVI-1, DP-1, if I set primary monitor to DVI-1, the panel goes to HDMI-0, if I set primary monitor to HDMI-0, it goes to the DVI-1 screen

Comment 6 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 18:25:17 UTC

Hello!

This bug report was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this bug has already been resolved in Plasma 5.

Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this bug report. If the issue described  here is still present in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting

If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging

Thanks for your understanding!

Nate Graham