Bug 341610 - plasma desktop configuration randomly lost (wallpaper, folder, etc)
Summary: plasma desktop configuration randomly lost (wallpaper, folder, etc)
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: plasma4
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR major
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2014-12-06 21:44 UTC by gustavo
Modified: 2018-06-08 18:25 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description 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 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 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 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