Half of the times I boot, my desktop is completely black, with no wallpaper and no icons. I fix it with: > sudo killall plasmashell > kstart5 plasmashell I've always had this issue ever since I've been using KDE, first with OpenSuse: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1184866 and then with Manjaro where I still have it A comment from over a year ago in the OpenSUSE bug report says: > Should be fixed in 5.25. Have you tried that? > https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/41fb821545aac4df273fb45d0e4de9ab49143d9c (although the link doesn't seem to have much to do with this issue from the very little I understand of it) STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. reboot 2. log in OBSERVED RESULT The desktop is completely black and empty EXPECTED RESULT The desktop should have the wallpaper image and icons SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Manjaro Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.8 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.110.0 Qt Version: 5.15.10 Kernel Version: 6.1.53-1-MANJARO (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-1065G7 CPU @ 1.30GHz Memory: 7.3 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Iris® Plus Graphics Manufacturer: LENOVO Product Name: 81WE System Version: IdeaPad 3 15IIL05
Do you have more than one screen? If you do, does the issue still reproduce with only one screen?
> Do you have more than one screen? Yes, the laptop's built-in screen and one external screen. The external one is configured as the main and only screen, and the built-in one turned off. When I boot, I do the following things in completely random order (I should not be expected to do them in any particular order): - open the lid if I am turning on the computer, so that I can push the on/off button to turn it on (because sadly the on/off button is under the lid, a stupid design flaw that most laptops share). Or, if I am rebooting but software rebooting is not working, I open the lid so that I can access the on/off button in order to force a power off and then power on. - close the lid while the system is booting - connect the external screen if it wasn't already connected (usually it is, but if I need to open the laptop I also need to take it off of where it usually sits, and for that, sometimes I disconnect everything to take it off more easily, and then I reconnect everything. - log in Sometimes I don't need any of that (except the login), if I am just rebooting and rebooting from software works: in that case I just reboot, the lid remains closed all the time and the external screen remains connected all the time. That is if I don't incur in bug 472581, in which case I need to open the lid so that the login screen shows up on the built-in screen. > does the issue still reproduce with only one screen? I don't know. Maybe not. I very rarely use the laptop without the external screen, and it requires too much time to test it on purpose. I can say with certainty that sometimes It happened that I booted with the built-in screen only and didn't observe the issue, but (a) I am not completely sure that I never did observe the issue with the built-in screen only, (b) with the external screen I don't think it happens 100% of the times, (c) I pretty rarely reboot or turn off and on the computer at all (basically I only do when some bug forces me to, or when I travel).
Ok, thanks. That means this is Bug 469192, unfortunately. It hasn't been fixed yet. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 469192 ***