[plasmashell] [Bug 356899] Desktop Settings are not saved and loads default settings on reboot/startup.

[Scott Grayban]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356899

--- Comment #29 from Scott Grayban  ---
New bug created https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421498 because it's not
exactly the same OP bug report.

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[plasmashell] [Bug 356899] Desktop Settings are not saved and loads default settings on reboot/startup.

[Scott Grayban]

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--- Comment #28 from Scott Grayban  ---
Forgot to add my KDE info in above comment... sorry.

Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10
KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.5
Qt Version: 5.11.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.54.0
Kernel Version: 5.3.0-0.bpo.2-amd64
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-2500 CPU @ 3.30GHz
Memory: 15.7 GiB of RAM

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[plasmashell] [Bug 356899] Desktop Settings are not saved and loads default settings on reboot/startup.

[Scott Grayban]

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--- Comment #27 from Scott Grayban  ---
Same issue as well still on Debian Buster.

Only the Desktop settings are not being saved. I have tried everything using
chattr +i to setting chmod 400 and still cannot get the desktop settings to
save.

And just to make sure it wasn't a issue using a old user account on my box I
created a brand new account and on that account the same issue still happened.
All settings are saved for everything BUT the desktop settings.

Selected wallpaper is not being saved nor is the icon layout in Desktop Layout
(Folder View). Switched to desktop mode and that didn't save either and keeps
reverting back to the default desktop layout.

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[plasmashell] [Bug 356899] Desktop Settings are not saved and loads default settings on reboot/startup.

[Joost Bremmer]

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--- Comment #26 from Joost Bremmer  ---
There does indeed seem to be some kind of regression as I am encountering this
behaviour as well in 5.18.4 on Arch.

This seems to be contained to "Desktop Settings" only, as panel changes are
saved, but it also occurs between login/logout for me as well.

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[plasmashell] [Bug 356899] Desktop Settings are not saved and loads default settings on reboot/startup.

[bugzilla_noreply]

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--- Comment #25 from natalie_clar...@yahoo.de ---
It does not seem to be fixed; I am having the exact same bug on Plasma 5.18.3
with Kubuntu 19.19.

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[plasmashell] [Bug 356899] Desktop Settings are not saved and loads default settings on reboot/startup.

[David Edmundson]

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--- Comment #24 from David Edmundson  ---
The original 2016 bug is fixed as per #17.

If you have a different bug, please reopen as a different bug with new relevant
info.

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[David Edmundson]

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[plasmashell] [Bug 356899] Desktop Settings are not saved and loads default settings on reboot/startup.

[apache]

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--- Comment #23 from apache  ---
Hey developers, you have lots of bug reports about different Plasma elements
not saving settings:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395468

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=393881

Will you do something about it?

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[plasmashell] [Bug 356899] Desktop Settings are not saved and loads default settings on reboot/startup.

[Paul Chany]

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[apache]

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--- Comment #22 from apache  ---
This may be related if Plasma has general problem with saving settings

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=390890

Any feedback will be greatly appreciated.

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[apache]

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--- Comment #21 from apache  ---
Plasma 5 doesn't save settings on Manjaro, Plasma 5.13.4 qt 5.11.1
Framework 5.48.0
4.14.65-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Aug 18 13:29:56 UTC 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Not all, because some settings are respected and some are not. 

For example I can align icons on Desktop to the right or to the left and it
works ok. Settings that I set in system setting seems to be respected. It looks
like only those changed from applets are not and from Dolphin options are not,
but not all. 

When I set Dolphin Preferences > General > Confirmations and thick the
Executing scripts I can run .desktop file (run application) from different
Dolphin locations but option in Dolphin remains unmarked.

I unmarked kmix volume feedback, I don't want this feedback to pop-up when I
for example watch something. Yet, it still appears but only when I use keyboard
shortcut to change volume. When I use slider in kmix the icon doesn't show.

Plasma also can’t remember kmenu settings. For example I change name of entry
in kmenu edit, Web browser Firefox to Firefox and save it, still in kmenu is
visible Web browser Firefox.

I have Manjaro and the latest updates installed. Plasma 5.13.4

I created new user with home folder and checked default permissions.
I only had one file with different permissions:

-rwxr-xr-x plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc

and I corrected it and restarted system but with no effect.

There have to be some settings files that are responsible for this.

I found some workarounds for my problems.

Name of Firefox has changed in kmenu when I changed it in firefox.desktop file
in 
/home/user/.local/share/applications/

Right mouse click on file, properties and edit.

For sound volume change I unmarked / unchecked option in system Settings →
Workspace behaviour 
Display visual feedback for status changes. But this looks like some general
setting for whole Plasma. 
https://i.imgur.com/8u9ELoe.png

Perhaps this is related to this bug.

https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=289=153661=402828#p402824

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[plasmashell] [Bug 356899] Desktop Settings are not saved and loads default settings on reboot/startup.

[Paul Chany]

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--- Comment #20 from Paul Chany  ---
I can confirm that that this issue is still in Plasma Desktop 5.11.5.

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[plasmashell] [Bug 356899] Desktop Settings are not saved and loads default settings on reboot/startup.

[Bhushan Shah via KDE Bugzilla]

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--- Comment #19 from Bhushan Shah  ---
This issue has been fixed by commit mentioned in Comment #17

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[plasmashell] [Bug 356899] Desktop Settings are not saved and loads default settings on reboot/startup.

[David Brooke via KDE Bugzilla]

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--- Comment #18 from David Brooke  ---
I believe that this bug is related if not the same issue:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370411
I tried the patch that Jonathan Marten posted and it solves my issue. With the
patch I can now change from desktop view to folder view and it is retained
after a reboot or logout / login.

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[plasmashell] [Bug 356899] Desktop Settings are not saved and loads default settings on reboot/startup.

[Jeremy Huffman via KDE Bugzilla]

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--- Comment #17 from Jeremy Huffman  ---
Appears this has been fixed here:
https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=plasma-workspace.git=commit=53b2a407af9d1d60cfbb1a42af8546ab0a156d38

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[plasmashell] [Bug 356899] Desktop Settings are not saved and loads default settings on reboot/startup.

[Sebastian Frei via KDE Bugzilla]

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[plasmashell] [Bug 356899] Desktop Settings are not saved and loads default settings on reboot/startup.

[Heiko Tietze via KDE Bugzilla]

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--- Comment #16 from Heiko Tietze  ---
Still an issue under 5.8

Environment: Notebook with external display, one with folder view the other
desktop. Background image (happens always) and layout (desktop/wallpaper
configuration) is lost after restart. Happens when I wait until final shutdown;
but since this takes some seconds my expectation is to have a reliable setup
also when I close the lid after clicking shutdown.

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[plasmashell] [Bug 356899] Desktop Settings are not saved and loads default settings on reboot/startup.

[Jonathan Marten via KDE Bugzilla]

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--- Comment #15 from Jonathan Marten  ---
ScreenCorona -> ShellCorona in previous comment!

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[plasmashell] [Bug 356899] Desktop Settings are not saved and loads default settings on reboot/startup.

[Jonathan Marten via KDE Bugzilla]

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--- Comment #14 from Jonathan Marten  ---
There is a fix that appears to work for me, although I only have a single
monitor setup and have not been able to test it with multiple screens.

The problem happens when starting with a new configuration and then changing
the desktop containment from the default Desktop to a Folder View.  The
containment is switched correctly in
ScreenCorona::setContainmentTypeForScreen(), but the newly created containment
has its
lastScreen set to -1 (because it has not been displayed anywhere yet) and it is
saved in the config file with that setting, as seen in comment #5.  On the next
startup that containment is not found by
ScreenCorona::createContainmentForActivity(), because its screen number does
not match, and a new default containment is created.

The solution is to copy the lastScreen, along with the activityId, when the new
containment is being created in setContainmentTypeForScreen().

Patch for plasma-workspace/shell/screencorona.cpp:

diff --git a/shell/shellcorona.cpp b/shell/shellcorona.cpp
index 778e760..b8dbf39 100644
--- a/shell/shellcorona.cpp
+++ b/shell/shellcorona.cpp
@@ -1554,6 +1554,7 @@ Plasma::Containment
*ShellCorona::setContainmentTypeForScreen(int screen, const

 newContainment->init();
 newCg.writeEntry("activityId", oldContainment->activity());
+newCg.writeEntry("lastScreen", oldContainment->lastScreen());
 newContainment->restore(newCg);

newContainment->updateConstraints(Plasma::Types::StartupCompletedConstraint);
 newContainment->save(newCg);

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[Jonathan Marten via KDE Bugzilla]

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[plasmashell] [Bug 356899] Desktop Settings are not saved and loads default settings on reboot/startup.

[Nick Cross via KDE Bugzilla]

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[plasmashell] [Bug 356899] Desktop Settings are not saved and loads default settings on reboot/startup.

[Dennis Gnad via KDE Bugzilla]

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--- Comment #13 from Dennis Gnad  ---
I can also confirm the problem of the Wallpaper / Desktop Layout resetting
after reboot/re-login in Debian Testing/Stretch ("plasma-workspace 4:5.4.3-2"),
after updating from Debian Stable/Jessie recently.

My setup also includes 2 physical monitors, but I didn't try the workaround so
far.

(It would also not be a permanent solution: One of the Monitors is rotated and
I don't really want to remove it from the xorg.conf in case of a login to other
X sessions that might not save+restore xrandr settings)

With Favorites I have another problem that I just reported:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362182 - but I think it is mostly
unrelated.

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[plasmashell] [Bug 356899] Desktop Settings are not saved and loads default settings on reboot/startup.

[Sebastian Frei via KDE Bugzilla]

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[plasmashell] [Bug 356899] Desktop Settings are not saved and loads default settings on reboot/startup.

[Frank Sandefur via KDE Bugzilla]

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--- Comment #12 from Frank Sandefur  ---
In playing with this some more, I have discovered two things.

First, I manually removed all references to the second monitor from  the
xorg.conf file, and as a result I no longer lost the desktop settings or icons,
except for on a reboot, the screen would come up with a right-side scroll bar (
because one or more icons were positioned below the viewable limit of the
screen)...and that was a result of the icons being repositioned from where I'd
put them.
This behaviour occurs regardless of whether or not the icons are 'locked'

Second, if no icon is positioned along the lower edge of the screen prior to a
reboot, the positions and desktop settings are all retained correctly.

I hope that helps

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[Frank Sandefur via KDE Bugzilla]

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--- Comment #11 from Frank Sandefur  ---
I am having the same issue on Kubuntu 15.10.  However, my trouble began when I
configured a second monitor to my system. 

It is worth noting that my hardware configuration has not changed, and worked
flawlessly under Kubuntu 14.04LTS (Plasm 4.8.6 I think).  

On reboot I come to a blank screen, drivers and resolution appear to be
correct. a Right-click to open Folder View Settings reveals it has reverted to
Desktop Layout with no wallpaper selected. Selecting Folder view and a
wallpaper restores everything, except that all my icons have reverted to
default sizes and are lined up across the top of the screen, rather than the
smaller sizes and arrangement I'd manually set up.

My system is:  Kubuntu 15.10, KDE Plasma version 5.4.2, Qt version 5.4.2,
Kernel version 4.2.0-22-generic, 64-bit.
4 x Intel Core I5-3470 CPU @3.20 GHz, 7.7 GiB Ram, Nvidia 2Gb GT640

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[plasmashell] [Bug 356899] Desktop Settings are not saved and loads default settings on reboot/startup.

[Elvis Stansvik via KDE Bugzilla]

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--- Comment #1 from Elvis Stansvik  ---
I can confirm the issue of Desktop Settings being lost on logout/login. I'm on
Plasma 5.5.1. I can not reproduce the issue with Application Menu favorites
being lost, for me they remain.

I will attach my .config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc as it looks
before changing settings, after changing settings and after logout/login.

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[Elvis Stansvik via KDE Bugzilla]

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--- Comment #2 from Elvis Stansvik  ---
Created attachment 96212
  --> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=96212=edit
~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc before applying settings

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[Elvis Stansvik via KDE Bugzilla]

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--- Comment #4 from Elvis Stansvik  ---
Created attachment 96214
  --> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=96214=edit
~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc after logging out and in
again

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[Elvis Stansvik via KDE Bugzilla]

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--- Comment #3 from Elvis Stansvik  ---
Created attachment 96213
  --> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=96213=edit
~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc after unchecking "Show
desktop toolbox" and setting Layout to Folder View

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[Elvis Stansvik via KDE Bugzilla]

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--- Comment #6 from Elvis Stansvik  ---
My ~/.xsession-errors after relogin, shows no indication of a plasmashell crash
during the relogin (searched for "crash" and "plasmashell" in it).

Is it possible that plasmashell somehow crashed during logout, and I was never
notified of it? If so, how can I confirm this?

Or do you have any other idea regarding the strange extra [Containments][43] I
get above after relogin (which does not have my changed settings)?

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[Elvis Stansvik via KDE Bugzilla]

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--- Comment #7 from Elvis Stansvik  ---
Or is the lastScreen setting the culprit here? After applying the settings
changes, I have lastScreen=-1 in the [Containments][42].

Before the change, I had lastScreen=0 in [Containments][28], lastScreen=1 in
[Containments][35] and lastScreen=-1 in [Containments][8].

I don't really understand the meaning of these three desktop containments. Why
do I have three? And what does the -1 signify? I have two monitors, but I'm
only working on the external monitor right now, the laptop internal monitor
output is not active.

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[Elvis Stansvik via KDE Bugzilla]

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--- Comment #8 from Elvis Stansvik  ---
Another piece of info: In my .xsession-errors, I get several:

kscreen: Primary output changed from KScreen::Output(Id: 73 , Name: "VGA1" ) (
"VGA1" ) to KScreen::Output(Id: 73 , Name: "VGA1" ) ( "VGA1" )

printed, and this happens after

Plasma Shell startup completed

is printed.

Can it be that plasmashell is somehow confused when these spurious (VGA1 ->
VGA1) output changes happens, and by the time I apply my settings is don't know
which screen they should be applied for? (the lastScreen=-1 ?).

I should note that I use xrandr from command line to change monitors normally,
as I've had problems with crashes in both Plasma (and in Qt, via Plasma) when
changing monitors through System Settings (believe this will finally be fixed
with Qt 5.6). But while doing these tests, I was not changing monitors at any
time, the external one was the only one active.

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[Elvis Stansvik via KDE Bugzilla]

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--- Comment #10 from Elvis Stansvik  ---
See also https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351079 which I believe is the
issue with containments I'm seeing, and which may be related (causing?) this
bug.

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