[SOLVED] Virtual desktops resetting to one every boot

[fmolina2b]

HI all,

Plasma 5 on Mageia 6 x64

I know that virtual desktops are being disfavoured, but they are useful to me. I used to have the usual four desktops in two rows, but from some time to now at every boot they are resetted to just one. No matter what I try in the system preferences (clicking "Defaults", "Reset") they disappear upon reboot. That probably appeared after an update, but can't tell which one.

I don't think that it is a bug, because in another machine (only different desktop theme) things are as usual.

Not a big problem, but it would be better not having to reconfigure at every boot. Any ideas?

Regards

[jiml8]

I have observed for a long time that if you do not log out of your KDE session before rebooting, many config things don't "stick". This includes if you shut down or reboot from a KDE session, without first logging out.

I suggest you try configuring, then log out.

Then log back in, and proceed as usual. Might work.

If it doesn't work, then you should start looking for things like corrupted config files, corrupted filesystem, or perhaps wrong permissions on the config files, keeping you from writing to them.

[fmolina2b]

Hi,
Solved. It was due to the file kwinrc having root as owner, thus plasma could not read it. It was easy to find ... once I realized that the plasma config files live in .config instead of .kde/.kde4 or something like that, God knows why.
Thanks jiml8
Regards