[SOLVED] Folder view

[Egg]

My computer randomly forgets that I prefer to use Folder View.
When this happens, it seems to think it's in folder view, i.e. Folder View is shown as being selected, but the desktop is empty. I can get around this by selecting Layout = Desktop and applying it, then selecting Layout = Folder View and clicking 'OK'.
That's fine until the next reboot, when there's a good chance that the desktop will again be empty.
How can the computer forget? Forgetting things is my job...

[doktor5000]

How can the computer forget? Forgetting things is my job...

That was a really good one, need to remember that.

Does that also happen for a newly created user?
What you could try is to move away/rename the file ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc
so that it gets recreated and then log out and back in, and see if it still occurs.

[djennings]

Did you install over the top of a previous Linux distro keeping the same /home directory?

If so it is possible you only have read permission to some config files.
To ensure your user has ownership of all files in the /home

Code: Select all

su
chown youruser:youruser -R /home/youruser

[Egg]

Thanks for the quick replies.
This is a random problem, so I'll report back in a couple of days or so.

[Egg]

I think this was a clean install, but just in case, I tried the magic spell "chown", without success.
So I renamed ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc, and so far, haven't seen a recurrence of the problem. As expected, I did lose a few setttings, but that's a small price to pay. Why would the recreation of this file put things right?
I'll not mark this as solved yet, just in case.

[dbg]

There is a long dicussion of this bug on the KDE website:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=294795

The only way I've found to fix the problem is the same as Egg; delete ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc then redo your icons/panels.

[Egg]

Wow, that is a long discussion.
The workaround is odd. To me, it indicates that either the file wasn't written properly during installation, or when the file is being written (after deletion), another action takes place, such as another config being correctly written.
The workaround does seem to be successful for all.

[dedanna1029]

I've had the same problem on all four computers here (server, laptop with cauldron, netbook, desktop PC.

I've renamed that file so many times it's really not funny at all...

[Ken-Bergen]

I've had the same problem on all four computers here (server, laptop with cauldron, netbook, desktop PC.

I've renamed that file so many times it's really not funny at all...

If you're deleting within a desktop environment it's likely being recreated on logout.
Try at a console with no desktop running.

[dedanna1029]

Aye, sure have been, but from Gnome. Will try from tty, thanks.