After the recent update kde started deleting files on mouseclick.
I logged out of kde and went on bspwm. I did notice it when I used my wireless mouse but later it worked fine.
But on kde using trackpad mouse but mouse buttons gave the same result.
I look for terminal output in dolphin and it said: dolphin kf.kio.core: "Could not enter folder tags:/." kf.kio.core: "Could not enter folder tags:/." kf.kio.core: We got some errors while running testparm "Error loading services." kf.kio.core: We got some errors while running 'net usershare info' kf.kio.core: "Can't load /etc/samba/smb.conf - run testparm to debug it\n" Cannot initialize model with data QJsonObject() . missing: QJsonValue(string, "urls") "The file or folder /home/nirvash/Desktop/txt/claw does not exist." "The file or folder /home/nirvash/Desktop/txt/claw does not exist." "The file or folder /home/nirvash/Desktop/txt/claw does not exist." ^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~^[[3
So the output here keyspam in the end and it stopped once I clicked the button again.
Sorry I tried posting image but apparently I cannot post embed items. wow
I checked logs with journalctl:
I mostly noticed multiple lines like this : plasmashell[7796]: file:///usr/lib/qt/qml/QtQuick/Controls/Styles/Plasma/ToolButtonStyle.qml:196:13: QML Connections: Implicitly defined onFoo properties in Connections are deprecated. Use this syntax instead: function onFoo(<arguments>) { ... }
I’m guessing this is the message I’m getting when I click any file and it goes to the trash:
plasmashell[7796]: "The file or folder /home/nirvash/Desktop/icllou.txt does not exist."
Oct 03 09:56:05 nirvash-pc kwin_x11[7752]: file:///usr/share/kwin/aurorae/MenuButton.qml:22: TypeError: Cannot read property 'closeOnDoubleClickOnMenu' of null
Oct 03 09:56:05 nirvash-pc kwin_x11[7752]: file:///usr/share/kwin/aurorae/MenuButton.qml:22: TypeError: Cannot read property 'closeOnDoubleClickOnMenu' of null
Whenever I click with the mouse the file got sent to the trash. It happened with any file regardless of file manager. It also happened with thunar.
And I would get multiple messages on screen saying the file I clicked on does not exist. This got real awful. I logged out of kde. I took a pic of the notification on screen.
Bspwm did not exhibit this. I don’t know what’s causing it in kde.
I’ve desperately searching for answers on reddit and this forum. But mostly none bothered.
Bspwm did not exhibit any of this. That seems like a workaround.
I created a new user and logged in. I did not notice any odd stuff. Nothing is moved to trash on click.
No it doesn’t have any info. That’s why I put the log in my post. That was the message. But 40 notifications popped on screen to say the file doesn’t exist. That’s why I tried to put the image. But the log is enough.
OK, so you have a profile issue and it’s going to take days if not weeks to find out exactly what you did in the current profile for it to be messed up like that.
Therefore, we’re going to do the following:
Verify that the new user has access to the same groups as your old one by executing groups and comparing the output of both users.
groups fullmetal
groups fullmetal2
(Where obviously, fullmetal is your old user and fullmetal2 is your new one.)
E.G. if fullmetal is a member of operator and fullmetal2 isn’t, execute:
If that worked and you had no errors, remove the documents from your old user:
rm --recursive /home/fullmetal/Documents/*
repeat for:
Pictures
Videos,
Music,
.thunderbird,
.mozilla/firefox/,
Templates, and everything else that is important to you.
Linux games like Battle of Wesnoth have their game data stored under .local/share/ E.G. .local/share/wesnoth
After everything has been copied over, disable the old user so you cannot accidentally log on:
usermod --lock fullmetal
If you would have theming going on, don’t do everything in one day but do this at the rate of 1 application / theme / whatever per day and if the problem crops up again, roll back your last change
in 1 month delete the entire home directory of your old user, but don’t delete the user itself so that in 6 months time files still owned by that user will still show up under its username.
If you ever migrate to a new machine, just don’t migrate the old user: only the new one.
From now on, start making backups so you can roll back and never have to do this again:
1)I am no poweruser. I did not mess with any settings. The main account has access to some default groups. I logged back into my main account and changed the theme. I don’t see nothing odd that has happened after that.
2)But I don’t know if I can just delete this account. I only have a 1 tb external harddrive. I don’t have NAS or anything. I will backing up slowly.
3)I don’t have themes or anything. But I have some old games in wine. And documents. I will move the docunents.
4)Bottomline I still want to know where to look about this problem. If I give up learning to fix I will never learn. As of now I don’t see any exhibits. But I will still like to understand what happened.
while you now work in your new user account without having your files being deleted when you click them, *you can compare all settings one by one between the two profiles.
That’s what we already did: the new user does not have this weird behaviour and why I’m asking to copy his/her data over to the new account as a simple click seems to delete his/her data and you know I’m Mr Backup here so rather paranoid about data loss and why I started helping OP in the first place…
Hey there. I have copied documents, downloads, pictures and desktop so far. I still have certain doubts.
I have copied my essential stuff like mozilla. Is that ok? Can I copy my keepass xc stuff and thunderbird? These are hidden folders but they are not in config or local. Do I need to copy files from local or config for those apps?
What should I do about steam/proton, wine and lutris? How do I have to copy them? What folders should I copy?
I don’t have those, but the principle is the same: copy the directories from your home directory to your new user. E.G. For Battle of Wesnoth (Which I have:)
I’ll be editing the original answer to include anything you ask additionally so that the next user that has the same problem as you has a robust procedure to follow.
You’re learning about your system! You’ll be a better hacker able to sort out more issues after you"re done and will be in a better position to take good backups in the end!
If you’re in need of a laugh and more basic Linux information, read this when you get frustrated again:
Last I copied my wine folder and folders I sync with my phone.
Here is the weird thing. I copied stuff using terminal commands. But the history is not showing them. The stuff I see is old. Commands used to copy wine was not there.
This is another weird thing. When I boot my system grub shows two entries of manjaro. One says manjaro linux. Another entry says manjaro linux 20.1.1 on dev/sda. What is happening?
So the culprit is somewhere in there! I you copy hidden directories (starting with a .) they generally contain settings and one of those is what’s causing the errant behaviour.
Delete those and see if that makes the problem disappear, then copy them more carefully (directory per directory)
Did you close the terminal with exit or Ctrl+D before shutting down your machine? If not you did this:
