Applications icon missing in system tray

so you could reset your plasma settings completely, something got messed up there…

  1. Log out of KDE.
  2. Switch to another TTY with CTRL + ALT + F2
  3. Login to this new terminal TTY2 session with your username and password.
  4. Stop the Display Manager service:
sudo systemctl stop display-manager.service
  1. Run this command to reset the settings:

find $HOME/.config/ -maxdepth 1 -name 'plasma*' -exec rm {} \;

clear cache again:
rm -rf ~/.cache/*

  1. reboot:
    systemctl reboot