Frequently lose task/application manager panels(Windows style task bar)

[Takakage]

I keep a backup copy of ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc. This file contains many desktop and panel settings.

There is also a tutorial for saving configurations generally

[Tip] Save your Plasma configurations and easily switch between them

As many of you have in the meantime painfully come to experience, KDE Plasma, for all the greatness that it offers, does tend to blow up in your face every once in a while, necessitating that you delete all of your Plasma configuration files and start setting up things to your liking from scratch all over again. (Yes, been there, done that, have the T-shirt and the bumper sticker. ) Well, there is a way you can protect yourself against this calamity, and as a bonus, i…

But fair warning: this uses the AUR package konsave. I have never used it myself, and my impression is that konsave may not fully support Plasma 6 until the new konsave version 2.3.0 is released in a few months.

Of course, the best option is to repair the system so that it does not keep resetting on its own. The Arch wiki describes how to reset Plasma settings. Note that you may want to employ a more selective approach to clearing the cache than described in the wiki.