KDE icons scrambled/reordered after every reboot

[Sacky]

Hello,
I need some support with a very annoying topic:
since one of the latest system updates (must have been 4-6 weeks ago) my desktop icons get scrambled. Seems that the system is forgetting my favourite order of them after every reboot.
Now I get them alphabetical ordered in 2 rows starting from top left of the screen,
Any idea how to overcome this ?

thanks a lot !

[Mirdarthos]

Hi @Sacky, and welcome!

This sounds like a configuration being saved problem. I don’t know what else it can be. But Try and delete the cache and see it that helps:

rm -r ~/.cache/*

This deletes everything in the hidden (.) cache directory in your home directory (~/), directories and their contents included, (-r).

Re-login and reconfigure your KDE. see if it helps. If not, I think you’ll have to reset KDE config and start from scratch. More here:

How reset all KDE settings?

I used solution from [here was a link] Logout from KDE and run: cd ~/ rm -rf .kde rm -rf .cache/plasmashell* rm -rf .cache/org.kde.dirmodel-qml.kcache rm -rf .cache/kioexec/ .cache/krunner/ .cache/ksycoca5* rm -rf .cache/krunnerbookmarkrunnerfirefoxdbfile.sqlite rm -f .config/plasma* rm -rf .config/kde* cd .local/ rm -rf kate/ kded5/ klipper/ knewstuff3/ kscreen/ konsole/ kwalletd/ ksysguard/ kmail2/ kcookiejar/ kactivitymanagerd/ cd share/ rm -rf dolphin kate kcookiejar kded5 keyri…

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@Mirdarthos

More here:

I used solution from [here was a link]

That suggestion is … a bit overblown.
Thats removing a bunch of stuff that is particular to certain packages and isnt related to cache … the rest is covered rather succinctly (including backups) here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#Configuration_related