KDE panel icons and launcher don't start programs anymore

[pazzoeo]

Hello, I’ve been looking everywhere for an answer to my problem but I can’t find anything. After an update some days ago, my panel icons and app launcher suddenly stopped working: when I click on a program I want to run, it tries for a few seconds and nothing shows up.

I can’t even figure out what log to check for information, but I did find out that the problem isn’t there if I create a new user and switch to it. Can anyone help me ? Thank you.

[jcorporon]

Solution is found in the forum from a couple of weeks ago, searching should have found it. Here it is:

Programs only open with Krunner, desktop icons missing after 2-12-2023 Update

create a new test user in system settings, reboot and log in with the test user … if it has no issues its something messed up in your main user, so in that case, in your main user in your home directory rename the following folders: .cache to .cache.bak .config to .config.bak and delete or rename the kscreen folder in /home/.local/share/kscreen reboot

[pazzoeo]

Oh, sorry, I didn’t see it
Yeah, that works ! The better solution (in the same thread) was actually this:

Programs only open with Krunner, desktop icons missing after 2-12-2023 Update

The issue seems to be within the file .config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc, specifically within this section: [ScreenMapping] itemsOnDisabledScreens= After deleting the section (best to use vim or something that works on ~20 MB file), and rebooting, everything is back to normal.

Thank you