Hi,
I wanted to install a new mobo in my wife’s PC, but some problem which is yet to identify caused me to return to the previous motherboard, which has seen better days certainly. The syytem didn’t boot, hence I decided to reinstall Manjaro. This wasn’t trivial, all kind of things were in the way due to the age of the motherboard (no uefi capability). But I managed and got it running. The only problem: quite a few icons are missing, which belong to the standard equipment of Manjaro KDE, I would think. Like the icon for the main menu (bottom left button), all icons next to it (for leaving the system and the calculator), and some app icons are also missing, like for the konsole etc. When I open the main menu, there are three icons on the left, one for dolphin, one for kate and one for firefox, but in between there is room for more. When I hover above those places, I see that it’s supposed to be konsole and system settings. In the task bar (at the bottom of the screen are most icons missing at the right side, only the one for pamac is there indicating that there are updates (only two, firefox and sudo, I guess that doesn’t change anything at the current issue). I restarted, I read some threads and tried some suggestions, the only thing I cannot do is downgrading plasma, because those threads are 3 years old and I don’t know to which version I should downgrade.
It may be helpful to know that I kept the user’s (my wife’s) home folder and didn’t change anything. I know her setup was up to date before the problem occured, and she used the stable branch as it is now installed.
Should I delete some caches? If so, which ones and how?
Was this the user profile that you had difficulty with previously? If it is, and given the history, the wiser approach might have been to install with a fresh user, and manually duplicate settings later.
If it is the same previously troublesome profile, it stands to reason that those troubles might now be carried over.
Thank you for your replies! @mirdarthos: unfortunately, deleting the cache didn’t help. @soundofthunder: the problem was related to hardware, I didn’t get to install the system. First, I left all default settings, among them formatting with btrfs, and I found out only after a few attempts, that this wasn’t compatible with the old motherboard, which isn’t able to run uefi (at least that is what I derived from the installation logs). Once I had resolved the relating issues (by changing to ext4) the installation went smoothly.
I followed your suggestion to install a new user, though, and there all icons are displayed as expected. However, I wouldn’t know how to transfer the home folder of my wife to the new user without transferring the problem as well. I can’t go folder by folder, I’d rather try to locate the problem within her account.
I guess I’ll just rename some existing config-folders which may be related to this issue (particularly KDE/Plasma) and see what happens. If nothing changes, I can put the old folder in place again and try the next one.
Or do you have another suggestion?
I find it still strange - nothing has changed except the system was installed from the image provided by Manjaro and not the same as there was before the attempted hardware upgrade. Why should that cause such a loss of icons?
For your information, btrfs doesn’t have anything to do with whether the system boots in UEFI mode or in legacy BIOS mode. btrfs is just an advanced type of filesystem with a built-in volume manager. ext4, by comparison, is a more traditional type of filesystem.
As another FYI, there are many different theming aspects to KDE Plasma, i.e…:
the Plasma style, which pertains to the look & feel of the panels and the desktop widgets;
the panel arrangement and pre-population of the task manager with pinned icons;
the window decorations and which window control buttons are located where in the title bar;
the icon set;
the cursor set;
the fonts;
the color scheme;
the application style — whether it’s based upon any of the built-in themes (e.g. Breeze), or whether it’s set via kvantum (which is an SVG-based theme engine); and
the wallpaper.
A global theme is essentially a bundle of all of the above components, complete with a script that arranges the panels and populates the task manager, and in such a way that the whole configuration can be applied in one go. However, nothing prevents you from installing any of the individual components while keeping the rest of your current theme intact, nor does the installation of a global theme force you to change your panel arrangement, wallpaper, and so on.
For that matter, you may also find this interesting…
