No Desktop Image After Boot

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Thank you – I did not get any output from the first three lines, the journalctl line gave a bunch of output, and as far as I could see, nothing looked concerning (do you want me to paste any of it?). The last cat line did give some interesting results – mainly with appmenu-gtk-module although that seems to be mostly related to firefox? I don’t personally understand it:

cat ~/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log 
kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/lib/kf5/klauncher'
kdeinit5: Launched KLauncher, pid = 5390, result = 0
kdeinit5: opened connection to :0
kdeinit5: Got SETENV 'GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/keithcdodd/.gtkrc:/home/keithcdodd/.config/gtkrc' from launcher.
kdeinit5: Got SETENV 'GTK2_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:/home/keithcdodd/.gtkrc-2.0:/home/keithcdodd/.config/gtkrc-2.0' from launcher.
kdeinit5: Got SETENV 'XCURSOR_THEME=Sweet-cursors' from launcher.
kdeinit5: Got SETENV 'XCURSOR_SIZE=24' from launcher.
kdeinit5: Got SETENV 'SESSION_MANAGER=local/keith-xps139300:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/5444,unix/keith-xps139300:/tmp/.ICE-unix/5444' from launcher.
kdeinit5: Got EXEC_NEW '/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/desktop.so' from launcher.
kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/desktop.so'
kdeinit5: Got EXEC_NEW '/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/file.so' from launcher.
kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/file.so'
Gtk-Message: 13:07:21.951: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 13:07:22.082: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 13:07:22.416: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"

(firefox:5560): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: 13:07:22.792: /etc/xdg/kde-mimeapps.list contains a [Added Associations] group, but it is not permitted here.  Only the non-desktop-specific mimeapps.list file may add or remove associations.
Gtk-Message: 13:07:23.072: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"
kdeinit5: Got EXEC_NEW '/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/file.so' from launcher.
kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/file.so'
Gtk-Message: 13:07:23.472: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 13:07:23.625: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 13:07:24.081: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 13:07:25.268: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"

(/usr/lib/firefox/firefox:5793): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: 13:07:26.735: /etc/xdg/kde-mimeapps.list contains a [Added Associations] group, but it is not permitted here.  Only the non-desktop-specific mimeapps.list file may add or remove associations.
kdeinit5: Got EXEC_NEW '/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/file.so' from launcher.
kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/file.so'
kdeinit5: Got EXEC_NEW '/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/file.so' from launcher.
kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/file.so'
kdeinit5: Got EXEC_NEW '/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/file.so' from launcher.
kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/file.so'
kdeinit5: Got EXEC_NEW '/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/file.so' from launcher.
kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/file.so'
** Message: 13:07:52.734: updates_checker.vala:119: check updates
** Message: 13:07:56.939: updates_checker.vala:146: 0 updates found
kdeinit5: Got EXEC_NEW '/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/file.so' from launcher.
kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/file.so'
kdeinit5: Got EXEC_NEW '/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/tags.so' from launcher.
kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/tags.so'
kdeinit5: PID 5582 terminated.
kdeinit5: PID 5570 terminated.
kdeinit5: PID 6045 terminated.
kdeinit5: PID 6043 terminated.
kdeinit5: PID 6044 terminated.
kdeinit5: PID 5831 terminated.
kdeinit5: PID 6042 terminated.
kdeinit5: PID 6975 terminated.
Gtk-Message: 13:36:17.069: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 13:36:17.449: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"

(firefox:7559): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: 13:36:17.952: /etc/xdg/kde-mimeapps.list contains a [Added Associations] group, but it is not permitted here.  Only the non-desktop-specific mimeapps.list file may add or remove associations.
Gtk-Message: 13:36:18.203: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 13:36:18.601: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"

(/usr/lib/firefox/firefox:7694): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: 13:36:19.541: /etc/xdg/kde-mimeapps.list contains a [Added Associations] group, but it is not permitted here.  Only the non-desktop-specific mimeapps.list file may add or remove associations.
Gtk-Message: 13:36:24.487: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 13:58:19.043: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"
** Message: 14:07:22.734: updates_checker.vala:119: check updates
** Message: 14:07:27.330: updates_checker.vala:146: 0 updates found
Gtk-Message: 14:38:39.312: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 14:38:39.731: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"

(firefox:11296): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: 14:38:40.189: /etc/xdg/kde-mimeapps.list contains a [Added Associations] group, but it is not permitted here.  Only the non-desktop-specific mimeapps.list file may add or remove associations.
Gtk-Message: 14:38:40.439: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 14:38:40.933: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 14:38:41.635: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 14:38:42.199: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"

(/usr/lib/firefox/firefox:11433): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: 14:38:44.364: /etc/xdg/kde-mimeapps.list contains a [Added Associations] group, but it is not permitted here.  Only the non-desktop-specific mimeapps.list file may add or remove associations.

Also, thank you for the help with permissions!

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I always add a space between dmesg, pipe and grep as the pipe | looks so much like a lowercase l :wink: … in case people type rather than copy/paste. I’d expect to see an error message in this case though. :slight_smile:

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haha, yes I did make that mistake at first, but then I figured it out – although I did not see any output from it. What am I supposed to see from that?

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In this case “no news” should be “good news” so to speak.

I’m still a bit puzzled as to why your background picture isn’t appearing though. Where are you putting the image(s)? Might it be on a drive or partition which gets mounted after bootup i.e. on desktop login? If the location is mounted after the DE starts, this may well explain it.

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The images are coming from the default – so I am not adding images or anything, it is just whereever a default manjaro kde plasma installs them. So it looks like in .local/share and in /usr/share .

That all being said, I figured out a clue that I hope helps figure it out. When I create a new user, the issue does not exist until I download a new global theme that I love (kde sweet) and set to “use desktop from theme.” Then the issues come up (whether or not after that I click “use desktop from theme” off). I have not yet confirmed if this is true for any other theme changes, nor have I confirmed if this only occurs if I click “use desktop from theme” once.

I hope there can be some minor fix from that… because I love the theme, but I want my wallpaper to not just be black or the default manjaro image…

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A shot in the dark (and probably a bit of a kludge) but maybe copy the desired image from the theme & place it where the default Manjaro image is, rename the latter (e.g. add .bak) & then name the imported image to match the default?

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Thanks, sorry I wasn’t clear. It’s not that I like the image from the theme (I don’t think the theme even has a specific wallpaper image), it’s that I liked how it changed my taskbar and such when I did that. That being said, I found a workaround!

I changed global themes to a default (i.e. Breeze) and clicked “use desktop from theme” and then I switched my global theme back to KDE Sweet without clicking “use desktop from theme.” I then manually changed my taskbar to the way I like (the way KDE sweet would normally do if I had clicked “use desktop from theme”). And the wallpaper works as expected now!

Sorry for all the hassle when the issue came from a theme the whole time… will let the creators know. I wish I knew what aspect caused that in the first place but at least I found a workaround! Thank you for the all the help.

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