Screen settings disappear after reboot

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I do have an dual-screen setup.
Since last manjaro update, I have the issue, that KDE starts with “mirrored Screens” instead of “side-by-side Screens”.

I have to change the setting after each reboot.

Setup:
Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.94.0
Qt Version: 5.15.4
Kernel Version: 5.15.48-1-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-3610QM CPU @ 2.30GHz
Memory: 15.1 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 4000

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And additional issue: The Tray don’t show any Icons anymore for some Applications.
For Example, Linphone, Discord, Keepassxc… they all (and more) where in my little Sidebar, if started in the background.

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They are all gone!

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create a new user and test with it

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Ok, I did that, and the Tray-Icon issue doesn’t appear there.
@brahma how can I “partially” reset my profile, to get it back to work?

I mean, I don’t want to lost all my settings I’ve made over all the last years. Do you have a clue which file are responsible for this “x11” issue?

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i have no idea what conf is responsible for this…
try this:
rm -rf ~/.cache/*
rm ~/.config/Trolltech.conf
kbuildsycoca5 --noincremental
reboot and see if that helped

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Ok, thank’s I’ll try this.
But at the last command I got this:

kbuildsycoca5 --noincremental
kbuildsycoca5 running...
qt.core.logging: Ignoring malformed logging rule: '’*=false’'
kf.config.core: "KConfigIni: In file /home/pc/.local/share/applications/brave-browser.desktop, line 128: " Invalid entry (missing '=')
kf.service.sycoca: The menu spec file ( "" ) contains a Layout or DefaultLayout tag without the mandatory Merge tag inside. Please fix it.
kf.service.sycoca: The menu spec file ( "" ) contains a Layout or DefaultLayout tag without the mandatory Merge tag inside. Please fix it.
kf.service.sycoca: The menu spec file ( "" ) contains a Layout or DefaultLayout tag without the mandatory Merge tag inside. Please fix it.
kf.service.sycoca: Service type not found: "text/.htaccess"

Is that ok, or have I to fix something here?

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ignore it, reboot and see if it helped

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Ok, After reboot, the dual-screen work like expected again. Thanks for this hint. :+1:

But the Applications (like linphone, keepassxc, etc.) still not appear in the Tray (as Icons).
And keepassxc is incredible slow (1> minute for each action)

I guess, that there might also be something wrong with some plasma / kde configs?

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you could rename the .config folder in home to .config.bak, then reboot and see if that helped, but i would try first resetting plasma settings, so should we do that first?

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I’ve rebooted again, and now the split-screen doesn’t work again :confused:
That’s really strange.

How can I reset Plasma?

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so you didnt rename the config folder?

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Not yet, as you said, that you would first reset plasma.

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good, so try resetting plasma, its a little complicated:
• Log out of the GUI.
• Switch to a tty with Ctrl+Alt+F2.
• Log in as the user with the problem.
• Issue the following command:
find $HOME/.config/ -maxdepth 1 -name 'plasma*' -exec rm {} \;
reboot:
systemctl reboot
and pay attention to the resseting command, take a picture of it with your phone

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@brahma Removing plasma-stuff wasn’t the solution, so I’ve renamed .config and now I try to copy all stuff I need - step by step over to the new Config-File.
Will be a bunch of work, but will see if it’s work.

I drop you a note if done.

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And renaming the config, rebooting did help?

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@brahma yes, that helps. I think there is something messed up with kwin in any way.
Couldn’t figure out what exactly it was, but anyway… a chance to cleanup the ~/.config a bit :stuck_out_tongue:

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