[Stable Update] 2023-02-12 - Kernels, OpenSSL, Nvidia, Mesa, LibreOffice 7.5, Pamac, Thunderbird

[jcorporon]

I have the same issue here:

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

After today’s update I can login as normal but there are no desktop icons, and no programs will run. I can’t even open Konsole. Unfortunately I did not run Timeshift before updating this time. Please give me something to try since this is my daily driver.

And here is the solution thanks to @brahma:

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