Super key press makes icons disappear from bottom panel

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Dear community,
I’ve been facing an issue since several updates ago. The issue is not a big deal, but wanted to ask anyway.
I noticed pressing the super key (or windows key) without any other key in conjunction causes some of my pinned icons on panel to disappear. After reboot they are back again. It are always the same which disappear and the same which stay. Icons of open applications are still displayed.
Is it my fault or a bug?
I am currently running Manjaro v25.0.0

Best regards!

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It’s difficult for anyone to guess without more information.

For a start, please provide system information as described (below). It might be a good idea to search the forums; I seem to recall seeing a similar issue only last week.

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With the amount of information you have supplied :man_shrugging:

Are you using Plasma Wayland or X11?

What desktop theme are you using?

What icon theme are you using?

What graphics are you using (Intel, AMD, Nvidia)?

It would be very helpful if, as mentioned by @soundofthunder, you would post the output of:

inxi -zv8

The output of fastfetch may also be useful in this case as it will provide info on the various Plasma desktop & icon themes you are currently using.

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Most likely a custom theme. Custom themes can cause issues after system updates.

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Thanks for your reminders. I also saw posts with similar issues like this one, but none was exactly like this one.

I am using:

  • x11
  • Desktop theme: Breeze Dark
  • Icon theme: Breeze Dark
  • Graphics: AMD
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For a fairly vanilla system running on AMD (though it’s a pretty unspecified AMD - as you didn’t bother with the inxi output as requested) there should be no issues at all.

Breeze Dark is, indeed, a fairly default theme.

With no information - let’s do this:

  1. Create a new user (called ‘test’ password ‘test’)
  2. Log in and see how it looks. If it’s ok, go to 3.
  3. Return to your user, log in and move ~/.config to ~/.configBORKED
  4. Log out, log in and look again. If it’s ok, go to 5
  5. Move back everything (selecting HALF of what you see each time, preferably trying to avoid copying anything which will bring your issue back. The idea is to isolate the bad actor). Each time you move a load, log out/in again and check the issue hasn’t returned.

FWIW just apply Breeze and change the colour scheme if you like it darker. Does Breeze Dark do anything else?

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Thanks for all your helpful advices. I followed the steps proposed by @Ben and reached step 5. The issue was caused by something in this file in the .config directory:
plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc

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