System tray randomly disappear on startup

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Hi everyone. I hope you all had a good year so far

I have a weird issue, and it starts with “sometimes”…
Sometimes, after logging in, I have no desktop, desktop icon or system tray, usually with an all black wallpaper.
Only the windows that were opened when I last shutdown ; Firefox, dolphin and the konsole.
Adding to the weirdness, alt tab works, super+d also shows my the desktop and get the apps back when pressed again but ctrl+t doesn’t bring up another konsole windows WHILE changing the cursor to indicate one is going to open, just like super+e seems to try to open a dolphin window but nothing happens.

I tried to look up issue but I only get “system tray icon not showing” stuff and the answers are application specific…

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide and happy new year

Jules

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Hi
Thank you for you answer, i’ll do that next time it happens and konsole is opened :slight_smile:

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I wonder if the Yakuake drop-down Terminal will still respond? F12 to use it. I believe it’s installed by default on Manjaro KDE.

Otherwise, probably best to just always have a Konsole window open. I do, but that’s because I use it a fair bit. If you can still un-minimize Konsole, even better.

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I usually have one open as I have to type “shutdown” in it, the GUI one shuts down linux but not my computer :slight_smile: (i’ll fix that later…) (back in the saddle after years of windows)

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Sounds like you have session restore enabled. Try disabling it…I’d guess it fixes both problems, but I may be wrong. Either way it’s worth a try.

System Settings → Startup and Shutdown → Desktop Session → Session Restore → Start with an empty session

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See if changing this setting might help (it’s a longshot):

System Settings → Session – Desktop Session → Session Restore:

Change “On login, launch apps that were open” to:

Start with an empty session

Then reboot.

There was a fairly recent issue KDE Plasma hangs on Shutdown, Restart and Logout that might possibly be related – the above was the workaround.

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