Hiya,
This had been working fine until I booted my machine this morning. The rest of the application menu seems to work fine. I have searched but couldn’t find anything similar on google or in the forum.
Is there a service or something that populates the search for applications?
I went into Settings and examined the Search settings. Indexing is disabled (I disabled it ages ago because I don’t like it). There’s no other options related like cleaning a cache or anything.
I’ve tried to attach a screenshot but the forum won’t let me paste it.
if your search doesn’t work, please go to a terminal (I hope you have a keyboard shortcut or favourite for that. F12 should open one unless you disabled it.)
type: systemsettings5
type kru
Click KRunner and verify application searching is activated:
I have the same issue on a fresh install of 20.1 on a laptop.
krunner show app searched but not in the KDE menu!
I try the new panel, same result: nothing.
I don’t have the issue on my main desktop system.
Any idea ?
Does this also happen when you create a new user (E.G. Polymere2 and log in there?
P.S. We never got any feed-back from the OP whether any of the above worked, so we might as well have a look into your case. In the future, it’s better to open a new topic, because now only 3 people are reading this: you, mbb and me, whereas a new topic all users will read.
P.P.S. You’re lucky this time because we’re good!
I test the idea of mbb for add an other panel.
But your idea of creating a new user work very well. It solve my issue.
Don’t understand why this fresh install failed on that
I will continue to follow this forum for more solution.
If that worked and you had no errors, remove the documents from your old user:
rm --recursive /home/Polymere/Documents/*
repeat for:
Pictures
Videos
Music
.thunderbird
.mozilla/firefox/
Templates, and everything else that is important to you.
Linux games like Battle of Wesnoth have their game data stored under ~/.local/share/ E.G. ~/.local/share/wesnoth/
After everything has been copied over, disable the old user so you cannot accidentally log on:
usermod --lock Polymere
If you would have theming going on, don’t do everything in one day but do this at the rate of 1 application / theme / whatever per day and if the problem crops up again, roll back your last change
in 1 month delete the entire home directory of your old user, but don’t delete the user itself so that in 6 months time files still owned by that user will still show up under its username.
If you ever migrate to a new machine, just don’t migrate the old user: only the new one.