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#1 2020-11-23 09:40:33

Problem with Discover (Software Center) KDE Plasma Arch

I am having problems with the Discover program, it doesn’t load the featured tab neither the installed tab, I tried to look for an answer but it didn’t help, the problem that usually people have is that they don’t have packagekit-qt5 installed, I also have these other two dependencies: flatpak and fwupd. I was wondering if you could help me, thanks!

#2 2020-11-23 10:11:56

Re: Problem with Discover (Software Center) KDE Plasma Arch

To see if it’s a problem with packagekit, you could install and run pcurses (TUI packagekit client). If that shows you packages, then it’s a problem with Discover.

#3 2020-11-23 11:01:14

Re: Problem with Discover (Software Center) KDE Plasma Arch

I am too facing same issue. I did below steps to resolve few of the issues:

step 1) open the terminal from your desktop

step 2) switch to root user by running the command

on terminal and then provide the password you assigned during installation.

step 3) run command

step 4) run command

When the system reboots it will automatically boot into tty command mode.

step 1 ) run command

to login as root user

step 2) provide password for the root

step 3) run the command

step 4) run the command

step 5) run the command

The system will reboot now. Wait for the system to boot to login screen. Now login to your desktop and check the discover application.

I am able to view all tabs loaded. But only unable to search for apps. Will post if i find anything further.

#4 2020-11-23 14:34:40

Re: Problem with Discover (Software Center) KDE Plasma Arch

To see if it’s a problem with packagekit, you could install and run pcurses (TUI packagekit client). If that shows you packages, then it’s a problem with Discover.

I did it and it returned all of my installed packages, I think you’re right.

#5 2020-11-23 17:20:03

Re: Problem with Discover (Software Center) KDE Plasma Arch

I am too facing same issue. I did below steps to resolve few of the issues:

step 1) open the terminal from your desktop

step 2) switch to root user by running the command

on terminal and then provide the password you assigned during installation.

step 3) run command

step 4) run command

When the system reboots it will automatically boot into tty command mode.

step 1 ) run command

to login as root user

step 2) provide password for the root

step 3) run the command

step 4) run the command

step 5) run the command

The system will reboot now. Wait for the system to boot to login screen. Now login to your desktop and check the discover application.

I am able to view all tabs loaded. But only unable to search for apps. Will post if i find anything further.

I tried to do that but somehow after installing packagekit-qt5 and rebooting networkmanager stoped working and now i can’t use wifi or ethernet, so here I am on a raspberry pi, wich is pretty funny but also sad, this is the output of

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#1 2019-10-24 08:37:21

[SOLVED] KDE Plasma Discover «Please verify internet connectivity»

Hi, I’ve just installed freshly new arch with kde plasma. Everything went well, but the problem is there is an error displayed on the «Featured» section in Discover. «Unable to load applications. Please verify Internet connectivity». Note that my internet works fine. I’ve installed arch with kde before and everything was okay, then I install on another laptop and this problem appears.

Last edited by iamzimy (2021-01-31 04:31:54)

#2 2019-10-30 07:16:10

Re: [SOLVED] KDE Plasma Discover «Please verify internet connectivity»

Same here i just installed packagekit-qt5
problem solve

I Love Arch Linux

#3 2019-12-17 18:24:36

Re: [SOLVED] KDE Plasma Discover «Please verify internet connectivity»

I have the same problem and packagekit-qt5 is installed. I’ve just reinstalled both packagekit-qt5 and discover but that doesn’t help.
Discover shows all the installed packages and updates whenever I install stuff in pacman but I can’t search in Discover and the home section also shows «Featured — Unable to load applications. Please verify your internet connectivity.»

Wifi is working connected though.

Discover also shows updates and let’s run updates from it’s GUI. Very weird.

Last edited by dderder (2019-12-17 18:26:40)

#4 2020-01-07 09:46:42

Re: [SOLVED] KDE Plasma Discover «Please verify internet connectivity»

I have the same problem! i’ve just done a completely fresh install of Arch and followed the install guide to the letter (as I’ve done a couple times before), but this time Discover shows no results, and the same thing with updates / features page is happening to me too!

This is the output when I run it via console if that helps

#5 2020-01-08 12:43:44

Re: [SOLVED] KDE Plasma Discover «Please verify internet connectivity»

Maybe you could try to create this file: /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/dhcp-client.conf and put this in its content:
[main]
dhcp=dhclient (or dhcpcd)

#6 2020-02-08 03:44:28

Re: [SOLVED] KDE Plasma Discover «Please verify internet connectivity»

Registered an account today just to follow this thread. I am experiencing this same issue on a fresh install I did yesterday. As other users have stated, I also can confirm packagekit-qt5 is installed on my system. Updates work just fine, but I cannot view featured applications.

#7 2020-02-09 01:49:24

Re: [SOLVED] KDE Plasma Discover «Please verify internet connectivity»

I have found a resolution. somewhat. I decided to install the kde-applications package group to see what it had to offer. It is a bit bloated, however, and adds more than 150 packages to the system.

So, if you look through the packages within the package group on Arch’s website, you’ll probably find what you need to get discover working as expected. Unfortunately I don’t know which package (or packages) it was because I installed everything.

#8 2020-04-20 17:21:32

Re: [SOLVED] KDE Plasma Discover «Please verify internet connectivity»

I was having the exact same problem and I gave up; however (when I wasn’t looking for it) I found the solution (at least in my setup) in a youtube video. just have to re-install the «appstream» package, which «appstream-qt» is dependent on, which «discover» is dependent on

#9 2020-07-06 20:25:11

Re: [SOLVED] KDE Plasma Discover «Please verify internet connectivity»

I was fetching the same problem after a fresh install of KDE plasma. After a lot of digging in, I found the solution, but I don’t know which package is specifically solving the problem. In the first hand install or reinstall the packagekit and packagekit-qt5. See if that solves the problem. If not, try install or reinstall the appstream and appstream-qt package. See if that solves the problem. Remember you need to restart your system after install or reinstalling these package.

That should fix the problem, And yet if the problem is not fixed, just install the whole ‘plasma’ group and ‘kde-applications’. This will definitely fix the issue.

Last edited by enigmatic_jihad (2020-07-06 20:25:53)

#10 2021-07-23 18:50:16

Re: [SOLVED] KDE Plasma Discover «Please verify internet connectivity»

I actually found the correct solution to the above problem. installing none of the packages worked for me (But still, install them to clear any dependencies). What actually worked for me was installing the apper package of kde, its a software manager, which is required for plasma-discover to work properly. Hope this helps

#11 2021-08-22 04:07:42

Re: [SOLVED] KDE Plasma Discover «Please verify internet connectivity»

I was having the exact same problem and I gave up; however (when I wasn’t looking for it) I found the solution (at least in my setup) in a youtube video. just have to re-install the «appstream» package, which «appstream-qt» is dependent on, which «discover» is dependent on

this resolved the issue on my machine

#12 2021-08-24 12:52:19

Re: [SOLVED] KDE Plasma Discover «Please verify internet connectivity»

Just wanted to note for anyone still having this issue that it can be caused by adding an OpenDesktop.org account to KDE Online Accounts. The only solution I know of is to not use the OpenDesktop.org accounts in KDE Online Accounts.

#13 2021-08-25 03:34:32

Re: [SOLVED] KDE Plasma Discover «Please verify internet connectivity»

I It is a bit bloated, however, and adds more than 150 packages to the system.

So, if you look through the packages within the package group on Arch’s website, you’ll probably find what you need to get discover working as expected. Unfortunately I don’t know which package (or packages) it was because I installed everything.

Last edited by Superadmin (2021-08-28 03:50:00)

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Kde discover arch linux

KDE is a software project currently comprising a desktop environment known as Plasma, a collection of libraries and frameworks (KDE Frameworks) and several applications (KDE Applications) as well. KDE upstream has a well maintained UserBase wiki. Detailed information about most KDE applications can be found there.

Contents

Installation

Plasma

Before installing Plasma, make sure you have a working Xorg installation on your system.

Install the plasma-meta meta-package or the plasma group. For differences between plasma-meta and plasma reference Package group. Alternatively, for a more minimal Plasma installation, install the plasma-desktop package.

To enable support for Wayland in Plasma, also install the plasma-wayland-session package. If you are an NVIDIA user, also install egl-wayland , and if the session does not start with the proprietary nvidia driver, also enable the DRM kernel mode setting. If that does not work, too, check the instructions on the KDE wiki.

KDE applications

To install the full set of KDE Applications, install the kde-applications group or the kde-applications-meta meta-package. If you only want KDE applications for a certain category such as games or education, install the relevant dependency of kde-applications-meta . Note that this will only install applications, it will not install any version of Plasma.

Unstable releases

Starting Plasma

Plasma can be started either using a display manager, or from the console.

Using a display manager

• Select Plasma (X11) to launch a new session in Xorg.
• Select Plasma (Wayland) to launch a new session in Wayland.

From the console

• To start Plasma with xinit/startx, append export DESKTOP_SESSION=plasma and exec startplasma-x11 to your .xinitrc file. If you want to start Xorg at login, please see Start X at login.
• To start a Plasma on Wayland session from a console, run XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland .[1]

Configuration

Most settings for KDE applications are stored in

/.config/ . However, configuring KDE is primarily done through the System Settings application. It can be started from a terminal by executing systemsettings5 .

Personalization

Plasma desktop

Themes

Plasma themes define the look of panels and Plasma widgets. For easy system-wide installation, some themes are available in both the official repositories and the AUR.

Plasma themes can also be installed through System Settings > Global Theme > Get New Global Themes. .

The KDE Store offers more Plasma customizations, like SDDM themes and splash-screens.

GTK application appearance

The recommended theme for a pleasant appearance in GTK applications is breeze-gtk , a GTK theme designed to mimic the appearance of Plasma’s Breeze theme. Install kde-gtk-config (part of the plasma group) and select Breeze as the GTK theme in System Settings > Application Style > Configure GNOME/GTK Application Style. .

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In some themes, tooltips in GTK applications have white text on white backgrounds making it difficult to read. To change the colors in GTK2 applications, find the section for tooltips in the .gtkrc-2.0 file and change it. For GTK3 application two files need to be changed, gtk.css and settings.ini .

Some GTK2 programs like vuescan-bin AUR still look hardly usable due to invisible checkboxes with the Breeze or Adwaita skin in a Plasma session. To workaround this, install and select e.g. the Numix-Frost-Light skin of the numix-frost-themes AUR under System Settings > Application Style > Configure GNOME/GTK Application Style. > GTK2 theme:. Numix-Frost-Light looks similar to Breeze.

Faces

Plasma and SDDM will both use images found at /var/lib/AccountsService/icons/ as users’ avatars. To configure with a graphical interface, you can use System Settings > Users, which may first need to be installed (see the plasma-desktop package). The file corresponding to your username can be removed to restore the default avatar.

Widgets

Plasmoids are little scripted (plasmoid scripts) or coded (plasmoid binaries) KDE applications designed to enhance the functionality of your desktop.

The easiest way to install plasmoid scripts is by right-clicking onto a panel or the desktop and choosing Add Widgets > Get New Widgets. > Download New Plasma Widgets. This will present a nice frontend for https://store.kde.org/ that allows you to install, uninstall, or update third-party plasmoid scripts with literally just one click.

Many Plasmoid binaries are available from the AUR.

Sound applet in the system tray

Install plasma-pa or kmix (start Kmix from the Application Launcher). plasma-pa is now installed by default with plasma , no further configuration needed.

Disable panel shadow

As the Plasma panel is on top of other windows, its shadow is drawn over them. [2] To disable this behaviour without impacting other shadows, install xorg-xprop and run:

then select the panel with the plus-sized cursor. [3] For automation, install xorg-xwininfo and create the following script:

Set execution permissions for the script:

The script can be run on login with Add Script in Autostart:

Display scaling / High DPI displays

Window decorations

Window decorations can be changed in System Settings > Application Style > Window Decorations.

There you can also directly download and install more themes with one click, and some are available in the AUR.

Icon themes

Icon themes can be installed and changed on System Settings > Icons.

Space efficiency

The Plasma Netbook shell has been dropped from Plasma 5, see the following KDE forum post. However, you can achieve something similar by editing the file

/.config/kwinrc adding BorderlessMaximizedWindows=true in the [Windows] section.

Thumbnail generation

To allow thumbnail generation for media or document files on the desktop and in Dolphin, install kdegraphics-thumbnailers and ffmpegthumbs .

Then enable the thumbnail categories for the desktop via right click on the desktop background > Configure Desktop > Icons > Configure Preview Plugins. .

In Dolphin, navigate to Control > Configure Dolphin. > General > Previews.

Night Color

Plasma provides a Redshift-like feature (working on both Xorg and Wayland) called Night Color. It makes the colors on the screen warmer to reduce eye strain at the time of your choosing. It can be enabled in System Settings > Display and Monitor > Night Color.

Printing

You can also configure printers in System Settings > Printers. To use this method, you must first install the following packages print-manager , cups , system-config-printer . See CUPS#Configuration.

Samba/Windows support

If you want to have access to Windows services, install Samba (package samba ).

The Dolphin share functionality requires the package kdenetwork-filesharing and usershares, which the stock smb.conf does not have enabled. Instructions to add them are in Samba#Enable Usershares, after which sharing in Dolphin should work out of the box after restarting Samba.

Unlike GTK file browsers which utilize GVfs also for the launched program, opening files from Samba shares in Dolphin via KIO makes Plasma copy the whole file to the local system first with most programs (VLC is an exception). To workaround this, you can use a GTK based file browser like thunar with gvfs and gvfs-smb (and gnome-keyring for saving login credentials) to access SMB shares in a more able way.

Another possibility is to mount a Samba share via cifs-utils to make it look to Plasma like if the SMB share was just a normal local folder and thus can be accessed normally. See Samba#Manual mounting and Samba#Automatic mounting.

An GUI solution is available with samba-mounter-git AUR , which offers basically the same functionality via an easy to use option located at System Settings > Network Drivers. However, it might break with new KDE Plasma versions.

KDE Desktop activities

KDE Desktop Activities are special workspaces where you can select specific settings for each activity that apply only when you are using said activity.

Power management

Install powerdevil for an integrated Plasma power managing service. This service offers additional power saving features, monitor brightness control (if supported) and battery reporting including peripheral devices.

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Autostart

Plasma can autostart applications and run scripts on startup and shutdown. To autostart an application, navigate to System Settings > Startup and Shutdown > Autostart and add the program or shell script of your choice. For applications, a .desktop file will be created, for login scripts, a .desktop file launching the script will be created.

• Place Desktop entries (i.e. .desktop files) in the appropriate XDG Autostart directory.
• Place or symlink shell scripts in one of the following directories:

/.config/plasma-workspace/env/ for executing scripts at login before launching Plasma.

/.config/plasma-workspace/shutdown/ for executing scripts when Plasma exits.

Phonon

Phonon is the multimedia API provided by KDE and is the standard abstraction for handling multimedia streams within KDE software and also used by several Qt applications. Phonon was originally created to allow KDE and Qt software to be independent of any single multimedia framework such as GStreamer or xine and to provide a stable API for a major version’s lifetime.

Phonon is being widely used within KDE, for both audio (e.g., the System notifications or KDE audio apps) and video (e.g., the Dolphin video thumbnails).

Which backend should I choose?

You can choose between backends based on GStreamer and VLC – each available in versions for Qt4 applications and Qt5 applications ( phonon-qt4-gstreamer AUR , phonon-qt5-gstreamer – phonon-qt4-vlc AUR , phonon-qt5-vlc ).

Upstream prefers VLC but prominent Linux distributions (Kubuntu and Fedora-KDE for example) prefer GStreamer because that allows them to easily leave out patented MPEG codecs from the default installation. Both backends have a slightly different features set. The Gstreamer backend has some optional codec dependency, install them as needed:

• gst-libav — Libav codecs.
• gst-plugins-good — PulseAudio support and additional codecs.
• gst-plugins-ugly — additional codecs.
• gst-plugins-bad — additional codecs.

In the past other backends were developed as well but are no longer maintained and their AUR packages have been deleted.

Backup and restore

KDE Plasma 5 stores personalized desktop settings as configuration files in the XDG_CONFIG_HOME folder. Use the detail of configuration files to select and choose a method of backup and restore.

systemd startup

Plasma has introduced an optional new startup method which uses a systemd user instance to launch and manage all the Plasma services instead of the boot scripts. Currently this is off by default but can be enabled with the following command:

To confirm the boot worked correctly you can run:

More details about the implementation can be read in Edmundson’s blog: plasma and the systemd startup.

Spell checking

KDE applications use sonnet for spell checking. See its optional dependencies for the supported spell checkers.

Configure it in System Settings > Regional Settings > Spell Check.

Running kwin wayland on NVIDIA

Applications

The KDE project provides a suite of applications that integrate with the Plasma desktop. See the kde-applications group for a full listing of the available applications. Also see Category:KDE for related KDE application pages.

Aside from the programs provided in KDE Applications, there are many other applications available that can complement the Plasma desktop. Some of these are discussed below.

System administration

Terminate Xorg server through KDE System Settings

Navigate to the submenu System Settings > Input Devices > Keyboard > Advanced (tab) > «Key Sequence to kill the X server» and ensure that the checkbox is ticked.

KCM stands for KConfig Module. KCMs can help you configure your system by providing interfaces in System Settings, or through the command line with kcmshell5.

More KCMs can be found at linux-apps.com.

Desktop search

KDE implements desktop search with a software called Baloo, a file indexing and searching solution.

Web browsers

The following web browsers can integrate with Plasma:

• Konqueror — Part of the KDE project, supports two rendering engines – KHTML and the Chromium-based Qt WebEngine.

https://konqueror.org/ || konqueror

• Falkon — A Qt web browser with Plasma integration features, previously known as Qupzilla. It uses Qt WebEngine.

https://userbase.kde.org/Falkon/ || falkon

• Chromium — Chromium and its proprietary variant Google Chrome have limited Plasma integration. They can use KWallet and KDE Open/Save windows.

https://www.chromium.org/ || chromium

• Firefox — Firefox can be configured to better integrate with Plasma. See Firefox#KDE integration for details.

https://mozilla.org/firefox || firefox

KDE offers its own stack for personal information management (PIM). This includes emails, contacts, calendar, etc. To install all the PIM packages, you could use the kdepim package group or the kde-pim-meta meta package.

Akonadi

Akonadi is a system meant to act as a local cache for PIM data, regardless of its origin, which can be then used by other applications. This includes the user’s emails, contacts, calendars, events, journals, alarms, notes, and so on. Akonadi does not store any data by itself: the storage format depends on the nature of the data (for example, contacts may be stored in vCard format).

Install akonadi . For additional addons, install kdepim-addons .

MySQL

By default Akonadi will use /usr/bin/mysqld (MariaDB by default, see MySQL for alternative providers) to run a managed MySQL instance with the database stored in

System-wide MySQL instance

Akonadi supports using the system-wide MySQL for its database.[6]

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PostgreSQL

Akonadi supports either using the existing system-wide PostgreSQL instance, i.e. postgresql.service , or running a PostgreSQL instance with user privileges and the database in

Per-user PostgreSQL instance

Edit Akonadi configuration file so that it has the following contents:

Start Akonadi with akonadictl start , and check its status: akonadictl status .

/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/ will get automatically upgraded when a major PostgreSQL version upgrade is detected.

For previous akonadi versions major PostgreSQL version upgrades will require a manual database upgrade. Follow the update instructions on KDE UserBase Wiki. Make sure to adjust the paths to PostgreSQL binaries to those used by postgresql and postgresql-old-upgrade , see PostgreSQL#Upgrading PostgreSQL.

System-wide PostgreSQL instance

This requires an already configured and running PostgreSQL.

Create a PostgreSQL user account for your user:

Create a database for Akonadi:

Configure Akonadi to use the system-wide PostgreSQL:

Start Akonadi with akonadictl start , and check its status: akonadictl status .

SQLite

To use SQLite edit Akonadi configuration file to match the configuration below:

Disabling Akonadi

KDE Telepathy

KDE Telepathy is a project with the goal to closely integrate Instant Messaging with the KDE desktop. It utilizes the Telepathy framework as a backend and is intended to replace Kopete.

To install all Telepathy protocols, install the telepathy group. To use the KDE Telepathy client, install the telepathy-kde-meta package that includes all the packages contained in the telepathy-kde group.

Use Telegram with KDE Telepathy

Telegram protocol is available using telepathy-haze , installing telegram-purple AUR or telegram-purple-git AUR and telepathy-morse-git AUR . The username is the Telegram account telephone number (complete with the national prefix +xx , e.g. +49 for Germany).

The configuration through the GUI may be tricky: if the phone number is not accepted when configuring a new account in the KDE Telepathy client (with an error message complaining about an invalid parameter which prevents the account creation), insert it between single quotes and then remove the quotes manually from the configuration file (

/.local/share/telepathy/mission-control/accounts.cfg ) after the account creation (if the quotes are not removed after, an authentication error should rise).

KDE Connect

KDE Connect provides several features to connect your Android phone with your Linux desktop:

• Share files and URLs to/from KDE from/to any app, without wires.
• Touchpad emulation: Use your phone screen as your computer’s touchpad.
• Notifications sync (4.3+): Read your Android notifications from the desktop.
• Shared clipboard: copy and paste between your phone and your computer.
• Multimedia remote control: Use your phone as a remote for Linux media players.
• WiFi connection: no usb wire or bluetooth needed.
• RSA Encryption: your information is safe.

You will need to install KDE Connect both on your computer and on your Android. For PC side, install kdeconnect package. For Android side, install KDE Connect from Google Play or from F-Droid. If you want to browse your phone’s filesystem, you need to install sshfs as well and configure filesystem exposes in your Android app.

It is possible to use KDE Connect even if you do not use the Plasma desktop. For desktop environments that use AppIndicators, such as Unity, install indicator-kdeconnect AUR package as well. For GNOME users, better integration can be achieved by installing gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect AUR instead of kdeconnect . To start the KDE Connect daemon manually, execute /usr/lib/kdeconnectd .

If you use a firewall, you need to open UDP and TCP ports 1714 through 1764 .

Sometimes, KDE Connect will not detect a phone. You can restart the services by running killall kdeconnectd and then opening kdeconnect in system settings or running kdeconnect-cli —refresh followed by kdeconnect-cli -l .

Tips and tricks

Use a different window manager

The component chooser settings in Plasma does not allow changing the window manager anymore. [7] In order to change the window manager used you need to set the KDEWM environment variable before KDE startup. The instructions are available on the KDE UserBase Wiki—Tutorials/Using Other Window Managers with Plasma.

KDE/Openbox session

The openbox package provides a session for using KDE with Openbox. To make use of this session, select KDE/Openbox from the display manager menu.

For those starting the session manually, add the following line to your xinit configuration:

Re-enabling compositing effects

When replacing Kwin with a window manager which does not provide a Compositor (such as Openbox), any desktop compositing effects e.g. transparency will be lost. In this case, install and run a separate Composite manager to provide the effects such as Xcompmgr or Compton.

Configuring monitor resolution / multiple monitors

To enable display resolution management and multiple monitors in Plasma, install kscreen . This provides additional options to System Settings > Display and Monitor.

KWin-lowlatency

KWin-lowlatency is a attempt to reduce latency and stuttering in the popular KWin compositor, and is available as kwin-lowlatency AUR .

Configuring ICC profiles

To enable ICC profiles in Plasma, install colord-kde . This provides additional options to System Settings > Color Corrections.

ICC profiles can be imported using Add Profile.

Disable opening application launcher with Super key (Windows key)

To disable this feature you currently can run the following command:

Disable bookmarks showing in application menu

With Plasma Browser integration installed, KDE will show bookmarks in the application launcher.

To disable this feature you currently can run the following commands:

IBus Integration

IBus is an input method framework and can be integrated into KDE. See IBus#Integration for details.

Using IBus may be required when using KDE on Wayland to offer accented characters and dead keys support [8].

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Restore previous saved session

If you have System Settings > Startup and Shutdown > Desktop Session > When logging in: Restore previous saved session (default) selected, ksmserver (KDE’s session manager) will automatically save/load all open applications to/from

/.config/ksmserverrc on logout/login.

Receive local mail in KMail

If you have set up local mail delivery with a mail server that uses the Maildir format, you may want to receive this mail in KMail. To do so, you can re-use KMail’s default receiving account «Local Folders» that stores mail in

/Maildir directory (where Maildir format mail is commonly delivered) to the Local Folders’ inbox:

Alternatively, add a new receiving account with the type Maildir and set

/Maildir as its directory.

Configure Plasma for all users

Edit config/main.xml files in the /usr/share/plasma . For example, to configure the Application Launcher for all users, edit /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.kickoff/contents/config/main.xml . To prevent the files from being overwritten with package updates, add the files to Pacman’s NoUpgrade

Troubleshooting

qt5ct and kvantum bugs after upgrade

Latest update might cause incompatible hidpi scaling that made some plasma UI becomes too big for your screen, some icons are missing/cant be displayed, and missing plasma panel/widget.

Try to remove qt5ct and kvantum related package then apply default global plasma theme. if the problem persists, try clear all your kde config and reinstall overwrite plasma package. Be sure to check hidpi scaling in KDE system settings as well.

Fonts

Fonts in a Plasma session look poor

Try installing the ttf-dejavu and ttf-liberation packages.

After the installation, be sure to log out and back in. You should not have to modify anything in System Settings > Fonts. If you are using qt5ct , the settings in Qt5 Configuration Tool may override the font settings in System Settings.

If you have personally set up how your Fonts render, be aware that System Settings may alter their appearance. When you go System Settings > Fonts System Settings will likely alter your font configuration file ( fonts.conf ).

There is no way to prevent this, but, if you set the values to match your fonts.conf file, the expected font rendering will return (it will require you to restart your application or in a few cases restart your desktop). Note that Gnome’s Font Preferences also does this.

Fonts are huge or seem disproportional

Try to force font DPI to 96 in System Settings > Fonts.

If that does not work, try setting the DPI directly in your Xorg configuration as documented in Xorg#Setting DPI manually.

Configuration related

Many problems in KDE are related to its configuration.

Plasma desktop behaves strangely

Plasma problems are usually caused by unstable Plasma widgets (colloquially called plasmoids) or Plasma themes. First, find which was the last widget or theme you had installed and disable or uninstall it.

So, if your desktop suddenly exhibits «locking up», this is likely caused by a faulty installed widget. If you cannot remember which widget you installed before the problem began (sometimes it can be an irregular problem), try to track it down by removing each widget until the problem ceases. Then you can uninstall the widget, and file a bug report on the KDE bug tracker only if it is an official widget. If it is not, it is recommended to find the entry on the KDE Store and inform the developer of that widget about the problem (detailing steps to reproduce, etc.).

If you cannot find the problem, but you do not want all the settings to be lost, navigate to

/.config/ and run the following command:

This command will rename all Plasma related configuration files to *.bak (e.g. plasmarc.bak ) of your user and when you will relogin into Plasma, you will have the default settings back. To undo that action, remove the .bak file extension. If you already have *.bak files, rename, move, or delete them first. It is highly recommended that you create regular backups anyway. See Synchronization and backup programs for a list of possible solutions.

Clean cache to resolve upgrade problems

The problem may be caused by old cache. Sometimes, after an upgrade, the old cache might introduce strange, hard to debug behaviour such as unkillable shells, hangs when changing various settings, Ark being unable to extract archives or Amarok not recognizing any of your music. This solution can also resolve problems with KDE and Qt applications looking bad after an update.

Rebuild the cache using the following commands:

Optionally, empty the

/.cache/ folder contents, however, this will also clear the cache of other applications:

Plasma desktop does not respect locale/language settings

Plasma desktop may use different settings than you set at KDE System Settings panel, or in locale.conf (per Locale#Variables). First thing to do is log out and log in after removing

/.config/plasma-localerc , if this does not fix the issue, try to edit the file manually. For example, to set LANG variable to es_ES.UTF-8 and the LC_MESSAGES variable to en_US.UTF-8 :

Cannot change theme, icons, fonts, colors in systemsettings; most icons are not displayed

Make sure that QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME environment variable is unset, the command printenv QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME should show empty output. Otherwise if you had an environment set (most likely qt5ct) the variable will force qt5ct settings upon Qt applications, the command export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME= should unset the environment.

Volume control, notifications or multimedia keys do not work

Hiding certain items in the System Tray settings (e.g. Audio Volume, Media Player or Notifications) also disables related features. Hiding the Audio Volume disables volume control keys, Media Player disables multimedia keys (rewind, stop, pause) and hiding Notifications disables showing notifications.

Login Screen KCM does not sync cursor settings to SDDM

The Login Screen KCM reads your cursor settings from

/.config/kcminputrc , without this file no settings are synced. The easiest way to generate this file is to change your cursor theme in System Settings > Cursors, then change it back to your preferred cursor theme.

Missing panels/widgets

A crash or hardware change can modify the screen numbers, even on a single monitor setup. The panels/widgets can be missing after such an event, this can be fix in the

/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc file by changing the lastScreen values.

Graphical problems

Make sure you have the proper driver for your GPU installed. See Xorg#Driver installation for more information. If you have an older card, it might help to #Disable desktop effects manually or automatically for defined applications or #Disable compositing.

Getting current state of KWin for support and debug purposes

This command prints out a summary of the current state of KWin including used options, used compositing backend and relevant OpenGL driver capabilities. See more on Martin’s blog.

Disable desktop effects manually or automatically for defined applications

Plasma has desktop effects enabled by default and e.g. not every game will disable them automatically. You can disable desktop effects in System Settings > Desktop Behavior > Desktop Effects and you can toggle desktop effects with Alt+Shift+F12 .

Additionally, you can create custom KWin rules to automatically disable/enable compositing when a certain application/window starts under System Settings > Window Management > Window Rules.

Enable transparency

If you use a transparent background without enabling the compositor, you will get the message:

In System Settings > Display and Monitor > Compositor, check Enable compositor on startup and restart Plasma.

Disable compositing

In System Settings > Display and Monitor > Compositor, uncheck Enable compositor on startup and restart Plasma.

Flickering in fullscreen when compositing is enabled

In System Settings > Display and Monitor > Compositor, uncheck Allow applications to block compositing. This may harm performance.

Screen tearing with NVIDIA

Plasma cursor sometimes shown incorrectly

Create the directory

/.icons/default and inside a file named index.theme with the following contents:

Execute the following command:

Cursor jerking/flicking when changing roles (e.g., when mousing over hyperlinks)

Try installing the appropriate 2D acceleration driver for your system and window manager.

Unusable screen resolution set

Your local configuration settings for kscreen can override those set in xorg.conf . Look for kscreen configuration files in

/.local/share/kscreen/ and check if mode is being set to a resolution that is not supported by your monitor.

Blurry icons in system tray

In order to add icons to tray, applications often make use of the library appindicator. If your icons are blurry, check which version of libappindicator you have installed. If you only have libappindicator-gtk2 installed, you can install libappindicator-gtk3 as an attempt to get clear icons.

Cannot change screen resolution when running in a virtual machine

When running Plasma in a VMware, VirtualBox or QEMU virtual machine, kscreen may not allow changing the guest’s screen resolution to a resolution higher than 800×600.

The workaround is to set the PreferredMode option in xorg.conf.d(5) . Alternatively try using a different graphics adapter in the VM, e.g. VBoxSVGA instead of VMSVGA for VirtualBox and Virtio instead of QXL for QEMU. See KDE Bug 407058 for details.

Dolphin, Kate, etc. stuck long time when opening

Check whether your user directories ( Documents , Downloads , etc.) are read-only.

Sound problems

No sound after suspend

If there is no sound after suspending and if KMix does not show audio devices which should be there, restarting plasmashell and pulseaudio may help:

Some applications may also need to be restarted in order for sound to play from them again.

MP3 files cannot be played when using the GStreamer Phonon backend

This can be solved by installing the GStreamer libav plugin (package gst-libav ). If you still encounter problems, you can try changing the Phonon backend used by installing another such as phonon-qt4-vlc AUR or phonon-qt5-vlc .

Then, make sure the backend is preferred via System Settings > Multimedia > Audio and Video > Backend.

Power management

No Suspend/Hibernate options

If your system is able to suspend or hibernate using systemd but do not have these options shown in KDE, make sure powerdevil is installed.

KMail

Clean Akonadi configuration to fix KMail

See [9] for details.

If you want a backup, copy the following configuration directories:

Empty IMAP inbox in KMail

For some IMAP accounts KMail will show the inbox as a top-level container (so it will not be possible to read messages there) with all other folders of this account inside.[10]. To solve this problem simply disable the server-side subscriptions in the KMail account settings.

Authorization error for EWS account in KMail

While setting up EWS account in KMail, you may keep getting errors about failed authorization even for valid and fully working credentials. This is likely caused by broken communication between KWallet and KMail. To workaround the issue set a passsword via qdbus:

Aggressive QXcbConnection journal logging

KF5/Qt 5 applications do not display icons in i3/FVWM/awesome

Problems with saving credentials and persistently occurring KWallet dialogs

It is not recommended to turn off the KWallet password saving system in the user settings as it is required to save encrypted credentials like WiFi passphrases for each user. Persistently occuring KWallet dialogs can be the consequence of turning it off.

In case you find the dialogs to unlock the wallet annoying when applications want to access it, you can let the display managers SDDM and LightDM unlock the wallet at login automatically, see KDE Wallet#Unlock KDE Wallet automatically on login. The first wallet needs to be generated by KWallet (and not user-generated) in order to be usable for system program credentials.

In case you want the wallet credentials not to be opened in memory for every application, you can restrict applications from accessing it with kwalletmanager in the KWallet settings.

If you do not care for credential encryption at all, you can simply leave the password forms blank when KWallet asks for the password while creating a wallet. In this case, applications can access passwords without having to unlock the wallet first.

Discover does not show any applications

This can be solved by installing packagekit-qt5 .

High CPU usage of kscreenlocker_greet with NVIDIA drivers

As described in KDE Bug 347772 NVIDIA OpenGL drivers and QML may not play well together with Qt 5. This may lead kscreenlocker_greet to high CPU usage after unlocking the session. To work around this issue, set the QSG_RENDERER_LOOP environment variable to basic .

Then kill previous instances of the greeter with killall kscreenlocker_greet .

OS error 22 when running Akonadi on ZFS

If your home directory is on a ZFS pool, create a

/.config/akonadi/mysql-local.conf file with the following contents:

Some programs are unable to scroll when their windows are inactive

This is caused by the problematic way of GTK3 handling mouse scroll events. A workaround for this is to set environment variable GDK_CORE_DEVICE_EVENTS=1 . However, this workaround also breaks touchpad smooth scrolling and touchscreen scrolling.

TeamViewer behaves slowly

When using TeamViewer, it may behave slowly if you use smooth animations (such as windows minimizing). See #Disable compositing as a workaround.

Kmail, Kontact and Wayland

Kmail may become unresponsive, show a black messageviewer or similar, often after having been minimized and restored. A workaround may be to set environment variable QT_QPA_PLATFORM=»xcb;wayland» . See KDE Bug 397825.

Unlock widgets (Plasma ≥ 5.18)

If you previously locked your widgets, you will probably find yourself unable to unlock them again. You just have to run this command to do so:

The new Customize Layout does not require to lock them back up but if want to do that:

KIO opens URLs with error programs

This article or section needs language, wiki syntax or style improvements. See Help:Style for reference.

KIO had cached webpages and will try use cached files. Check file associations regarding html, php, etc. and change it to a browser. KIO’s cache files are located in $HOME/.cache/kioexec . See also xdg-utils#URL scheme handlers.

Custom Shortcuts tab is missing under Shortcuts in System Settings

This is due to the khotkeys package being missing. After installation, a restart of the System Settings application may be necessary to apply the changes.

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