How do I reset plasma 6 to defaults?
How do I reset plasma 6 to defaults?
I have recently upgraded to Plasma 6. It's has been riddled with issues. One major issue is that when I let the PC sit for a while, the screen turns off (as it should), then the pc just either freezes indefinitely, or wakes up, but nothing is responsive. I can't even enter my password to log in. For now, I have disabled auto suspend and turn off screen and all that. I suspend it manually when I am done working. I really don't want to reinstall, as I have had this set up for over a year and I will need to do a ton of work to get it back working. I do have root and home partitions separated, and I can reinstall, but if I absolutely had to. Is there anything I can do to remove all of plasma 5 leftover things without breaking things? Is there such thing as resetting plasma to its defaults without reinstalling? PS. I have submitted several bug reports and I will get back at it when I have time
Operating System: EndeavourOS KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.0.0 Qt Version: 6.6.2 Kernel Version: 6.8.1-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with Radeon Graphics Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 580 Series Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Product Name: A520I AC System Version: -CF
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In the /home directory, there should be a hidden directory called .kde which mostly contains KDE settings for your user. Rename it and check. A new one might get created with default settings during next login.
Caution: I am no expert and consider all backup options before doing this because it may force you to re-install.
Edit 1: based on additional searching due to comment below, it was ~/.config for KDE 5. I have no idea of what it is for KDE 6. May be you will have to go through source code to find.
KDE hasn't used ~/.kde since KDE 4 iirc.
Then what does it actually use? Is there a way to help the person asking the question?
It's unfortunately a bit of a mess. There's all kinds of files for different KDE applications in
~/.config/, with no common folder for all of them...
many apps use ~/.config, if you rename that you will also remove settings for those apps
Is ~/config only for KDE or does any other application use it to save configuration files?
It's the standard location for all apps (actually it can be overridden by environment variables and ~/.config is the default value). However like many things in the Linux world it's not enforced. Some apps (especially console utilities) don't respect it but most use it.
@voracread I think ~/.config is the standard config file location on Linux (for apps that follow XDG standards) so it should also have config files for non-kde apps
So that rules out blindly renaming it for the purpose of KDE reset.