No 'Keyboard" or "Touchpad" entries in Plasma > System Settings > Input Devices

[opensuseinmanila]

My system: Leap 15.3 with Plasma 5.18.6
My problem: In System Settings > Hardware > Input Devices there are no entries for "Keyboard" and "Touchpad" (see the screenshot). How do I tell Plasma that I have both on my laptop so that I can get the entries in Input Devices back so that I can configure both the keyboard (essential, as I need German, Hebrew and Greek keyboard layouts) and the touchpad?
Background: I deleted the folders .cache, .config, .kde4, .local in my home folder because when selecting "Disable Touchpad when mouse is plugged in" the touchpad would never be enabled when the mouse was unplugged. I hoped that this would be cured when I started with new config files. (This may have been a stupid idea but it's too late now.) Before the deletion of those folders the appropriate entries used to there. Keyboard and touchpad both work.

[nrickert]

Background: I deleted the folders .cache, .config, .kde4, .local in my home folder because ...

Were you logged into KDE at that time (when you deleted the)? If so, that's likely to be part of your problem.

I suggest that you logout from KDE. Then use CTRL-ALT-F1 to get a command line, and login there. And then:

/bin/rm -rf .cache .config .local .kde4

Then logout from the command line session, use CTRL-ALT-F7 to get back to the graphic screen, and login again to KDE. That should recreate those folders with the default settings.

[opensuseinmanila]

Thanks for the reply. I did delete the config files in IceWM (I had done it before and did not have issues). Logging back into to Plasma I discovered the problem. Logging out and back in again or even rebooting the machine did not help yesterday -- until this morning (Manila time). A good night's rest helped; both entries are back. I don't understand it this, but the problem is gone.

[nrickert]

When you logout from KDE, some applications remain running for a while. And maybe those caused the problem. The reboot terminates them.

I'm glad you have things back working.