KDE4.2 broken icons on panel

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Every time I reboot, or log in, KDE adds 11 broken icons to my panel. It leaves the proper icons alone, it just add 11 broken ones.

I have read a great deal about similar behavior in other posts and tried many of the solutions (which seem to involve eliminating all or part of .kde4) with no luck. My plasmoids are otherwise fine, and nothing is duplicated or in the wrong place – I just get these 11 broken icons.

That and Konsole continually forgets my settings.

But most important are the 11 icons. Anyone else experiencing this and/or have some kind of solution?

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Don’t know how to solve the other problems but I’ve had the same problem with Konsole.

I’ve created a new profile in Konsole, set the desired parameters and set the created profile as default.

And by the way, here is a similar problem discussed in the mailinglist: [opensuse-kde] updated to KDE: 4.2.00 (KDE 4.2.0) “release 88.2” : all i](http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-kde/2009-02/msg00061.html)

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Thanks on the Konsole fix!

Also, thanks for pointing me at the mailing list. I hadn’t checked through thoroughly enough I guess.

Still, if someone here has a solution on these miserable 11 icons that come back every time I log in – even after deleting them in my previous session – it would be fantastic.

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I have 2 dead (er, undead?) icons in KDE4.2. Mine are what’s left of the Dolphin and Konqueror launchers from KDE4.13. I’ve also tried several ways to get rid of them. I succeeded once but then made ghosts out of the good ones I had. There must be someone around who knows how to identify them in the -rc files so they can be lifted out and dispensed with.

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Should be some orphan lines in ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc and plasmarc like

[Applets][1][Applets][38][Configuration]
Url=

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You can try this:

When your desktop is the way you want it with no extra icons, open a terminal as normal user and type:

kquitapp plasma; plasma

This should restart plasma with no changes but the configuration should be written correctly. Log out/log in and see if it worked.

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I figured it out. The dead icons are referenced in ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc but are not used by ~/.kde4/share/config/plasmarc.

To kill the dead icons, simply delete all the stanzas in the plasma-appletsrc file that aren’t used in plasmarc. There are two stanzas for each icon, for example

[Containments][3][Applets][7]
geometry=96,7,28,28
immutability=1
plugin=icon
zvalue=0

[Containments][3][Applets][7][Configuration]
Url=file:///usr/share/applications kde4/konqbrowser.desktop

Delete both of these stanzas. The applet number in this example is “7” so in this case there should be no applet 7 mentioned in plasmarc, otherwise you would keep it. (Hope I explained that well enough. Make sure you back up any file you edit, though.)

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eerok – You got it!

Totally fixed the problem. By removing -both- the orphan URL [Configuration] references and the parent [Containments][x][Applets][x] from plasma-appletrc, I no longer have those confounded dead icons!

Thanks so much for your help everyone!

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the answer is as stated, extra entries in the plasma-appletrc file. I did it another way, removing all the icons that were orphaned, setting the desktop up the way i wanted, then renamed the plasma-appletrc file and logged out. I expected to find no plasmoids and a blank desktop from a rebuilt default plasma-appletsrc. I was pleasantly surprised that the logout had saved the desktop to new “rc” files and i had just what i wanted and no orphaned icons.

hope this helps and works for you.

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Yes, that solution worked!Thanks!

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I receive some error messages and plasma chashes: restarting nothing is fixed.

Me too. Rename the “plasma-appletrc” file log out, log in fixed the problem: Thanks a lot j_xavier!

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Hmmm, maybe I’m missing something obvious, but I can’t seem to find my plasma-appletsrc file. I have navigated to /etc/kde4/share/config but it’s not there. The Plasmarc file is tho.

What am I doing wrong?

Is “/etc/kde4/share/config” (where I’m looking) the same as “~/.kde4/share/config/” (where you state)?

Also, my clock applet deosn’t appear where I left it when I log back in. Is this issue related do you think?

Thanks for your help guys.

Steve

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Absolutely not.
“~/” means your home directory which of course can’t be “etc”.
Even more, “.kd4” (dot!) means that the directory is “hidden”.

“~/” is “/root/” for the root user, “/home/user_name/” for everyone else.

Bye.

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Ahha!

I see, didn’t know that ~was my home directory - I get it now.

And furthermore, it worked a treat for me. Those pesky icons are gone, and my clock even stays put where I leave it.

Many thanks guys, and especially j_xavier.

Steve

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That fixed it for me too! THANKS! :slight_smile: