Plasma icons and wallpaper changed suddenly

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Hi.

Today when I logged in my wallpapers were gone and all the icons in the desktop moved and some of them changed.
I’m using plasma 5.18.6
What may have happened?

2

Hard to guess. The wallpapers and icons are fine here.

I guess your settings are stored in $HOME/.config and $HOME/.local – perhaps something got corrupted there.

3

Im guessing it is because most of them are links to /usr/share/applications/* y there are some things that have dissapear from there

4

I’m not sure why those would disappear, unless you uninstalled the packages.

5

It’s not terribly unusual when Plasma behaves inexplicably that logging out of Plasma, deleting the content of ~/.cache/, then logging back into Plasma restores normalcy.

6

Today it has happened again.
I have deleted all contents in ~/.cache and logout out and login in again and the icons have not gone again to their place, but I will see if it happens again.

What has astonished me has been this

fernando@andromeda:~/.cache> du -sh .
39G     .
fernando@andromeda:~/.cache>

39GB of cache!!!

7

Much of that is probably images cached by browsers.

It’s around 2.5G here. But I do occasionally clean it up.