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DNVIC

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Registered: 2022-09-19

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[SOLVED] KDE won't load any program via taskbar or search menu

After a recent package update, I'm now no longer able to open programs via the taskbar or the start menu. Alt + F2 still works, however thats kind of annoying so I'd like to be able to use my taskbar again.

When looking through journalctl, the only entry I could find thats correlated with the problem is this:

Feb 13 10:27:07 DNVICLaptop plasmashell[1260]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.taskmanager/contents/ui/Task.qml:433: Unable to assign [undefined] to QString

This might be helpful, but I couldn't find anything useful from looking this up

Here's my pacman log for the update which broke the taskbar and search menu
https://pastebin.com/6wJB4EP4

I'm also on a laptop but I don't think that affects anything in this circumstance, but I figured I'd mention

Last edited by DNVIC (2023-02-13 17:37:35)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,104

Re: [SOLVED] KDE won't load any program via taskbar or search menu

There are some issues with the glibc bump and some potentially broken plasma configs. Try checking whether ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc contains a bunch of garbage or moving that file out of the way so it's reset.

DNVIC

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Registered: 2022-09-19

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] KDE won't load any program via taskbar or search menu

Yep, that was it. File was empty for some reason, deleting it fixed the issue.