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tvidal

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Registered: 2020-06-18

Posts: 23

[SOLVED] plasma applications menu empty and task manager icons missing

This morning I ran paru -Syu --skipreview, fixed some jdk/jre apparently unrelated conflicts and after the updated completed I restarted the system.

Found the task manager icons missing, and the applications menu empty as the following screenshot:

Google search returns some other forum posts from gentoo and other distros that are mostly related to new installation not showing the applications, I have had this installation for years now.

What I have tried:

Global Shortcuts work, Meta+K opens the console and from there I can open firefox and any other application.

All desktop files still exist inside ~/.local/share/applications

tried rm -f ~/.config/[Pp]plasma*(.) and logout/login, desktop was reset to default, but applications menu was still empty.

Also tried:

kbuildsycoca5 --noincremental
kbuildsycoca5 running...
"applications.menu"  not found in  ("/home/thiago/.config/menus", "/etc/xdg/menus")

Not sure what else I can do, any other suggestion, please?
Thank you.

Last edited by tvidal (2023-11-08 16:51:39)

tvidal

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Registered: 2020-06-18

Posts: 23

Re: [SOLVED] plasma applications menu empty and task manager icons missing

Well, found the answer myself... for future reference:

started by looking for the owner of /etc/xdg/menus:

$ sudo pacman -Qo /etc/xdg/menus
/etc/xdg/menus/ is owned by kinfocenter 5.27.9-1
/etc/xdg/menus/ is owned by kservice5 5.111.0-1

$ sudo pacman -Ql kinfocenter kservice5 | grep applications.menu
kservice5 /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu

at the end, this did the trick:

sudo pacman -S kservice5 && kbuildsycoca5 --noincremental