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abrahamlnx

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Registered: 2024-02-11

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KDE plasma fresh install won't save pinned apps to icon-only taskbar

so I upgraded to a new m2 drive and did a fresh archinstall, and I've notice that apps that I pin to my taskbar won't stay there after rebooting my system

Last edited by abrahamlnx (2024-06-07 03:40:31)

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

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Re: KDE plasma fresh install won't save pinned apps to icon-only taskbar

Please describe what  you're trying to pin on what "version" of the task bar (there are three alternatives) and how exactly you pin them. Are they just not there anymore or is there a broken launcher with a white "blank file" icon?

abrahamlnx

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Registered: 2024-02-11

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Re: KDE plasma fresh install won't save pinned apps to icon-only taskbar

I'm trying to pin my most used apps to Icons-only task manager like chrome, konsole, discord... I've tried pinning them while opening them and right clicking or by going to the application menu, I'm not sure where to even see the version installed but its the newest.
there are no errors, after rebooting my system all Icons I pinned to my taskbar dissappear, they dont leave blank files or anything.

JacKethane

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Registered: 2024-06-13

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Re: KDE plasma fresh install won't save pinned apps to icon-only taskbar

Funnily enough I also upgraded my SSD, installed arch, did a fresh install of KDE plasma, and immediately ran into this same problem.

I think the issue here is that the apps you're pinning to the Icons-only task manager don't have a .desktop file which the task manager uses to save which applications you've pinned.

Here's a manual workaround that works for me:

1) Create a .desktop file for whatever application you want (e.g., dolphin); you can do this through the application launcher > find app > right click > Add to desktop. This creates a .desktop file in /usr/share/applications; you can find it by doing, for example,

ls /usr/share/applications | grep dolphin

2) Add the application to the plasma config. For example,

nano ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc

Then Ctrl+W "application" and add the .desktop to the end. For me it looks like

[Containments][2][Applets][5][Configuration][General]
launchers=applications:systemsettings.desktop,applications:firefox.desktop,applications:com.gexperts.Tilix.desktop,applications:org.kde.dolphin.desktop 

3) Reboot and they should now be pinned.

This is probably a bug with KDE plasma where right click > pin app doesn't make the .desktop file, but I'll let people more qualified to speak on that speak on it.

abrahamlnx

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Registered: 2024-02-11

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Re: KDE plasma fresh install won't save pinned apps to icon-only taskbar

I haven't trie the previous workaround you posted, but I've been following a thread in the KDE forums and the devs said they fixed this issue in the upcoming update droping in a few days.

https://discuss.kde.org/t/plasma-6-task … s/11342/25