I am using KDE Plasma on Debian Sid. I tried to edit the desktop background to add some widgets. However, it doesn't seem to work as no widgets are showing up in the list. I restarted the machine and yet the problem persists. I am attaching a screenshot. Any idea as to how I can deal with this?
It's not that the widgets are not there. If I click somewhere in the widgets list, then they appear on the desktop. It's just that they don't show up.
I wish I knew. My gut says it's a ~/.cache or QML issue, and I did search around for a solution for you, but I didn't really find a specific match to this.
Yeah I would suggest sticking with Trixy if you want a stable and reliable experience, I’ve been running Debian for well over 2 years now as a daily driver, I have not had the need to switch away from the stable branch.
Regardless have you tried reinstalling the KDE Packages?
sudo apt purge --auto-remove '*plasma*' '*kde*' 'sddm'; sudo apt install kde-full kde-standard kde-plasma-desktop task-kde-desktop sddm; sudo reboot
^The above set of commands will likely reset your KDE settings, wallpapers, etc so bear that in mind before running this if you need to back any settings up.^
one of the things about kde -- as well as many other packages -- that irks me sometimes is that the version they ship is a variant that works for them, leaving you stuck with problems like this. my experience tells me that debian is probably one of the distro's that are better at this than most, but not completely.
You are using Sid.
Yeah, why? lol!!
The emphasis is on the "are". You ARE using Sid and it's meant to be buggy every now and then, so what did you expect 😅
it’s meant to be buggy every now and then,
This has been for a while though.
why sid and not forky
I wanted to try the latest possible version of Plasma. I don't want to hop to a non-Debian base and Neon has certain issues - being based on Ubuntu is the major one - which puts me off.
If you like to use recent stuff I would suggest questioning if Debian is the right approach. I would like to recommend CachyOs.
I'm a loooooooong time Debian user. I don't do Ubuntu or other variants.
I only run sid on a test machine because its always broken in some way, testing on another, and then the majority is deb stable.
If I want the latest and greatest and to actually use it though, not just see what's coming and where issues might be for me later, I use arch. FWIW I use arch on two out of four laptops (one is deb stable, one is a work windows laptop), one Debian sid, testing, and stable each on (somewhat) matching spec workstations, and then deb stable (or deb stable + proxmox) on the rest of the bunch.
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