I have recently upgraded to Plasma 6. It’s has been riddled with issues. One major issue is that when I let the PC sit for a while, the screen turns off (as it should), then the pc just either freezes indefinitely, or wakes up, but nothing is responsive. I can’t even enter my password to log in. For now, I have disabled auto suspend and turn off screen and all that. I suspend it manually when I am done working. I really don’t want to reinstall, as I have had this set up for over a year and I will need to do a ton of work to get it back working. I do have root and home partitions separated, and I can reinstall, but if I absolutely had to. Is there anything I can do to remove all of plasma 5 leftover things without breaking things? Is there such thing as resetting plasma to its defaults without reinstalling? PS. I have submitted several bug reports and I will get back at it when I have time
Operating System: EndeavourOS KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.0.0 Qt Version: 6.6.2 Kernel Version: 6.8.1-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with Radeon Graphics Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 580 Series Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Product Name: A520I AC System Version: -CF
In the /home directory, there should be a hidden directory called .kde which mostly contains KDE settings for your user. Rename it and check. A new one might get created with default settings during next login.
Caution: I am no expert and consider all backup options before doing this because it may force you to re-install.
Edit 1: based on additional searching due to comment below, it was ~/.config for KDE 5. I have no idea of what it is for KDE 6. May be you will have to go through source code to find.
https://github.com/shalva97/kde-configuration-files
KDE hasn’t used ~/.kde since KDE 4 iirc.
Then what does it actually use? Is there a way to help the person asking the question?
It’s unfortunately a bit of a mess. There’s all kinds of files for different KDE applications in
~/.config/, with no common folder for all of them…many apps use ~/.config, if you rename that you will also remove settings for those apps
Is ~/config only for KDE or does any other application use it to save configuration files?
@voracread I think ~/.config is the standard config file location on Linux (for apps that follow XDG standards) so it should also have config files for non-kde apps
So that rules out blindly renaming it for the purpose of KDE reset.