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title: Plasma Troubleshooting
summary: Troubleshooting Issues With the Plasma Desktop
---

# Plasma Desktop Troubleshooting

This contains fixes for various issues you might encounter with the Plasma desktop environment.

## Desktop no longer responds to clicks, cursor stuck in "move" mode (cross)

This is often caused by a Firefox bug. It can be triggered by various things, like moving Firefox windows.

**Symptoms:**
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- Can't click on anything on the desktop.
- Bringing up windows with keyboard shortcuts (ex: Super for the app menu, F9 for a drop down terminal) works, but they don't get focused. You can't interact with them.
- Mouse cursor is stuck in move mode, it looks like a cross.

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You may not need to reboot to recover from this state. Killing all firefox processes may be all that's necessary. To do so:

1. Open a virtual terminal by pressing `Ctrl+Alt+F3`.
1. Run the following to kill all firefox windows:
```bash
killall firefox

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This should close all Firefox windows.
1. Return to the Plasma session by pressing `Ctrl+Alt+F2`.
You should now be able to use Plasma normally.

## Application windows look corrupt / incomplete

**Symptoms**
- Application windows look corrupt. For example, NeoChat does not display room or user icons.
- Menus in an application are blank.

You may be able to fix this by clearing KDE / Plasma cache files.
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:::cautionImportant

You should not be logged into your Plasma session while deleting the cache files, booting from a live USB is necessary.

:::

1. While still logged into your Plasma session, go to your home directory:
```bash
cd
```
1. Run these commands to back up the following directories:
```bash
cp -av ~/.kde{,.bak}
cp -av ~/.config{,.bak}
cp -av ~/.local{,.bak}
cp -av ~/share{,.bak}
```
The commands create a copy of the folders. Each copy has the `.bak` extension (Example: `~/.config.bak`). These can be used to recover configuration files, if necessary.
1. Shut down the system.
1. Boot from a live USB, which you can create from one of the [Solus installers](https://getsol.us/download/).
1. [Mount your hard drive's file system](./boot-rescue.md#mounting-your-system).
1. Change to your user's directory where you mounted your file system. For example, if you used `/mount`:
```bash
cd /mount/home/username
```
Replace "username" with the username you use for Solus.
You can make sure the directory is correct by listing the files:
```bash
ls -laH
```
You should see the files you would usually see in your home directory when logged into Solus normally.
1. Remove the various caches that Plasma uses.
Execute the following commands:
```bash
rm -rf .kde
rm -rf .cache/plasmashell*

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rm -rf .cache/org.kde.dirmodel-qml.kcache

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rm -rf .cache/kioexec/ .cache/krunner/ .cache/ksycoca5*

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rm -rf .cache/krunnerbookmarkrunnerfirefoxdbfile.sqlite

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cd ../.local/
rm -rf kate/ kded5/ klipper/ knewstuff3/ kscreen/ konsole/ kwalletd/ ksysguard/ kmail2/ kcookiejar/ kactivitymanagerd/

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cd ../share/
rm -rf dolphin kate kcookiejar kded5 keyrings klipper kmail2 knewstuff3 konsole kscreen ksysguard kwalletd kxmlgui5 plasma_engine_comic plasma plasma_notes org.kde.gwenview

cd ../.config/
rm -f plasma*
rm -rf kde* akonadi* KDE kconf_updaterc baloo* dolphinrc drkonqirc gwenviewrc kmail2rc k*rc katemetainfos
```
1. Shut down the live environment and remove the live USB drive.
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1. Reboot back into your regular Plasma session. Verify the issue is fixed.
1. If you experience system instability, restore the previously backed up folders.

To restore an entire directory:
```
cp -rav .kde.bak/share/config/ .kde/share/config
```
After restoring the file(s) or directories, restart your system.
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