Help! Plasmashell crashing

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I was playing garrysmod and my entire desktop froze. I pressed the restart button on my computer and now plasmashell keeps crashing. I already tried deleting the two files that list the wid

I’m not quite sure what to do from here.

I already tried deleting the contents of * ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc

and

  • ~/.config/plasmashellrc

I can only really do anything from the console menu (Alt + F2)
Thanks.

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here’s a picture of my most recently journalctl

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here’s what i get when i run plasmashell from the terminal

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It looks like it is complaining about the theme. Can you remove that “Desert-Color-Plasma” theme? Or at least change the configuration so your Desktop doesn’t try to use it?

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Hey Gregory,

I will do this when I get home. Likely just need to figure out how through the command line or figure out some way with hotkeys to open the KDE settings window.

Thanks.

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I changed it but it seemed to not do anything

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If you can still get a working console after a freeze, try running sudo journalctl --since=-5min to see if you can find any error messages that might hint at what is going wrong.

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Hi Noah. I found another solution asking the kind folks on the KDE forum.

My system just went back to software rendering and I had no idea how to open the menu to change it. Below is the instructions to fix this.

kcmshell6 kcm_qtquicksettings -this will open a menu
change ‘Rendering Backend’ to Automatic.