06-04-2020, 07:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-13-2020, 10:41 AM by Phillip Bell.)
If you have already done this and are stuck, here's what I did to resolve it.
Pre-requisite: You have not been working in the root Desktop, but rather the administrator user Desktop that you should have created upon startup. We will work with two users, root and <username>, where the latter is the username with the stuck desktop.
Pre-requisite: You have not been working in the root Desktop, but rather the administrator user Desktop that you should have created upon startup. We will work with two users, root and <username>, where the latter is the username with the stuck desktop.
- Reboot your machine (hard reboot)
- The Manjaro KDE Plasma login screen should appear after reboot. The issue I saw is only related to logging in, because the CPU Monitor widget is bound to your user Desktop, not everyone else's.
- Switch User from login screen
- For username root and then your root password
- This should open a new Desktop as root user, with no non-stock widgets enabled
- Open Konsole
- From the command line (as root), `su <username>`, where <username> is the username with the stuck desktop.
- `cd ~/.config` to navigate to <username> config directory. Note, this is not root .config directory, but the <username> .config directory.
- `vim plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc` (or use any text editor of your choice)
- Find the following lines and delete:
[Containments][2][Applets][19] immutability=1 plugin=org.kde.plasma.systemmonitor.cpu - Save, restart entire machine and login as your <username>
