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<p class="ltx_p"><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_sansserif">TLDR: Plasma (5.14.4 under Fedora 35) is not showing my /home/username/Desktop/*.desktop files on the desktop.</span></p>
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<p class="ltx_p"><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_sansserif">Details:</span></p>
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<p class="ltx_p"><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_sansserif">I recently upgraded two computers at my household to Fedora 35 (f35):
mine and my wife’s. My machine was previously running mate DE; my
wife’s machine was previously running Plasma DE.</span></p>
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<p class="ltx_p"><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_sansserif">My wife’s machine upgraded just fine. Desktop files in /home/username/Desktop are being displayed just as under f34.</span></p>
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<p class="ltx_p"><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_sansserif">My machine did not upgrade fine. When I right-click and switch to Desktop view, the desktop is blank, even though I have
a couple of .desktop files in /home/uername/Desktop.</span></p>
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<p class="ltx_p"><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_sansserif">I’ve checked the .desktop file permissions as well as the Desktop folder permissions and my /home/username folder permissions
and they are just like my wife’s files/folders.</span></p>
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<p class="ltx_p"><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_sansserif">It may also be noteworthy that I am getting this message in /var/log/messages:</span></p>
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<span class="ltx_text ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">2022-07-04</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">T12</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">:19:50.967859-04:00</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_space ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;"> </span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">localhost</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_space ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;"> </span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">plasmashell</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">[1787]:</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_space ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;"> </span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">QDBusConnection</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">:</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_space ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;"> </span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">error</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">:</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_space ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;"> </span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">could</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_space ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;"> </span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">not</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_space ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;"> </span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">send</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_space ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;"> </span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">signal</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_space ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;"> </span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">to</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_space ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;"> </span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">service</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_space ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;"> </span><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">""</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_space ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;"> </span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">path</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_space ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;"> </span><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">"/</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">plasma</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">-</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">org</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">.</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">kde</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">.</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">plasma</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">.</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">desktop</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">-</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">appletsrc</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">"</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_space ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;"> </span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">interface</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_space ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;"> </span><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">"</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">org</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">.</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">kde</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">.</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">kconfig</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">.</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">notify</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">"</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_space ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;"> </span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">member</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_space ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;"> </span><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">"</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">ConfigChanged</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">":</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_space ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;"> </span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">Invalid</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_space ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;"> </span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">object</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_space ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;"> </span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">path</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">:</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_space ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;"> </span><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">/</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">plasma</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">-</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">org</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">.</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">kde</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">.</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">plasma</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">.</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">desktop</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">-</span><span class="ltx_text ltx_lst_identifier ltx_font_typewriter" style="font-size:80%;color:#666666;">appletsrc</span>
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<p class="ltx_p"><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_sansserif">Please help if you can.</span></p>
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<p class="ltx_p"><span class="ltx_text ltx_font_sansserif" style="font-size:80%;color:#808080;">Randy Yates
<br class="ltx_break">yates@digitalsignallabs.com
<br class="ltx_break">919-412-8994 (cell)
<br class="ltx_break">919-577-9882 (landline)
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