Plasma 6.1.4 restarting programs on login not working

[vespaman]

I bet this has been asked before, but I cannot find any posts about it.

But, I got Plasma 6.1 on an update during the summer, coming from Plasma 5, and are now on 6.1.4


I have huge problem with the feature that remembers open programs - it simply does not work one bit. The only program that reopens, is okular, which I had plenty of in plasma 5, so it kind of makes sense that it is there, but all windows are opened without any content, and not minmized, which I had in plasma 5.


But if I log out with any program open, now, it does not open up on restart, and all the empty okular windows are always opened, even when I have closed them before the last logout.

The setting in system settings -> session is set correctly, but I think there's something going on with that dialog, since at some point, I have had no radio button selected when I open this setting up. Now it says 'by last logout' though.

Is this a known issue, and/or what can be done? Is there some file somewhere that keeps track of the open programs on reboot, that might be corrupt, perhaps?

I am on wayland, but according to release notes the restart should work with plasma 6.1.

Edit: I found a file, ~./local/state/plasmasessionrestorestaterc, that is somehow related, becuase it held all my okular program/windows, and after removing the okular entries in this file, they did not startup anymore. Maybe plasmasessionrestorestaterc is the manually created file, and this was created during migration or something.
But things still does not work, now thunderbird and firefox restarts, but nothing else.

[vespaman]

Also now, I realize I have the exact same issue on a new install (not coming from Plasma 5).
Firefox and thunderbird does restart, nothing else, such as konsole etc.

What might I have missed? Some emerge that is needed for this, or a use flag perhaps?

[leifbk]

With the current stabilisation of Plasma 6, I am also wondering what the state is of this major version compared to Plasma 5. I'm running ~amd64 (profile 48: "split-usr/desktop/plasma (stable)") and I've got the same issue with P6 not remembering my previous session. The only things that reopen are gkrellm (of course on desktop 1 and not desktop 6 where I want it) and my 9 Firefox windows, although they all open on desktop 1 and don't remember their position on the screen. Their sizes are correct, though. When I open KWrite, it comes up with the number of instances that I had opened in the last session, but they're all blank. Dolphin luckily remembers all my tabs, even if I have to start it manually. I've had basically the same desktop setup for many years, and it's annoying to have to repopulate with the 24 windows on 6 desktops that I use to have running after every reboot.

Also, there are lots of missing icons. In the system tray, only "placeholder" icons and a mouse cursor for "Show hidden icons" show up. The main Plasma menu icon to the left in the taskbar only shows an empty document. In my "favourites" menu, System Settings and Konsole have placeholder icons.

There's also a minor annoyance with the height of the taskbar which is constantly changing.

Are these issues reflecting the current state of Plasma 6, or are there things that I can/should do to correct them myself?
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[Frautoincnam]

Plasma 6 is a real disaster for me. The icons on my dashboards disappear when you hover over them. The window rules don't work at all.
It's unbearable.
My only ambition now is to downgrade all that.

[sam_]

[asturm]

[finoderi]

I've never trusted session restore, so I don't know if it's working now or not, but I don't have other problems that were mentioned here. All icons are in place, nothing changes without my permission ).
I've noticed only one minor issue - there is no device in 'Colour Management' section in System Settings, but the colour correction is working with the ICC profile I chose in 'Display & Monitor' section.
Also the plasma overall feels a bit snappier than before and start-up time is much shorter now.

After the upgrade was done I chose to use new config every time dispatch-conf asked me. There were about 5-6 new configs.

[vespaman]

Apart from restore, my icons also are living their own life, esp if I go between desktop 4k screen and laptop screen. Also, sometimes, I am not allowed to rearrange the icons as I'd like.
Then libreoffice calc is opening its right click dialogs far away from the mouse pointer, virtual box has issues with multiple desktops etc etc.

All minor bugs, but still annoying. But going back to plasma 5 is a huge work, I hope the fixes will arrive soon-ish. Session restore is the one I hate to be without the most.

Have not tried to avoid wayland, but maybe it will come to that, if it stays like this.

[davidbryant]

[davidbryant]

[asturm]

That's a workaround posted in the bug, not what was finally committed upstream. Make sure to post your results after trying that patch, I'm curious.

EDIT: Please note that the bug you've found was specifically in X11.

Regarding Wayland sessions, please read about known limitations: https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Known_Significant_Issues#Waiting_on_new_Wayland_protocol

With problems like these, *always* state your session type.

[leifbk]

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[Frautoincnam]

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