Duncan posted on Thu, 31 Dec 2015 09:17:23 +0000 as excerpted: > But while plasmashell started [...] I had no nice plasmoid widgets! > Instead, I see this text message printed on the background: > > Error loading QML file: > file:///share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.desktopcontainment/contents/ui/ > main.qml:32:1: > Script > file:///share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.desktopcontainment/contents/ui/ > LayoutManager.js unavailable > file:///share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.desktopcontainment/contents/ui/ > LayoutManager.js: > File not found > > (Yes, that's /share/ not /usr/share on my system as I've done the /usr > merge as a symlink: /usr -> . , so all the usual subdirs of /usr, > including /usr/share, end up directly on / .) > > And only the error icon beside the message actually lets me > context-click to get the standard desktop context menu. Everywhere else > on the desktop, it just gives me a default cut/copy/paste/etc context > menu. Well, except for the "pancake" menu icon (that replaced kde4's > cashew) in the corner. It still works, but doesn't offer a way to start > anything, etc, so the only launcher I have (besides the default alt-F2 > or alt-F3, whichever it is, runner) is in the context menu for that > error icon. While a user who was running kde on OpenSuSE as well and had the same problem there, commenting on the gentoo bug report I filed on this, steered me in the right direction -- plasma had problems with in-path symlinks, namely, the /usr -> . symlink I was using here, I didn't actually get a chance to verify that and file it as a kde bug, because... After upgrading to kde-frameworks 5.18.0 (including the plasma framework package) and kde-plasma (including plasma-desktop) 5.5.3, everything "magically worked as it should. =:^) And now, after a couple solid days of recustomizing, I'm finally up and operational on plasma5, with all the apps that I can switch, switched over to frameworks5. =:^) So for others finding this on google or whatever, upgrading to either frameworks 5.18 or plasma 5.5.3, I'm not sure which, fixed it for me, and should for you as well, I hope. =:^) Alternatively, if you're stuck on a distro that won't be upgrading kde for awhile, as a workaround, you'd need to arrange for the /usr/share/ plsama/plasmoids/ path to have no symlinks, perhaps using a mount or bind-mount in place of the symlink, if you can't simply use subdirs. While I got the fix before I tried it, the other user used a mount in place of the symlink, to fix his problem, so it should work. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.