Package: plasma-desktop Version: 4:5.27.2-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I boot multiple OS installs with a common /home partition, and have found it best to maintain separate XDG configuration directories in $HOME, one for each OS install. This prevents the desktop setting of each OS from interfering with each other. This is done by setting the value of the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environmental variable differently for each OS. When this variable is not set, the default location for XDG configuration is $HOME/.config. This mostly works with KDE plasma in Testing, but I do find that the autostart applications are not starting if XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not $HOME/.config. When they don't start, I can still see them in the Autostart section of plasma's System Settings, and can add and remove them there. A workaround I have found, if XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not $HOME/.config, is to put a symlink in $HOME/.config pointing to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/autostart. Once this is done, the applications do start at login. It seems clear that the startup process is ignoring the value of XDG_CONFIG_HOME in searching for autostart application; it is instead always looking for them in $HOME/.config/autostart. -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers testing-security APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages plasma-desktop depends on: ii accountsservice 22.08.8-6 ii breeze 4:5.27.2-1 ii kactivitymanagerd 5.27.2-1 ii kde-cli-tools 4:5.27.2-1 ii kded5 5.103.0-1 ii kio 5.103.0-1 ii kpackagetool5 5.103.0-1 ii layer-shell-qt 5.27.2-1 ii libaccounts-qt5-1 1.16-2 ii libc6 2.36-8 ii libglib2.0-0 2.74.6-1 ii libibus-1.0-5 1.5.27-5 ii libkaccounts2 4:22.12.3-1 ii libkf5activities5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5activitiesstats1 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5authcore5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5baloo5 5.103.0-2 ii libkf5bookmarks5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5codecs5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5completion5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5configcore5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5configgui5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5configwidgets5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5coreaddons5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5crash5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5dbusaddons5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5globalaccel-bin 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5globalaccel5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5guiaddons5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5i18n5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5iconthemes5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5itemviews5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5jobwidgets5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5kcmutils5 5.103.0-3 ii libkf5kcmutilscore5 5.103.0-3 ii libkf5kdelibs4support5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5kiocore5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5kiofilewidgets5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5kiogui5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5kiowidgets5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5newstuffcore5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5notifications5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5notifyconfig5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5package5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5plasma5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5plasmaquick5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5quickaddons5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5runner5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5service-bin 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5service5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5solid5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5sonnetcore5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5sonnetui5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5widgetsaddons5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5windowsystem5 5.103.0-1 ii libkf5xmlgui5 5.103.0-1 ii libkworkspace5-5 4:5.27.2-1 ii libnotificationmanager1 4:5.27.2-1 ii libpackagekitqt5-1 1.1.0-1 ii libphonon4qt5-4 4:4.11.1-4 ii libprocesscore9 4:5.27.2-1 ii libqt5concurrent5 5.15.8+dfsg-3 ii libqt5core5a 5.15.8+dfsg-3 ii libqt5dbus5 5.15.8+dfsg-3 ii libqt5gui5 5.15.8+dfsg-3 ii libqt5network5 5.15.8+dfsg-3 ii libqt5qml5 5.15.8+dfsg-3 ii libqt5quick5 5.15.8+dfsg-3 ii libqt5quickwidgets5 5.15.8+dfsg-3 ii libqt5sql5 5.15.8+dfsg-3 ii libqt5waylandclient5 5.15.8-2 ii libqt5widgets5 5.15.8+dfsg-3 ii libqt5x11extras5 5.15.8-2 ii libqt5xml5 5.15.8+dfsg-3 ii libscim8v5 1.4.18+git20211204-0.1 ii libstdc++6 12.2.0-14 ii libtaskmanager6abi1 4:5.27.2-1 ii libwayland-client0 1.21.0-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.8.4-2 ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.8.4-2 ii libxcb-keysyms1 0.4.0-1+b2 ii libxcb-record0 1.15-1 ii libxcb-xkb1 1.15-1 ii libxcb1 1.15-1 ii libxcursor1 1:1.2.1-1 ii libxi6 2:1.8-1+b1 ii libxkbcommon0 1.5.0-1 ii libxkbfile1 1:1.1.0-1 ii oxygen-sounds 4:5.27.2-1 ii phonon4qt5 4:4.11.1-4 ii plasma-desktop-data 4:5.27.2-1 ii plasma-framework 5.103.0-1 ii plasma-integration 5.27.2-1 ii plasma-workspace 4:5.27.2-1 ii polkit-kde-agent-1 4:5.27.2-1 ii qml-module-org-kde-draganddrop 5.103.0-1 ii qml-module-org-kde-kcoreaddons 5.103.0-1 ii qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrols 5.103.0-1 ii qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrolsaddons 5.103.0-1 ii qml-module-org-kde-kwindowsystem 5.103.0-1 ii qml-module-org-kde-qqc2desktopstyle 5.103.0-1 ii qml-module-org-kde-solid 5.103.0-1 ii qml-module-qt-labs-folderlistmodel 5.15.8+dfsg-3 ii qml-module-qt-labs-settings 5.15.8+dfsg-3 Versions of packages plasma-desktop recommends: ii bluedevil 4:5.27.2-1 ii breeze-gtk-theme 5.27.2-1 ii fonts-hack 3.003-3 ii fonts-noto 20201225-1 ii ibus-data 1.5.27-5 pn kde-config-flatpak <none> ii kde-config-gtk-style 4:5.27.2-1 ii kde-config-screenlocker 5.27.2-1 ii kde-config-sddm 4:5.27.2-1 ii kde-style-oxygen-qt5 4:5.27.2-1 ii kgamma5 5.27.2-1 ii khelpcenter 4:22.12.3-1 ii khotkeys 4:5.27.2-1 ii kinfocenter 4:5.27.2-1 ii kio-extras 4:22.12.3-1 ii kmenuedit 4:5.27.2-1 ii kscreen 4:5.27.2-1 ii ksshaskpass 4:5.27.2-1 ii kwin-wayland [kwin] 4:5.27.2-1 ii kwin-x11 [kwin] 4:5.27.2-1 ii kwrited 4:5.27.2-1 ii libpam-kwallet5 5.27.2-1 ii plasma-browser-integration 5.27.2-1 ii plasma-discover 5.27.2-1 ii plasma-disks 5.27.2-1 pn plasma-firewall <none> ii plasma-nm 4:5.27.2-1 ii plasma-pa 4:5.27.2-1 ii plasma-systemmonitor 5.27.2-1 ii plasma-thunderbolt 5.27.2-1 ii plasma-vault 5.27.2-1 pn plasma-welcome <none> ii plasma-workspace-wayland 4:5.27.2-1 ii powerdevil 4:5.27.2-1 ii systemsettings 4:5.27.2-1 ii xdg-desktop-portal-gtk 1.14.1-1 ii xdg-desktop-portal-kde 5.27.2-1 plasma-desktop suggests no packages. -- no debconf information