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voracread , (edited )

In the /home directory, there should be a hidden directory called .kde which mostly contains KDE settings for your user. Rename it and check. A new one might get created with default settings during next login.

Caution: I am no expert and consider all backup options before doing this because it may force you to re-install.

Edit 1: based on additional searching due to comment below, it was ~/.config for KDE 5. I have no idea of what it is for KDE 6. May be you will have to go through source code to find.

github.com/shalva97/kde-configuration-files

kugmo ,
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KDE hasn’t used ~/.kde since KDE 4 iirc.

voracread ,

Then what does it actually use? Is there a way to help the person asking the question?

Ephera ,

It’s unfortunately a bit of a mess. There’s all kinds of files for different KDE applications in ~/.config/, with no common folder for all of them…

lastjunkieonearth ,

many apps use ~/.config, if you rename that you will also remove settings for those apps

voracread ,

Is ~/config only for KDE or does any other application use it to save configuration files?

PerryPeak ,

@voracread I think ~/.config is the standard config file location on Linux (for apps that follow XDG standards) so it should also have config files for non-kde apps

voracread ,

So that rules out blindly renaming it for the purpose of KDE reset.

deadcream ,

It’s the standard location for all apps (actually it can be overridden by environment variables and ~/.config is the default value). However like many things in the Linux world it’s not enforced. Some apps (especially console utilities) don’t respect it but most use it.

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