after last update virtual desktop names are not shown in pager every reboot, I have to go to system settings>virtualdesktops>change a name and apply
to have virtual desktop names shown in pager
have you tried changing the pager config to one of the other options, apply (maybe even reboot) and then try changing it back to show names?
or are then names you save in virtual desktops not sticking around after a reboot?
the names are there but are not shown until I modify one name and apply ths modification
but when I reboot the names disappear again
that makes me think the config for pager is not saving which is why i suggested forcing it to change, rebooting, and then changing it back to show names again.
perhaps that will write the file for reading and it will be read in properly… it’s just a hunch and easy to try.
you could also use something like this to watch and see if the changes you are making to pager are being saved or not.
find -not \( -path './snap/firefox/common' -prune \) -not \( -path './.cache' -prune \) -type f -mmin -1 -printf "%C+ %p\n" | sort -n | tail -10
you should find it saving changes in
~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc
which you can then watch in kate for changes to see if they make sense.
in fact, playing with that just now shows me that it does not make any changes unless you select either name or number (selecting no display) seems to leave the file unchanged.
I turned the names on and even rebooted as a test. All is well.
Also noticed that Spectacle cannot get this hover info. It makes it go away and had to use Flameshoot. 
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20260618
KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.27.0
Qt Version: 6.11.1
Kernel Version: 7.0.12-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 16 Ă— AMD Ryzen 7 5825U with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 64 GiB of RAM (62.1 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics
Manufacturer: HP
Product Name: HP ProBook 455 15.6 inch G9 Notebook PC
glad you got it to work.
to capture things like that you need to use the delay feature in spectacle and then select the rectangular region button from the GUI.
the timer will give you time to get your menu or tooltip up on the screen before it locks in.
then you can just drag the rectangle over to where you want to capture the image.
you can also sometime just check the box for “capture the current pop up only” and use meta+print to grab it.
I have a similar issue in Kubuntu 26.04, Plasma 6.6.4.
I have 7 desktops named 1 to 7. Every time I reboot, the first desktop name is changed to “Desktop 1” and appears in the pager that way. Here is what that looks like.
If I change the name “Desktop 1” to “1” and click apply, it will take until the next boot.
sounds like another “configuration files not saving” bug
what does the [Desktops] section of
~/.config/kwinrc
look like?
and when you change it back to “1” , does it get recorded there?
Upon boot, ~/.config/kwinrc (desktop section) looks like this.
[Desktops]
Id_1=848cf6ea-ea97-490c-9359-784824c14d88
Id_2=5eb7c955-5a61-4346-9f04-b1728636c578
Id_3=be48a047-4a12-43c8-8b14-14bd57be8a6f
Id_4=449e4da7-c619-482d-823b-b90c2da1ee65
Id_5=c39110cf-ff18-40d0-8651-1582344d1dda
Id_6=ac225592-ed95-4dcd-8371-881885235cf4
Id_7=1657068e-8ec3-40e6-9094-1e2743702040
Name_2=2
Name_3=3
Name_4=4
Name_5=5
Name_6=6
Name_7=7
Number=7
Rows=1
Then I change the name “Desktop 1” to “1”, click apply and change from desktop 1 to another and back to get the pager to refresh. Pager now shows “1” as it should.
~/.config/kwinrc is exactly the same as it was before
[Desktops]
Id_1=848cf6ea-ea97-490c-9359-784824c14d88
Id_2=5eb7c955-5a61-4346-9f04-b1728636c578
Id_3=be48a047-4a12-43c8-8b14-14bd57be8a6f
Id_4=449e4da7-c619-482d-823b-b90c2da1ee65
Id_5=c39110cf-ff18-40d0-8651-1582344d1dda
Id_6=ac225592-ed95-4dcd-8371-881885235cf4
Id_7=1657068e-8ec3-40e6-9094-1e2743702040
Name_2=2
Name_3=3
Name_4=4
Name_5=5
Name_6=6
Name_7=7
Number=7
Rows=1
Shouldn’t there be a line that says
Name_1=1
Where is “Desktop 1” name coming from?
there should definitely be a line
Name_1=
with a value associated with it.
i would add that line and see if it stays after a reboot.
I added the line
Name_1=1
to ~/.config/kwinrc and rebooted and the pager correctly showed the correct name or “1”. So the value in kwinrc sticks. Nice!
To continue the experiment, I went into setting and changed desktop 1 name from “1” to “Joe”, hit apply, went to another desktop and back to one and the pager showed the 1st desktop as “Joe”. Looked at kwinrc and joe was not there. Name_1=1 was still there.
I rebooted and now “1” is back on the pager and “Joe” is not.
So it seams like the issues are:
- name_1= is missing from kwinrc
- settings doesn’t write a value to name_1 to kwinrc whether name_1 is present or not.
on my plasmashell 6.4.2 is this
[code]
[Desktops]
Id_1=3e796254-e2fe-4f00-ad12-d58d973d7ad9
Id_2=50a24579-b4a4-4fbb-81d6-ae6ec28bb8a0
Id_3=21809443-0a55-402e-a14d-721e889b6fc5
Id_4=ba283118-a1fe-4865-9b89-609ab4161b7e
Id_5=666e5ba4-bd5b-4f98-8ce4-52ecce736729
Id_6=97e74e58-aa65-4f1a-96e7-c701d130be3b
Name_1=D1
Name_2=D2
Name_3=D3Fi
Name_4=D4Ch
Name_5=D5Go
Name_6=D6Fa
Number=6
Rows=1
[/code]
and if I change name it is recorded there
I am also facing this bug. When I rename a Virtual Desktop in System Settings, the pager doesn’t update to show the new name. However the ~/.config/kwinrc does get updated properly.
Looks like the pager is not properly synced to the state of that file.
Should I file a bug report or something? Sorry I’m really new here.
hi, welcome.
this does sound like a bug that is affecting multiple users and should be reported if it’s not already at bugs.kde.org
my poor search foo skills did not turn up anything there about pager or virtual desktop names
someone experiencing this problem should file the report under plasma, plasmashell, pager widget would be my recommendation.
Yes, please do report it there!
Awesome! I will file the bug as soon as I can. Actually I tried to file it a few days ago but I got really confused by the bug filing process because I didn’t know what sub-categories to file it under.
Really excited to (hopefully) contribute to KDE!
I filed Bug 522322 . Please let me know if I could have done a better job.
It’d be pretty cool if I could take a shot at fixing it too. Would appreciate some guidance for where to start with that. Probably in the Wiki somewhere… will try to figure it out
I always use delay and rectangle region. Can you post a similar screenshot using spectacle?
To get that screenshot, I had to use Flameshoot because Spectacle makes the tool tip for pager go away. Even tried other open apps on task manager, but again Spectacle makes the tooltip go away. Just tried other capture modes and none of them wor for me.
