KDE 6.3.6 does not remember settings in Application launcher

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Hello all,
For my neighbor I have installed SolydK 13 (Debian Trixie with KDE) on a new Acer Aspire laptop. It is fully updated.
In the settings for the application launcher I chose the setting: Switch sidebar categories when hovering over them. When it is ticked this does exactly what it is supposed to do.
But after a reboot the setting is switched off again, the tick box is empty.

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Is there a way to change this by myself or is it a bug in the system?

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KDE Plasma version: 6.3.6
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.13.0
Qt version: 6.8.2
Kernel version: 6.12.57 + deb13-amd64 (64bit)
Graphics platform: Wayland

Thanks

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that hover tick is switchCategoryOnHover on the kickoff applet. for me it can get wiped after reboot on some builds

-right click the launcher → Configure Application Launcher → tick it → Apply
-then check:
grep -n switchCategoryOnHover ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc
should show true
-if reboot flips it off, set that key to true in the file and log out/in

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Thank you for your answer.
I tried the command in the terminal before and after I made the change in the settings of the launcher, but in both cases I get no result at all.
I have opened the file ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc in Kate but switchCategoryOnHover is not in that file.
Are you sure the command is correct?

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if that key isnt in the file at all the widget probably isnt writing it (or its a different launcher than kickoff).

paste:
-grep -n ‘plugin=’ ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc | grep -iE ‘kickoff|kicker|menu’

if its org.kde.plasma.kickoff, tick the option → Apply again, then:
-grep -ni ‘switchCategoryOnHover’ ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc ~/.config/plasma* 2>/dev/null

still empty, add it under that kickoff applet [Configuration] block:
switchCategoryOnHover=true
then log out/in once.

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I did find out it is the kickoff menu.
In ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc, in the kickoff part I pasted switchCategoryOnHover=true but even with that text in that file, after log out/in the menu doesn’t change when I hover the mouse over the different parts of it.
Plus, when I open the kickoff menu for editing, the tickbox is still empty. Switch category only works when I manually switch the tickbox to on.