yeah if grep icon is empty the plasmoid files just arent on disk
-apt-cache search icontasks
-apt-cache search taskmanager | rg -i plasma
-dpkg -L plasma-desktop | rg -i ‘task|icon’
-sudo apt install --reinstall plasma-desktop plasma-workspace plasma-widgets-addons
if apt-cache search icontasks is empty too that resolute plasma build probably never shipped the widget package bit
**i ran these after the reinstall
Alloone@CREALTY**:~$ apt-cache search icontasks
Alloone@CREALTY:~$ apt-cache search taskmanager | rg -i plasma
libtaskmanager6 - Plasma Workspace task manager library
Alloone@CREALTY:~$ dpkg -L plasma-desktop | rg -i ‘task|icon’
Command ‘icon’’ not found, did you mean:
command ‘iconx’ from deb iconx (9.5.25a-2)
command ‘iconv’ from deb libc-bin (2.43-2ubuntu2)
command ‘icont’ from deb icont (9.5.25a-2)
command ‘icon’ from deb icont (9.5.25a-2)
Try: sudo apt install
Alloone@CREALTY:~$ dpkg -L plasma-desktop | rg -i ‘task|icon
Command ‘icon’ not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install icont
I guess the ’ characters are supposed to be ' (i.e. straight single quotes, not curly quotes).
When copy-pasting into Discourse, it’s best to use preformatted text to avoid undesired auto-conversions like this.
thanks to pg-tips, i typed it out correct and got;
Alloone@CREALTY:~$ dpkg -L plasma-desktop | rg -i ‘task|icon’
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt6/plugins/plasma/applets/org.kde.plasma.taskmanager.so
is it possible to download the icons-only widget as a file so i can use the “install from file” option?
should i contact the kde devs?
yeah u can install from file, store.kde.org wont help if the package never shipped the plasmoid tho
grab icontasks from the plasma-desktop tree:
-plasma-desktop/applets/icontasks at master · KDE/plasma-desktop · GitHub
-download the folder (Code → Download ZIP, then pull applets/icontasks out)
-mkdir -p ~/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids
-cp -a icontasks ~/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.icontasks
-ls ~/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.icontasks/metadata.json
-plasmashell --replace &
then Add Widgets → search icons-only
if metadata.json is missing from that zip path ur on the wrong folder. apt-cache search icontasks being empty on resolute is a packaging hole, worth a kubuntu bug too
At this point, I think your best bet is reinstalling the OS and taking it as a learning experience: don’t randomly delete system files in an attempt to fix problems. It will only cause new ones!
You might also try using a distro that includes some kind of built-in system rollback functionality, which makes it really easy to recover from an issue like this.
Unless the rest of your system is also running git master versions of everything, you’ve just put a potential binary incompatibility time bomb on your system, because the Task Manager you’ve just manually installed is not guaranteed to be compatible with the system-installed Plasma. So it may work for a while and then stop working. Or random parts of it may not work.
And because you put it in ~/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids, it will continue to override the system-installed version of the Task Manager once your package manager gets you the correct version, drifting ever farther out of sync with the rest of Plasma.
I recommend removing ~/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.icontasks either now, or else the moment you get a system upgrade that includes a new version of Plasma.
