My desktop widgets are locked

[texstar]

I can’t remove them, change their size or move them. I also no longer get the configure widgets menu when I right click on the menu icon. I added a second user toid and everything works for toid. Anyone else see this?

[skyfishgoo]

kinfo ?

in plasma 6 i thought there is a “lock desktop” feature that you can toggle to keep widgets from being moved by accident… but i can’t seem to find it on kubuntu 25.10 using distrosea.com

there is also this thread on the topic of locking (and unlocking) widgets, maybe it can help.

How to lock Plasma 6 desktop settings -rather non-standard use case

OK, you’re on some form of linx with KDE Plasma desktop. Open a text editor, make a file called lock.sh paste the following text in the file: #! /bin/bash qdbus6 org.kde.plasmashell /PlasmaShell org.kde.PlasmaShell.evaluateScript ‘lockCorona(!locked)’ exit save the file somewhere convenient, right-click it and in the “properties” menu look for “permissions” and move the slider that says “allow executing file as a program”. Right- click on your desktop, “enter edit mode”, add widget. Look …

[texstar]

Thanks for the reply. I ended up copying/chown the plasma settings from the other user to my main user and fixed the problem. Probably a corrupted configuration file.

Thanks again,

Tex