Multiple desktops disappear after reboot

[wizard10000]

Thanks wizard1000. You were right - the file is owned by root and therefore locked. I tried editing it using sudo kate ~/.config/kwinrc in the following way but it didn't work either:

...Is there something else I am missing?

Possibly. Does root still own the file? As root, right-click the file and change user and group ownership to your user account.

Snowhog's chown fix should have resolved this. Again, here it is - as a normal user -

cd ~
sudo chown -R yourusername:yourusername *

That oughtta fix it. Good luck

edit: Missed your other question. root shouldn't own *anything* in your home directory. all files in your home directory should be owned by you

[sanwablo]

Thanks wizard1000, you were right - the file was owned by root and therefore locked.

I changed the ownership to user and now settings are persistent.

Should I leave it as is or is it advisable to set the ownership back to root?

[wizard10000]

Thinking aloud, I wonder if he's loading a saved session and if that would override his virtual desktop settings?

This particular setting is stored in ~/.config/kwinrc - I'd look at file permissions and see if the file is actually being changed.

Hope this helps -

[sanwablo]

Sounds 'maybe' like you have a ownership problem within your home directory.

Open a konsole and verify you are in your user home directory (you should be). Then, and only then, type:

sudo chown -R [I]yourusername:yourusername [/I]*

Replace yourusername with your login username. Press Enter to execute the command.

Example: If your login username is bigjohn, the command would be sudo chown -R bigjohn:bigjohn *

Exit the konsole and logout/reboot.

Hi Snowhog, thanks for your reply. I'm afraid that didn't work - the Virtual Desktop configuration was reset after restart. Do you know where those settings are stored? Are they somewhere in ~/.config?

[Snowhog]

Sounds 'maybe' like you have a ownership problem within your home directory.

Open a konsole and verify you are in your user home directory (you should be). Then, and only then, type:

sudo chown -R [I]yourusername:yourusername [/I]*

Replace yourusername with your login username. Press Enter to execute the command.

Example: If your login username is bigjohn, the command would be sudo chown -R bigjohn:bigjohn *

Exit the konsole and logout/reboot.

[sanwablo]

I just got a new laptop and am now transitioning from Xfce to KDE.

I installed Kubuntu 16.04 on it a few days ago, along with all updates (sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade).

The multiple desktop configuration (4 desktops, 2 rows) is reset to default every time I reboot the system. Is there any way of fixing this, like e.g. directly editing the file where that configuration is stored?