Desktop is empty with no dock or hotbar 2

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@petsam

Latte needs a little delay during start in KDE session. This is happening from time to time and the source of the problem is mostly unrelated to Latte itself.
A workaround is to add sleep 3 or higher number (of seconds) before the latte command in the autostart .desktop file in $HOME/.config/autostart.

For any other noobies stumbling on this thread for the same reasons, this solved it for me. To be more explicit and maybe save some research time later;

I edited ~/.config/autostart/org.kde.latte-dock.desktop and changed the Exec line from Exec=/usr/bin/latte-dock to Exec=sleep 3 && /usr/bin/latte-dock. Thanks @petsam