Looking for similar threads but coulnt find a solving for my problem. Every time after I log out or restart my costomizations, wallpapers even docks are restored to previous mode. It doesn't save anything and I'm little worried for the stability on my machine. I'm pretty new in Linux overall so any advices are welcomed. Am I doing something wrong ?
I have some questions. There are more experience guys here but maybe this leads you forward.
Is this happening with a fresh install?
Did you tweak or do anything to the system that might cause that?
Did you do a standard install on an empty disk? Without errors?
User configs are stored in your home folder called .config (Folders starting with . are hidden, so you need to display hidden folders to see them)
You can enter this folder with the commend cd ~/.config/ and have a look around.
For some reason your system is not able to write these settings to the config files or something is overwriting them.
I'd try a reinstall, and do a fresh install on a single Drive. It should not be happening, unless its hardware / driver related. I doubt that it is hardware related.
Welcome to the Forums!
Sorry in such a situation, though.
First thing, even though that will most probably not help, plz reboot.
Second thing, after reboot, open up a Terminal window (Konsole) and type ls -l ~
Plz copy-paste the output.
This will allow us to make sure of files/folders permissions in your Home (although I doubt that is the issue but having a good basis to start with is important).
EDIT: Also plz try to answer at best of your knowledge/memory @aegir221 questions.
Yes, I followed the website installation procedure and created a bootable flashdrive with the Garuda downloader. I boot it in my SSD which had only my first and last OS there so I deleted it and installed Garuda. There’s nothing else on that drive.
Not that I’m aware of. No. Anything installed on my system is either from Pamac package manager or the Garuda Asisstant. Only couple of customization tweaks - themes or icons. Nothing else I think.
I get there. I see the content. Should I post it here?There are a lot of things there, but mainly software which I’ve installed.
Maybe I should mention that this is my second clean install in three days. I decided to reinstall it yesterday, because the first time I've maybe over-bloated it with software which I'm not sure that I'm gonna use and overall I wanted to test some stuff (software only. I don't touch hardware stuff which I don't understand). So I just wanted to start over and do it the right way. But no luck for me.
And btw, I think that the first install - things runned smoothly than this one. And I even kept myself this time for installing this and that.
I wonder if for some reason these files don't get written properly and reset themselves or something. They contain a lot of valuable Plasma configuration settings.
Also I should say that my main problem are not even the settings and changes. I don't mind to change my wallpaper or smth every day. The main thing is that I work through anydesk so I use it 5-10 hours every day. My first experiance with Garuda was like 'wow anydesk is flying and I've installed it and other stuff without even use the terminal! thats amazing!'
But now, one reinstall later, it goes back like before. I've wasted around a week in my last distro and now in changing settings and trying to run it without glitches and lags. And I don't want to go back to that miscrosoft thing just for the sake of anydesk.
I am not familiar with UEFI, but it's good you posted that here, if someone knows about this that person will respond.
For your customizations not being saved after a reboot, if I were to have that issue, apart from swearing, here's what I'd do:
Create a new user, logout the main user and log in to the new user. Change say the wallpaper, reboot, log in that new user and see if the wallpaper is there.
If it's there, maybe you have an issue with your main user. This will yield to a different troubleshooting.
If it's not there, google for the symptoms of your issue. There is probably a solution somewhere already for this, I am sure you are not the only one.
Trying to point in some directions that would be beneficial.
If someone else has a good idea what to look for, feel free to add.
Can you, please, recommend me the most clean way to completely purge my SSD with all the files and install Garuda again on clean surface? Is there any way of not reinstalling it on the top of the old OS?
Delete the Partition Table (or each partition individually), click APPLY to proceed, then install with the option ERASE MY DISK from the Garuda Installer.
