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KDE Plasma System Information

$ kinfo
Operating System: Gentoo Linux 2.18
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.22.0
Qt Version: 6.10.2
Kernel Version: 6.12.58-gentoo-x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz
Memory: 24 GiB of RAM (22.9 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: Intel® HD Graphics 530

Best way to check version of plasma-desktop

kinfo 2>/dev/null | grep -i plasma

Print plasma-version

plasmashell --version 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $2}'

Print plasma-version and include errors if there is any

plasmashell --version 2>~/plasmashell-version-warnings.log | awk '{print $2}'

Open a website by default browser

kde-open https://google.com

Recover Plasma 6 panel icons after a plasmashell crash (no logout required)

Screnshot

killall plasmashell
rm -rf ~/.cache/icon-cache.kcache
rm -rf ~/.cache/plasma*
rm -rf ~/.cache/kioexec*
plasmashell --replace &
disown

Recover Plasma 5 panel icons after a plasmashell crash (no logout required)

killall plasmashell
rm -rf ~/.cache/icon-cache.kcache
rm -rf ~/.cache/plasma*
rm -rf ~/.cache/kioexec*
kquitapp5 plasmashell
plasmashell --replace &
disown