On Thursday 19 December 2024 12:01:43 GMT I wrote:

> Is any other plasma user still having trouble starting it with the previous
> arrangement of desktops and programs?
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471977 refers.

Turns out it's a known problem with wayland, which doesn't yet have such a
feature. I'm now recompiling 140 packages with USE=-wayland.

Watch this space...

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Regards,
Peter.