Welcome Center appears on every boot, how do you switch it off

[astrojim]

Hi All,

The welcome center start on each boot. How can I stop it appearing again? I upgraded from kubuntu 24.04 to 24.10 with no issues.

My guess is there is a file/config which needs setting to stop it.

Thanks for the help

[Beerislife]

Look in System Settings and scroll down to Autostart, perhaps it has an entry in there?

[claydoh]

Make sure you are 'skipping' it as opposed to just Xing it out.

My first thought is it may be stuck in the saved desktop session somehow. You might try setting things to start with an empty session for a login or two, and see it that clears it out. I was having that issue with Timeshift's GUI recently.

[astrojim]

Thanks guys. I've checked autostart its not there. Also I am skipping. And I've tried an empty session. Its still appearing every boot.

Does anyone know which config file/value to hack to make it stop.

[claydoh]

There is a plasma-welcomerc in config, but it doesn't have much that seems relevant


this is an old bug since fixed, supposedly.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466475

My file does NOT contain the "ShouldShow=false" option, and it does not run at login for me.

[astrojim]

Thanks claydoh h, that worked.

My ~/.config/plasma-welcomerc contained this:

​[General]
LastSeenVersion=6.1.5

I am running plasma 6.1.5

I added ShouldShow to make it:

[General]
LastSeenVersion=6.1.5
ShouldShow=false

And last boot it did not appear!

I suppose the obvious question is why isn't the app adding this line itself when I hit skip?....

Looks like its related to, or is: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489545