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On Sunday 28 Dec 2014 10:35:48 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Sunday 28 December 2014 09:19:22 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > What you can do is make Activities go away and never impinge on your |
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> > life, that's what I do. I've had KDE here for years and like you never |
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> > grokked what it even is when it first hit early in 4.x. I'm a grumpy old |
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> > far, I like my 6 virtual desktops in 2 rows of three, I like to launch |
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> > the apps myself I known I'm going to use now, and I like global session |
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> > management for apps I always use all the time (like Konsole). I don't |
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> > like Activities. |
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> > |
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> > I made them go away and have been using the same KDE config ever since |
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> > quite happily. IIRC all it really took was to remove the icon[1] from |
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> > the panel, and maybe disable some keyboard shortcuts. Activities hasn't |
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> > appeared here for years now, I'd forgotten all about them till this |
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> > thread showed up :-) |
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> > |
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> > Anyway, hope this helps |
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> > |
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> > [1] The icon is the one with three small overlapping circles IIRC |
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> Hmm. I can't see a way to remove that icon - only the whole panel, which |
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> seems like a bad idea. This link shows a painless way to discover what |
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> happens if you do that: |
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> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/kde-running-without-pl |
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> asma-desktop-activities-disabled-848517/ |
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> In short, an empty, black desktop. No panel, no way of starting a program |
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> other than by name with KRunner. |
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> I did find some keyboard short-cuts though, under Plasma Desktop Shell in |
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> Global Keyboard Shortcuts, which is under Shortcuts and Gestures in System |
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> Settings. I removed all short-cuts that had Activities in the name. |
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> It seems likely that accidentally hitting one of those short-cuts is the |
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> cause of much of the woe over Activities. |
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> So yes, Alan, you did help by setting me off again, but no you didn't |
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> otherwise :-) |
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I'm not sure I understand - what shortcuts cause problems with Activities? I |
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have removed the icon on a KDE desktop here and I don't think users have |
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noticed any problem with Activities; but they wouldn't really know what |
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Activities is, so any problem may go unreported. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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