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How do I remove widgets from KDE desktop?
delete the widget from the panel With the slide out menu open, hover over the widget that you want to remove or delete. You will see a small menu that displays the widget name and two buttons. Click on the button with the red cross on the right hand side to delete the widget from the panel.
How do I reset my KDE Plasma desktop?
For quick reference, I’m giving the steps below.
- Log out of your kde desktop.
- Open a console session by pressing Ctrl + Alt + F1.
- Give your username and password.
- Run rm -rf .kde/share/config/plasma-*
- now you can log out of the console session by logout command or pressing Ctrl + D.
Can I remove KDE Plasma desktop?
Yes, uninstall the KDE desktop of our team, we will open a new terminal and type the following line: sudo apt-get remove –purge kubuntu-desktop kde-standard language-pack-kde-en.
How do I kill a process in KDE?
In KDE, run KSysGuard (many distributions also use Ctrl-Esc). Just click on the tab, “ProcessTable”, select the item, and click “Kill”. In Gnome, open System Monitor (aka Gnome System Monitor), select the “Processes” tab, select the item, and hit “End Process”.
How do I remove desktop panel?
You can also right click on the hamburger menu button while the slide out is open to see the remove or delete panel. The keyboard shortcut to remove the panel is Alt+D, Alt+R.
How do I restart my Kubuntu desktop?
Use the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace shortcut keys to restart KDE. (See the section called “Preventing the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace shortcut keys from restarting X” to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.)
How do I restart my Linux desktop environment?
If your desktop can still respond to your keyboard, press Alt + F2 , type the single letter r on the pop-up window, and press Enter. This will restart your desktop environment without much fuss.
How to create a plasma widget in KDE?
Learn how to create a KDE Plasma Widget. The KDE wiki has a Getting Started and Hello World tutorial which you can read as well. To properly fork the widget, rename the new folder, then edit the X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name in the metadata.desktop file to match the new folder name.
How do I restore my KDE desktop to default?
To reset you user’s KDE modifications to defaults open a terminal and type. mv ~/.kde4 ~/.kde4.old. Log off and log back in and all the KDE settings will be recreated fresh. That will move the folder where KDE keeps his settings in to another folder with .old in the end of the name.
Where do I find the default widgets in plasma?
The default widgets shipped with KDE are installed to /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/. X-KDE-PluginInfo-Category is the category the widget can be filtered with in the widget list.
How to filter a widget in X-KDE?
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Category is the category the widget can be filtered with in the widget list. A list of category names can be found here. X-KDE-ServiceTypes, X-Plasma-API, and X-Plasma-MainScript are also needed to just define that this package is a plasma widget, and where it’s entry point is.