On Friday, 23 October 2020 12:32:39 BST Patrick Wigmore wrote:
> I constantly use middle click to paste things, but it never would have
> occurred to me that pasting text onto the desktop might have this
> effect.
It never used to.
> It turns out that this note-pasting "feature" is present in (four-
> year-old) plasmashell 5.5.5, but only when I have my widgets unlocked.
> If the widgets are locked, then it doesn't create the new notes
> widget. I suppose that makes some sense, because you can't normally
> add or remove a widget when the widgets are locked, so it would be odd
> to make an exception for post-it notes.
I'm running Kubuntu 20.04 which installs 5.18.5.
> I never encountered the note-pasting feature before, because I leave
> the widgets locked after I have got them set up the way I like.
Unfortunately, the widgets lock functionality seems to have been removed in
5.18.5.
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