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