Okay I'm back sorry. Rene:
> - your distro packages the touch-interface in an optional package. > Uninstall that. Plasma should lose support for using your panel for its own > features but you still have the device drivers installed so it should still > work at the system level > - set up another DE and use that instead of Plasma. Most environments > allow changing the window manager so if you're fond of KWin and its widget > styling you can still use that. And of course your KDE applications will > continue to work. > I did #1 as asked before I found out plasma-workspace is a package that existed, and I didn't get anywhere with this. I thought I've uninstalled a package that seemed like it included the gesture (couldn't remember what that package was, but it was plasma-touch related), but that did not work. What if I just uninstalled plasma5-workspace as a package? lol I'm doing #2 as I type. Duncan: > Meanwhile, I /think/ you should be able to trigger it too as I'm guessing > it's not touch-specific (tho primarily targeted at touch). Does a click- > and-hold on the plasmashell desktop with your presumably regular (or at > least not touch-device) mouse trigger edit mode? I'm guessing it does. > It should. Every fresh install as far as I know with KDE Plasma included (different distros like Manjaro, Void, Fedora, OpenSUSE), it is still very much there. On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 6:55 AM Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > René J.V. Bertin posted on Tue, 16 Aug 2022 12:08:07 +0200 as excerpted: > > > On Tuesday August 16 2022 06:50:26 Duncan wrote: > > > >>But because it's a behavior clicking on the desktop itself, not > >>something in kwin, etc, I'd say it's almost certainly coded in either > >>plasma- workspace or plasma-desktop. > > > > Doesn't it happen in all applications? > > No. It only happens (at least for me) when long-clicking on the desktop. > Even long-clicking on a panel (which is of course plasmashell too) doesn't > trigger it. It has to be the desktop. > > I agree the OP made it seem to be in all apps and I'd have thought that if > I hadn't reproduced it only on the desktop, here, but that's not what I'm > seeing. If it /is/ in all apps for him, wow, that *would* be a problem! > > Meanwhile, I /think/ you should be able to trigger it too as I'm guessing > it's not touch-specific (tho primarily targeted at touch). Does a click- > and-hold on the plasmashell desktop with your presumably regular (or at > least not touch-device) mouse trigger edit mode? I'm guessing it does. > > -- > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- > and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman > >