Marcelo Magno T. Sales posted on Thu, 19 Mar 2015 18:45:15 -0300 as
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I have several widgets on my desktop: nextwallpaper, yawp, stockquote
(three instances of this one) and a network monitor. Suddenly, two of
them, yawp and one of the stockquote instances, stopped showing that
lateral setup tab which allows you to move, resize or remove the widget
from the desktop. Widgets are unlocked and, except for these two, all of
them show the tab when I hover the mouse over them, including the other
two instances of stockquote.
I would like to remove and re-add the problematic widgets to see if they
go back to normal behavior, but can't find a way to remove them. Other
than not displaying the setup tab, both widgets are working fine.
Any idea on how to solve this?
I'm running KDE 4.14.1 on Kubuntu 14.10.
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As to the question...
FWIW, I actually use a couple instances of yawp here, set to different
locations, but don't use any of the other plasmoids you mentioned. So
I'll use it as the common ground.
While I've not seen this particularly curious behavior before, I do have
some suggestions and know where to find these settings in the text-based
config files as well, which should help as a last resort. I've had to
directly edit the config files myself for other issues, and now keep both
a backup copy and the operational copy set read-only when I'm not making
specific changes, so it can't be damaged. I'd suggest doing likewise, as
the file in question, while text, has a quite complex structure making it
not the easiest thing in the world to directly edit.
You clarified that widgets (also called plasmoids) are unlocked and that
other plasmoids, including other instances of one of the problematic
ones, show the floating config tabs on hover. Thanks. I agree, it's
very strange that some show the tabs but not others...
Unfortunately, other than toggling the locked state and restarting plasma-
desktop (presuming you have plasma set to desktop, otherwise plasma-
netbook, which I'm less familiar with) a few times in an effort to try to
get the config tabs back, I don't have any further suggestions to try on
that attack angle.
Which leaves three others I know of to try...
Simplest, if it works, and if it doesn't you should at least get a bit
more information about what's going on, at least with yawp, which I know
has this option. (Not sure about the stock plasmoids.) ...
With plasmoids on the desktop (as opposed to on a panel, where they don't
show the config tab either, so I'll assume yours are on the desktop, tho
you didn't say), with plasma unlocked, many plasmoids (including yawp)
have a context menu (traditionally displayed on right-click) with among
other things, a remove this plasmoid (remove this yawp, for yawp)
entry. The icon beside the entry should be a red X, for removal.
If you can see that on the context menu for the plasmoids in question,
hopefully that'll remove them. Please restart plasma (or logout/in to
restart it, or quit and restart X, or restart the computer) and verify
whether your changes held.
If not, please compare with the context menu where the config tab DOES
appear. Is that entry showing up there?
Since this option only shows up when widgets are unlocked, if it's
showing up on the one that shows the config tab but not the other one,
then the problem must be that the problem plasmoids aren't getting the
message that plasma is unlocked, for whatever reason.
If it's not showing up in either the plasmoids with the tab or the ones
without, then you're experiencing some other sort of plasmoid bug.
In either case, while a clue to the base problem, if that entry isn't
showing up, you can't remove the plasmoids that way, and will likely have
to resort to one of the other two, both of which are more intensive.
Option two is to configure a replacement activity and delete the current
activity containing the plasmoids you can't remove on their own. With
plasma unlocked, either context-click on the desktop (if you have
activities configured to show up in the desktop context menu) or click on
the desktop's toolbox icon and select activities. Add a new one, and
