Hi,

Is there a way to make a standard desktop applet appear on demand? World Clock, for instance: what if I don't want it to sit right on the desktop at all times?

you could place it in the system tray with visibility = hidden
depending on your needs you could place it onto a different virt desktop and then switch when you need to see/use it
you could place it in a new panel set to auto hide

google01103 wrote:you could place it in the system tray with visibility = hidden
depending on your needs you could place it onto a different virt desktop and then switch when you need to see/use it
you could place it in a new panel set to auto hide

(1) Sounds interesting. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to put the World Clock into the tray.
(2) A plasma appears on all the virtual desktops. Is there a way to limit it to a particular desktop?
(3) The panel option tried and found not quite satisfactory.

1) was stupid of me - wrote faster than I thought, it was early and hadn't any caffeine

2) systemsettings -> workspace behavior -> virtual desktops -> different widgets for each desktop

You could also use the widget dashboard (accessible via Ctrl + F12) which can be configured to be independent of your desktop widget.

bcooksley wrote:You could also use the widget dashboard (accessible via Ctrl + F12) which can be configured to be independent of your desktop widget.

that would be this:

Can the plasmoid be started (and killed) via a command (in a script)?
If so the this can be done using two scripts.
The first to start the plasmoid (world clock).
The second, autostarted and loaded into the sys_tray to start / kill the first script.

Plasma applets all run as part of the same process, and so therefore cannot be killed or started like regular processes. You could use the plasma-windowed application to run a separate container for the applet though if you wanted to follow that approach.

http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/?content=117542
Can be shown/hidden by shortcut or active screen corner.