As the title says, I have a Toshiba Satellite P55t-B5154 with 12GB RAM and a 2TB drive, multi-booting Win 10, LM 18 xfce, LM 18 KDE, Kaos, and now KDE Neon. I use rEFInd for my boot manager.

Each OS has its own quirks/problems, and this thread is mostly me exploring Neon, since Mint 19 has dropped KDE support.

The first thing to fix is the issue of different wallpapers and widgets on each virtual desktop. The workaround for this is by using different Activities instead of desktops.

This thread is me exploring and recording my findings, good, bad, and indifferent in one location. If anyone can help me with my problems, then great, I value the input. I tend to find/create problems for myself that don't seem to affect a lot of people and either solve the problems myself or fail and move on to another OS.

Install So, first up, installation went fairly smoothly. I set up four Activities, each with only one virtual desktop, and then set my scroll-wheel to change to the next Activity. You have to do this setting in every Activity. Then, of course, you can change the wallpaper in each Activity at whim.

.desktop files Next, I wanted to set up my shortcuts. Now, I have several different Firefox profiles I use for different purposes. For instance, I have my regular instance, with my password manager, Google and Gmail tools, etc. There is another that I use specifically for visiting webcomics, which is more stripped down. Another is locked down, specifically for use when I'm on foreign networks.

To use these, I had set up some .desktop files way back in the day (I think like '08 when Unity first came out) which I have been using since. Custom icons, the works. I installed my shortcuts in ~/.local/share/applications and also put my custom icons in ~/.icons (necessary to do this first, since the .desktop files refer to this folder and if the icons aren't there, the icons tend to be invisible on the desktop.)

I had a problem at first with the icons being universal between the activities. This turned out to be due to the default Desktop Layout being set to Folder. Changing this to Desktop in each Activity allows me to place my icons where I want and each desktop (Activity) has its own set of icons.

Dolphin For some reason, the Root Actions submenu was dropped some time ago, and never restored. The solution is to download the Root Actions Tool, copy the dolphin-KDE4 files to ~/.local/share/kservices5/ServiceMenus folder (the last two folders had to be manually created) and then made executable.