Little Yellow Boxes
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Ever since my upgrade to KDE 4.7.2, whenever I center click on the background of KDE while running the activity "Search and Launch" I get a small yellow box at the bottom of the screen, just above the panel. Does anyone know what these boxes are (i.e. what application they are associated with), or how to get rid of them? They appear to be part of some kind of note system; right clicking them gives an editing menu; the color is the same as a box generated by Knotes.
These little windows can't be resized or moved, while windows generated by using the menu got by right or center clicking the Knote icon in the tray have a partial border at the top which can be used to drag them, can be resized, and have a partial border at the bottom which generates a menu when right clicked that has a function that deletes them (among other functions). Because I have a slight tremor in my fingers, I have now accumulated 27 of these boxes and 2 small small Konqueror icons. System is Fedora 16 running on x86_64 hardware. |
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Can you provide a screenshot showing the issue?
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Those are note plasmoids - By default the middle-click behavior of the desktop is to add a new note plasmoid with the current contents of the clipboard (which you can configure by right-clicking on the desktop -> configure <desktop type> -> Mouse Actions).
On the default desktop activity type and the folder-view activity type, they appear as normal plasmoids with a handle that pops up on the side that you can use to resize/move/close the plasmoid. It looks like there's some bug in the Search and Launch activity that presents them incorrectly (I'm able to reproduce on (k)ubuntu 10.04, KDE 4.5). I'm not sure if there is a way to remove plasmoids other than using the close button in the handle while plasma is running. One option is to close plasma-desktop (Ctrl+Esc to open the process monitor, select plasma-desktop and click End Process), open up ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc and find and remove the entries with plugin=plasma_applet_notes (making sure to remove the [Containments][x][Applets][y] with its corresponding [Containments][x][Applets][y][Configuration] sections, make a backup before making any changes in case you accidentally bork something), then restart plasma-desktop (use Alt+F2 to open krunner, and run: plasma-desktop).
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Love to. How do I do it? Is it possible to attach something to a posting, or must I upload the image to a public server? Thanks - jon |
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Thanks airdrik. I'll investigate later, when I have more time.
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Yes. Every time I center click on the background, a pair of entries appears in the file ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc looking like this:
Maybe this will mean something to somebody, particularly the line immutability=1 |
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Those are plasma's configuration entries for the note widgets: the first section tells plasma what widget to put and where, the second is the widget-specific configuation.
I'm sure what exactly the immutability=1 line means - I added a note widget to a regular desktop activity and it still had the immutability=1, but it still had the widget handle and I was able to remove it using the close button in the widget handle. You can safely remove those pairs of sections while plasma-desktop isn't running, and when you start plasma-desktop again the notes (little yellow boxes) will go away. You can also change the activity type to a regular desktop (right-click on background -> configure Search and Launch -> Activity -> change Type to Desktop) and the notes will be displayed as regular note widgets, with widget handles that you can use to remove them. You can then change the activity back to Search and Launch in the same manner. Of course this does reveal a bug in the Search and Launch activity (containment?). It doesn't allow adding widgets using the add widget dialog, but you can still add notes using the paste mouse action. Assuming that the goal is to not allow any widgets on a Search and Launch activity (since they are always displayed small along the bottom of the screen, above the panel), they should disallow using the paste mouse action as well (and put in a safe-guard against changing an activity to a Search and Launch activity if the activity has any plasmoids).
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Unfortunately I can't follow your advice about changing to a regular desktop, since in my version of KDE (4.7.3) right-click on background -> configure Search and Launch -> Activity doesn't exist; there is no option "Activity" at this level. I can change Activities by clicking on a line of colored balls in the panel; when I do this and change the current activity to (say) "Desktop Icons" no notes widgets appear anywhere that I have found. I have filed this as a bug at the KDE Bugzilla namely https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286765 . Enjoy. |
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