I've been trying to figure out how to disable plasma and the widgets that go along with it.. I frequently trigger these things accidentally and when I'm drunk, I get frustrated easily and punch my CRT. I want to rewind to a simpler time.. the way KDE used to be, not all this hibbidy jibbidy plasma nonsense. I was really hoping it would go away but it hasn't.. So I've been looking around and this is the best answer I could find:

scummos wrote:If you don't want to use plasma you can just use any other desktop manager of your choice, All KDE applications will still work (except for plasma widgets, obviously). A very simple choice is, for example, LXDE.

Is this really the only option, or can these little toys be removed without having to perform surgery on my OS? KDE lite maybe?

Endat wrote:Is this really the only option, or can these little toys be removed without having to perform surgery on my OS? KDE lite maybe?

You can lock the widgets to not accidentally "trigger" them (whatever you mean with that). Right-click on the desktop or left-click on the "cashew" to do that.

While you can of course use KDE applciations outside of KDE/Plasma, there is no way to use "KDE" without Plasma, as Plasma _is_ KDE's workspace.

If you don't want to use widgets, then just don't use them. You can remove them one-by-one.

If you want a desktop like in KDE3, i.e. one that displays the content of the ~/Desktop folder, then switch to the "Desktop Icons" activity, or set the layout to "Folder" in the "Default Desktop Settings".

I accidentally trigger some glowing blue thing in the upper left corner of my screen ALL THE TIME.. It makes all the windows go crazy, i got surprised once and fell out of my chair.

As far as the "cashew" is concerned.. I hate the cashew.. It looks like an undeveloped fetus and it stares at me. I once had a nightmare where I was abducted by alien penguins who probed me by shoving the plasma cashew up my ****

run "kcmshell4 kwincompositing", in the second tab, deactivate the "screen edge" effect

i dropped the plasmoid, but luckily someone conserved the code:
https://github.com/gustavosbarreto/plas ... thecashew/
maybe i should revive it =)

luebking wrote:run "kcmshell4 kwincompositing", in the second tab, deactivate the "screen edge" effect

Or rather disable that particular screen edge action in Systemsettings->Workspace Behavior->Screen Edges.
(run "kcmshell4 kwinscreenedges")

Deactivating the "screen edge" effect will only remove that glow, but will _not_ deactivate the action ("Present Windows").

Wolfies suggestion worked! The top left corner is no longer haunted..

But annoying things still happen, like when I move my mouse wheel on the wrong coordinates and it switches to another window.. or another tab.. or another desktop..

How can I tell it that the mouse wheel is for scrolling only?

Endat wrote:But annoying things still happen, like when I move my mouse wheel on the wrong coordinates and it switches to another window.. or another tab.. or another desktop..

How can I tell it that the mouse wheel is for scrolling only?

To un-configure the desktop switching right-click on the desktop (or click on the "cashew" in the upper right of the screen) and choose "Default Desktop Settings", then switch to "Mouse Actions".

Then there are also mouse wheel configurations in Systemsettings->Window Behavior->Window Behavior->Title Bar, and Window.

Switching windows should only happen if you use the mouse wheel when over the task bar in the panel, I don't think that can be disabled though.
You could of course remove the task manager and add a different one (Icon Tasks maybe?) where it might be configureable or does not happen.

I'm not aware of a way to disable switching tabs.

Btw, as a side-note to your original question, many of the things you asked upto now are actually unrelated to Plasma...