I recently bought an external monitor to complement my laptop and after some troubles setting the thing up I think I have a working setup now.

The problem is that in the process there are a lot of desktops now (or Activities as they're called, I think), instead of two (one for my laptop's LCD screen and for the External monitor)

I know you can zoom out, unlock the widgets and remove desktops (as is written in the KDE Userbase FAQ) and have done that, but it still leaves me with this mess.

I've tried to edit both plasmarc and plasma-appletsrc in ~/.kde4/share/config and remove the relevant Containments and ViewIds, but for some reason my changes aren't picked up when I logout and login again, even with the option to begin an empty session on login.

Does anybody know how to clean up all those orphaned desktops?

The contents of my plasmarc, if this is of any help at all:

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[Colors]
CurrentPalette=Forty Colors

[DownloadDialog Settings]
Height 800=400
Width 1280=700

[KFileDialog Settings]
Height 1050=400
Height 800=400
Recent Files[$e]=
Width 1280=640
Width 1680=640

[PlasmaViews][5]
Alignment=132
Offset=0

[ViewIds]
28=3
30=5
50=4


And the plasma-appletsrc:

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[Containments][22]
formfactor=0
geometry=1286,0,1,1
immutability=1
location=0
plugin=desktop
screen=-1
wallpaper=/usr/share/wallpapers/Blue_Curl/contents/images/1920x1200.jpg
zvalue=0

[Containments][27]
formfactor=0
geometry=4265,0,1680,1050
immutability=1
location=0
plugin=desktop
screen=-1
wallpaper=/usr/share/wallpapers/Blue_Curl/contents/images/1920x1200.jpg
zvalue=0

[Containments][28]
backgroundmode=0
formfactor=0
geometry=0,1056,1680,1050
immutability=1
location=0
plugin=desktop
screen=1
selected=/usr/share/wallpapers/Blue_Curl/contents/images/1920x1200.jpg
wallpaper=/usr/share/wallpapers/Blue_Curl/contents/images/1920x1200.jpg
wallpapercolor=47,47,38
wallpaperposition=2
zvalue=0

[Containments][30]
formfactor=2
geometry=0,-32,1654,26
immutability=1
location=4
plugin=panel
screen=1
zvalue=150

[Containments][30][Applets][31]
geometry=34,8,22,22
immutability=1
plugin=quickaccess
zvalue=0

[Containments][30][Applets][32]
geometry=8,8,22,22
immutability=1
plugin=showdesktop
zvalue=0

[Containments][30][Applets][33]
geometry=112,8,1309,22
immutability=1
plugin=tasks
zvalue=0

[Containments][30][Applets][35]
geometry=1555,8,11,22
immutability=1
plugin=lockout
zvalue=0

[Containments][30][Applets][36]
geometry=1570,8,50,22
immutability=1
plugin=digital-clock
zvalue=0

[Containments][30][Applets][37]
geometry=86,8,22,22
immutability=1
plugin=launcher
zvalue=0

[Containments][30][Applets][40]
geometry=60,8,22,22
immutability=1
plugin=katesession
zvalue=0

[Containments][30][Applets][41]
geometry=1529,8,22,22
immutability=1
plugin=notifier
zvalue=0

[Containments][30][Applets][44]
geometry=1425,8,100,22
immutability=1
plugin=systemtray
zvalue=0

[Containments][30][Applets][46]
geometry=1624,8,22,22
immutability=1
plugin=battery
zvalue=0

[Containments][30][Applets][46][Configuration]
showBatteryString=true
style=1

[Containments][30][Configuration]
maximumSize=1654,26
minimumSize=1630,26

[Containments][47]
formfactor=0
geometry=0,0,1,1
immutability=1
location=0
plugin=desktop
screen=-1
wallpaper=/usr/share/wallpapers/Blue_Curl/contents/images/1920x1200.jpg
zvalue=0

[Containments][48]
formfactor=0
geometry=39,0,1,1
immutability=1
location=0
plugin=desktop
screen=-1
wallpaper=/usr/share/wallpapers/Blue_Curl/contents/images/1920x1200.jpg
zvalue=0

[Containments][49]
formfactor=0
geometry=78,0,1,1
immutability=1
location=0
plugin=desktop
screen=-1
wallpaper=/usr/share/wallpapers/Blue_Curl/contents/images/1920x1200.jpg
zvalue=0

[Containments][50]
backgroundmode=0
formfactor=0
geometry=1293,0,1280,800
immutability=1
location=0
plugin=desktop
screen=0
selected=/usr/share/wallpapers/Blue_Curl/contents/images/1920x1200.jpg
wallpaper=/usr/share/wallpapers/Blue_Curl/contents/images/1920x1200.jpg
wallpapercolor=224,223,222
wallpaperposition=2
zvalue=0

[General]
immutability=2


The empty session has nothin to do with that. Did you try to edit these files while logged out or did you edit them while logged in?
Because when you log out, plasma saves the current state, so your changes get lost again.

Errr, it so obvious it hurts. :-S

I did edit those config files during a running KDE session. I've just tried it without KDE, removed the redundant containers and kept the correct ones (28 and 50) and now everything seems to be in order!

Thank you very much! [size=x-small]I'll go and slap myself a bit further for not thinking of logging out first.[/size]