> > If going to another DE solves the issue for you, please do consider filing > a bug report against plasma-desktop (if there isn't one already). >
I probably might figure it out later, because I'm very exhausted right now, but if I don't, could you help me navigate where to report a bug? Thank you. On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 3:07 PM René J.V. Bertin <rjvber...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday August 16 2022 14:12:29 Koeame wrote: > > >May as well try to do this, and it's going slow for me considering I'm > >doing other things, but I'm getting through it. Thank you for all your > help > >into seeing this btw I really appreciate it. > > You're welcome. This is the sort of thing that could drive me crazy too > > If going to another DE solves the issue for you, please do consider filing > a bug report against plasma-desktop (if there isn't one already). The devs > should know that their immature feature drives people away from the Plasma > desktop and that they could at least implement a very basic way to disable > or configure it (meaning editing a configuration file by hand, if writing a > proper GUI is not feasible for now). > > I forgot to mention: in order to make KDE apps look and behave as much as > possible as if they were running on a Plasma desktop session you will > probably have to set 2 environment variables at the desktop shell level (in > the "global" section of your ~/.bashrc should be fine): > KDE_FULL_SESSION=true > KDE_SESSION_VERSION=5 > > If you also chose to use KWin and Dolphin instead of the default window > manager and file explorer apps for that DE you will hardly notice the > difference except in the look & feel of the panels, desktop icons etc. > > R. > > > > >On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 11:54 AM René J.V. Bertin <rjvber...@gmail.com> > >wrote: > > > >> On Tuesday August 16 2022 11:35:44 Koeame wrote: > >> >that package was, but it was plasma-touch related), but that did not > work. > >> >What if I just uninstalled plasma5-workspace as a package? lol > >> > >> That will probably also uninstall most of what gives you the Plasma DE > >> (but I can be wrong). > >> > >> There's an alternative KDE desktop shell which is purely widget-based > (no > >> QML like Plasma uses primarily nowadays I think). You can run that as an > >> alternative to plasmashell. Last time I checked it probably didn't have > an > >> "edit mode" at all. So there's that solution. You may have to build it > >> yourself though, if no one made a PPA for it. > >> > >> If the issue is limited to the desktop it would be easier just to log in > >> to a different DE. It may not look as fancy, but you could actually find > >> your computer more responsive because Plasma isn't exactly low-resource > >> anymore (as far as I can tell). > >> > >> R > >> > >
