Disabling plasma desktop background

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday, 2011-01-20, Stephen Kell wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can I turn off the plasma desktop background (i.e. the window that gets
> mapped over the root window) without killing plasma?
> 
> I want to use plasma mainly for the applets like knetworkmanager, and
> don't want to lose access to my plain old X11 root window.  I tried
> "remove this desktop activity" but in the case of the desktop background
> it appears to do nothing. This is in KDE 4.4.2 (Ubuntu Lucid) --
> apologies if there are relevant changes in subsequent versions.

Very good question.

I think in Plasma terminology all areas which can hold widgets are called 
containments.
I had a look into plasma-desktop-appletsrc and there seems to one for the 
desktop (has a  line like plugin=desktop).

You could try removing that containment from your config.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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