A way to disable the long-left mouse click shortcut to enter "Edit Mode" / modifying widgets?

Koeame koeame0 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 16 20:30:23 BST 2022


>
> 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 <rjvbertin at 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 <rjvbertin at 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
> >>
>
>
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