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

[Duncan]

René J.V. Bertin posted on Tue, 16 Aug 2022 17:54:06 +0200 as excerpted:

> 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).

I believe you're correct.  It's also likely that plasma(5?)-desktop (and 
perhaps other optional/addon packages like kdeplasma-addons) would need 
uninstalled as well, as it surely deps on plasma-workspace.

> 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).

Along the same lines but different -- more drastic visually but less of a 
change from kde/plasma in general -- there's the option to actually 
terminate plasmashell and thus the desktop, while keeping the rest of 
plasma's system services (including krunner aka the open dialog to run 
apps, kwin to manage windows, global hotkeys, hardware detection and 
sound...) running as-is.

>From krunner "killall plasmashell" (without the quotes) should do it.  To 
get it back, just "plasmashell".

Of course without plasmashell running you won't have your desktop 
wallpaper or widgets, or your panels with their widgets, which means no 
launch menus, etc (unless you run some third-party launcher).  But as long 
as you know the name of the apps you want to run, krunner (the open 
dialog) should still work using its normal hotkey (alt-F2 IIRC, tho I 
could be wrong as I've run with custom hotkeys so long IDR what the 
originals are), and you can use it to open konsole if you want a terminal 
window to launch things from.

This works because plasma is split up into various components that can 
continue to function even if another component freezes/crashes, thus 
allowing recovery from component crashes without a full logout/login or 
reboot cycle.

The drawback is that without plasmashell you'll just have a bare-screen-
black background and will be missing the small but for some workflows 
vital minor services (like the notifications stuff) that plasmashell 
provices so most people won't like to run that way in general, but it 
should reduce resource usage quite a bit, and if you're running full-
screen apps you don't normally see the desktop anyway and may not miss it 
while you're busy with other things.  And it's a quick "plasmashell" in 
krunner restartable again when needed.

Of course you have to know the names of the apps you normally run in 
ordered to use krunner/konsole to run them.  But I guess most people 
figure that out relatively quickly, and some end up using krunner or 
hotkeys they've configured to launch stuff most of the time after that 
because it's so much quicker, and then only using the actual menu for 
stuff they don't run often enough to have memorized the name yet. 
Certainly that's the way it is here.

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