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

[Duncan]

René J.V. Bertin posted on Sat, 20 Aug 2022 01:05:04 +0200 as excerpted:

> On Friday August 19 2022 21:43:20 Duncan wrote:
> 
>>From krunner "killall plasmashell" (without the quotes) should do it. 
>>To get it back, just "plasmashell".
> 
> You will probably find that this logs you off (or drops you back to the
> console) ;)

??  It never[1] has here, not on X, and not on wayland.

In fact, I deliberately use the quit plasmashell and restart it 
(immediately or later) tactic somewhat frequently, including when I have 
made some changes to the plasmashell config and wish to ensure they stick.
[2]

Just to be sure that hadn't changed recently I actually quit plasmashell 
while writing this up and am now running without it.  I'll restart it in a 
bit, probably after I send this...

OTOH, while on X the same thing can be done with kwin (kwin_x11), on 
wayland that doesn't work because kwin (kwin_wayland) actually provides 
the wayland server implementation as well, and quitting that quits the 
entire session (which should restart, but it means losing any unsaved work 
in your wayland and xwayland apps).

And killing the session (startplasma* or plasma_session) will land you 
back at the login or CLI terminal prompt, depending on how you start 
plasma (from a *DM graphical login manager, or from the terminal prompt).

But plasmashell, no.  That can be safely killed without killing the 
session (other running apps should remain), at least here, and I must 
wonder what your distro is doing if you can't safely kill it there.

So maybe you were thinking about kwin_wayland or the session, not 
plasmashell?

That said, it's always possible (and recommended) to try it yourself in a 
fresh session or at least without any unsaved data the first time, just to 
be sure.  But I'd sure like to see the details of any behavior contrary to 
what I've described above, because as I said, it has worked that way for 
me since the kde3 era so for more than 20 years now, and continues to do 
so.

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[1]  Well, not since sometime early in the kde3 era anyway (when IIRC it 
was kicker, and in the kde4 era simply plasma, not plasmashell), not sure 
before that.

[2] At least one bug was "recently" (as in perhaps six months ago) fixed 
where plasmashell wouldn't save changes to its config until it was 
properly shutdown -- if it or the entire system crashed before that, the 
changes wouldn't be written.

Meanwhile, because I run live-git-master it isn't always as stable as 
releases are supposed to be, so ensuring any config changes one intends to 
last longer than the currently running application instance are written to 
disk ASAP is wise.

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