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KDE's plasma Desktop Environment.

Plasma is the Desktop Environment in KDE Software Compilation. Questions regarding plasma should be those related to the Desktop Environment (panel, widgets, activities view etc), as opposed to the underlying KDE libraries.

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What is a activity in KDE and what can I do with it?

In the top right corner of a standard KDE/Kubuntu installation you'll see this: But seriously, I seem to be unable to understand what those "activities" are and what it would enable me to profit from. It just pops up like an "add widget" screen…
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How to move, resize or remove KDE widgets since Plasma 5.5.5 (xenial)

Until Plasma 5.4.2 (wily) widgets could be unlocked and showed a side menu when hovering over them with the mouse. The side menu allowed moving, resizing and removing the widget. With Plasma 5.5.5 (xenial) the side menu does not appear anymore.
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In KDE Plasma, how can I switch between virtual desktops using Meta + Tab?

I'm using KDE Plasma 5 right now, and I noticed that the keyboard shortcut Meta + Tab is used to switch between Activities, and Alt + Tab is obviously used to switch between windows. I would like to know if there's a similar way to switch between…
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How to deactivate all the desktop effects of KDE permanently?

I am aware that the shortcode of "Shift + Alt + F12" disables all the desktop effects of Kubuntu 15.10. However, is there a way to disable all those effects automatically and permanently in every future session? Objective: Speeding up Kubuntu 15.10…
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Why is plasmashell using 100% cpu?

I'm running Kubuntu 16.04 with KDE 5.5.5 and I've noticed an anomaly in cpu consumption by the plasmashell process. Do you have any idea of the reason?
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Konsole - silence in session 'Default'

Why is my Konsole generating notifications every 10 seconds after a keypress in statusbar "Konsole -- silence in session 'Default'". In "Configure Notifications -- Plasma" I can deselect notifications for "Silence in Monitored Session", but why are…
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Where is Bing's Picture of the Day stored on my system?

In Kubuntu, I set the desktop background as "Bing's Picture of the Day". Some pictures are so good that I desire to store them for further reference. However, the pictures are not located within ~/Pictures. Where are these background images saved?
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How to trigger network-manager autoconnect?

Let's say that network-manager is connected to specific Wi-Fi network. When I click "Disconnect" via GUI from it then it never connects back. But when I close the laptop lid, then open it back (so that system suspends and resumes) then…
Te Ri
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How to stop the icon jumping effect in kubuntu?

the desktop-jump-effect Do i need to use kcmshell5 for it? I am using plasma 5.5.5. and kubuntu 16.04.
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How to restart alt+f2 dialog in kde after xkill?

The dialog that appears when I press Alt+F2 froze (what is it called? minicli?), I then proceeded to kill it by clicking it after running the command xkill, this was the message: xkill: killing creator of resource 0x240017b I then tried…
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GTK+ in Kubuntu apps look bad

I have installed Evolution email client on Kubuntu 11.10 and it's not so cute as expected. Eclipse also looks bad. I have the GTK+ Appearance plugin in KDE System Settings and already tried QTCurve and Oxygen option, no help. When the GTK+ skin was…
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How to take a screenshot in KDE Plasma Ubuntu?

I am new to Plasma and I don't know how to take a screenshot. From what I've seen there isn't any shortcut for that so I would like to create one, if only I knew how to do it.
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What is the difference between kubuntu-desktop, plasma-desktop and kde-plasma-desktop packages?

I see they differ in size. plasma-desktop is a dependency of kde-plasma-desktop and it seems that kubuntu-desktop and kde-plasma-desktop are independent of each other. What are other differences between kubuntu-desktop, plasma-desktop and…
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macOS-like app switching in Plasma 5

In macOS, you can cycle through applications (note: not windows) by pressing ALT+TAB. However, when ALT+TABbing in Plasma 5, you cycle through all windows of all applications, which can get overwhelming when having multiple instances of one app. I…
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Can i get Task manager to show only icons?

In the Task manager widget of the Panel, can i get it to not show the application titles, but only the icons? I don't see that option when i go to Task Manager Options. So, in this example, i would want only the logo of Firefox, without the "Ask a…
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