On Friday, 23 October 2020 13:28:23 BST Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Your original forum post said you used middle button (Button2) as a > replacement for double-clicking Button1, but those links including > removing the use of Button2 as a paste. I'm surprised it's doing both > and that you can't lose the paste?
I *want* the paste; I probably use that more often than right-click. > Also, they talk of configuring the Desktop, since that's where you're > clicking, rather than Notes. I'm assuming they're using Desktop to mean > the bulk of the screen background which has no apparent windows on it. > How Button2 is handled by the Desktop as opposed to LibreOffice, > Firefox, a terminal, or xev(1)'s window is up to the Desktop? I believe so. I've only ever set the middle-mouse button behaviour once. > You can mark the packages plasma-widgets-addons pulls in as manually > installed so removing it shouldn't remove anything else. Then you can > cherrypick what else to remove. Starting an install of > plasma-widgets-addons after that, before abandoning it, will show what > extra things have been added to it since it was last installed, as well > as what you've deleted. > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/533523/remove-components-from-stand > ard-installation-of-kde-plasma-on-debian-10 I'm finding the info in there a bit heavy weather; not least because there seem to be several opinions on what needs to be done. In summary however, my takeaway is that I need to install aptitude. This will allow me to mark the plasma-widgets-addons as manually installed and i then need to remove it and re-install each wanted package manually. (These may be a dozen or more; I can't quite tell because some may be needed in the tray etc. It all seems to be a bit of a faff, when all I really want to do is prevent the Notes popping up if I accidentally double click the desktop. There is also some ambiguity in the link that you posted, because at least one response talks about the plasma-widgets-addons package being a meta-package. It is not, it appears to have all of the widgets encapsulated in one file which installs around 375 component files. My best bet seems to be pursuing the 'Lock Widgets' functionality mentioned by Patrick which seems to have been removed from this version. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-11-03 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
