Hi Terry, > I *want* the paste; I probably use that more often than right-click.
What does the middle button, Button2, do for you? For me, it pastes on a Press-Release AKA a click. Double-clicking does nothing. > > 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. So are you digging into the Desktop's configuration, or Notes? It may be the former is the place to look. > > 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. No, apititude is used to mark all those packages on which a package depends as manually installed in one step. It suggests aptitude unmarkauto '?reverse-depends(kde-standard) | ?reverse-recommends(kde-standard)' > (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. Why are you double-clicking Button2 at all, let alone accidentally in the wrong place? And why do you do this often enough outside of any window so it's a problem? Is it a dodgy mouse bouncing the button? > 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. Then the technique won't work. Picking one file in plasma-widgets-addons at random, libdictplugin.so, I agree it's only provided by plasma-widgets-addons according to apt-file(1). > My best bet seems to be pursuing the 'Lock Widgets' functionality > mentioned by Patrick which seems to have been removed from this > version. I'd be annoyed if Xfce4 removed the ability to stop widgets being knocked about accidentally. Perhaps a KDE forum would find the answers instead of a Kubuntu one? -- Cheers, Ralph. -- 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
