On Thursday, 2011-01-20, Stephen Kell wrote: > Hi, > > Can I turn off the plasma desktop background (i.e. the window that gets > mapped over the root window) without killing plasma? > > I want to use plasma mainly for the applets like knetworkmanager, and > don't want to lose access to my plain old X11 root window. I tried > "remove this desktop activity" but in the case of the desktop background > it appears to do nothing. This is in KDE 4.4.2 (Ubuntu Lucid) -- > apologies if there are relevant changes in subsequent versions. Very good question. I think in Plasma terminology all areas which can hold widgets are called containments. I had a look into plasma-desktop-appletsrc and there seems to one for the desktop (has a line like plugin=desktop). You could try removing that containment from your config. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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