René J.V. Bertin posted on Tue, 16 Aug 2022 17:54:06 +0200 as excerpted:
> On Tuesday August 16 2022 11:35:44 Koeame wrote:
>>that package was, but it was plasma-touch related), but that did not
>>work.
>>What if I just uninstalled plasma5-workspace as a package? lol
>
> That will probably also uninstall most of what gives you the Plasma DE
> (but I can be wrong).
I believe you're correct. It's also likely that plasma(5?)-desktop (and
perhaps other optional/addon packages like kdeplasma-addons) would need
uninstalled as well, as it surely deps on plasma-workspace.
> If the issue is limited to the desktop it would be easier just to log in
> to a different DE. It may not look as fancy, but you could actually find
> your computer more responsive because Plasma isn't exactly low-resource
> anymore (as far as I can tell).
Along the same lines but different -- more drastic visually but less of a
change from kde/plasma in general -- there's the option to actually
terminate plasmashell and thus the desktop, while keeping the rest of
plasma's system services (including krunner aka the open dialog to run
apps, kwin to manage windows, global hotkeys, hardware detection and
sound...) running as-is.
>From krunner "killall plasmashell" (without the quotes) should do it. To
get it back, just "plasmashell".
Of course without plasmashell running you won't have your desktop
wallpaper or widgets, or your panels with their widgets, which means no
launch menus, etc (unless you run some third-party launcher). But as long
as you know the name of the apps you want to run, krunner (the open
dialog) should still work using its normal hotkey (alt-F2 IIRC, tho I
could be wrong as I've run with custom hotkeys so long IDR what the
originals are), and you can use it to open konsole if you want a terminal
window to launch things from.
This works because plasma is split up into various components that can
continue to function even if another component freezes/crashes, thus
allowing recovery from component crashes without a full logout/login or
reboot cycle.
The drawback is that without plasmashell you'll just have a bare-screen-
black background and will be missing the small but for some workflows
vital minor services (like the notifications stuff) that plasmashell
provices so most people won't like to run that way in general, but it
should reduce resource usage quite a bit, and if you're running full-
screen apps you don't normally see the desktop anyway and may not miss it
while you're busy with other things. And it's a quick "plasmashell" in
krunner restartable again when needed.
Of course you have to know the names of the apps you normally run in
ordered to use krunner/konsole to run them. But I guess most people
figure that out relatively quickly, and some end up using krunner or
hotkeys they've configured to launch stuff most of the time after that
because it's so much quicker, and then only using the actual menu for
stuff they don't run often enough to have memorized the name yet.
Certainly that's the way it is here.
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