I recently installed the extragear-plasma package to get those desktop applets I've seen. I was happy with them, they're great, but I wanted to tidy my desktop and get rid of a few I don't need.
All of them removed cleanly except the dictionary. Every time I logged in, it was back. I removed the extragear-plasma package and it resulted in an orphaned plasmoid that said "This object could not be created".
After some googling, I could not find the answer. but I did manage to find the file that contains the plasmoid location settings..
To manually remove any plasmoid from the desktop you can simply delete the entry from:
~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc
If you open that file in the text editor of your choice you'll see, like in my case, entries like this:
Of course the "dict" plugin no longer exists since I removed its parent package, but I had to manually remove that section from plasma-appletsrc to prevent the plasmoid window from loading upon logging into KDE4.
I imagine you could apply this to any applet that's causing a similar problem.
My apologies if this is posted somewhere else, or widely known, I'm still new to Kubuntu, and this is my first visit to these forums!
I hope this proves as helpful to others as it has to me!
Graham
All of them removed cleanly except the dictionary. Every time I logged in, it was back. I removed the extragear-plasma package and it resulted in an orphaned plasmoid that said "This object could not be created".
After some googling, I could not find the answer. but I did manage to find the file that contains the plasmoid location settings..
To manually remove any plasmoid from the desktop you can simply delete the entry from:
~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc
If you open that file in the text editor of your choice you'll see, like in my case, entries like this:
Code:
[Containments][1][Applets][117] geometry=15,88.5,540,88 locked=false plugin=dict
I imagine you could apply this to any applet that's causing a similar problem.
My apologies if this is posted somewhere else, or widely known, I'm still new to Kubuntu, and this is my first visit to these forums!
I hope this proves as helpful to others as it has to me!
Graham
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