Re: Lost keyboard shortcut to KDE button

The KDE team should really improve this. It is really obnoxious how you can’t set the Meta key alone. Making tinkering with your interface much more difficult

> On May 2, 2022, at 05:41, Duncan <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Peter Humphrey posted on Wed, 20 Apr 2022 14:11:21 +0000 as excerpted:
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>> Hello list,
>>
>> While playing with task bars etc. I've managed to lose the Left Windows
>> key shortcut to open the task manager.
>>
>> How can I get it back?
>
> I think this is what you're after.
>
> https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/Tips#open-start-menu-with-windows-meta-key
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>
> Tho FWIW, there's some entirely understandable naming confusion going on.
> No big deal here as (I think) I figured out what you were referring to,
> but if you have reason to mention the same things in other posts knowing
> what they're called can avoid some reader confusion trying to figure out
> what you're referring to, and similarly, should help if you end up wanting
> to try some of the other tips on the page linked above, as well.
>
> The individual widgets are sometimes called plasmoids because they run in
> the plasma shell, altho widgets is the more generic term, and what the
> labels in plasma call them in for instance the "Add Widgets" entry.  These
> are contained in, in this case, the panel, tho the desktop itself can
> contain widgets/plasmoids as well.
>
> "Task manager" generally refers to the specific "task manager" plasmoid,
> that is, the widget that displays the running application windows, not the
> whole "panel" container.
>
> Meanwhile, the K-menu aka Start-menu aka application launcher plasmoid is
> what normally has the Windows aka super aka hyper key assignment, altho
> activating it should popup the entire panel it's on, if it was hidden
> (autohide mode or windows can cover), and that panel normally contains a
> task manager plasmoid, a digital clock plasmoid, and others.
>
> And FWIW, there's several alternatives for most of these, an icons-only
> task manager, for instance, some clock alternatives (analog, fuzzy...),
> several different app-launcher styles, ..., all available either as part
> of KDE Plasma itself (there's a package called kdeplasma-addons with
> more), or for download using the Get New Widgets functionality under Add
> Widgets.  Available alternatives for individual widgets are available in
> the the context (aka right-click) menu under Show Alternatives.  Here,
> under alternatives for the Application Launcher, for instance, I have it
> listed, as well as Application Dashboard and Application Menu, with all
> three being (I believe) built-in options.  There's probably others
> available for download but I've never found the need to look, tho I've
> downloaded widgets/plasmoids for other things.
>
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