Annoying KDE feature

[Brian Cluff]

That looks like the activities switcher.  You're probably pressing 
Meta+Q.  It shouldn't be getting stuck on your screen though.  On my 
system simply clicking anywhere inside the activities bar and then 
clicking outside of it causes it to go away.  You should be able to 
press Meta+Q again and that should get rid of too though.

Activities are great if you need them.   They allow you to have separate 
layouts for different work flows.   I always make a presentation 
activity on all my laptops so that I can have a clean layout with no 
personal information showing as well as easy access to my presentations 
via a custom folder view of my presentations folder.  I also add a 
larger clock so that I can keep track of time.

Brian Cluff

On 4/19/21 6:50 AM, Bob Elzer via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Could it be the window switcher?  Try the windows key. Just a guess.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2021, 6:18 AM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss 
> <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org 
> <mailto:plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all, curious if anyone's seen this before, or know how to get
>     rid of this plague.
>
>     Somehow I randomly trigger this KDE widget board "feature" on the
>     entire left side of my primary display, shows a "Default" desktop
>     display, but no idea what it is, or what it is supposed to do as
>     it does nothing far as I can tell.  I can't get rid of it, I can't
>     identify it, and it stays on top of most everything, effectively
>     removing about 20% of my desktop when I trigger it with some
>     unknown hotkey accidentally.  I don't even know what to call it to
>     google "how to get rid of x".
>
>     It's super frustrating, this is like the 3rd time I've done it,
>     and all I can do is restart the desktop to be rid of it.
>
>     Whoever included this as a "feature" was smoking crack at the
>     time.  See below for a screen shot.
>
>     Thanks in advance for clues!
>
>     -mb
>
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