On 11/19/20 4:32 PM, Doug McGarrett wrote:
On 11/19/20 3:39 PM, Doug McGarrett wrote:
On 11/19/20 11:50 AM, Ianseeks wrote:
On Thursday, 19 November 2020 14:46:26 GMT Bengt Gördén wrote:
On 2020-11-19 11:11, gumb wrote:
/snip/ Don't think it's that. It's part of task manager. Can't put spacer there.
I've also got three/four icons on the left depending what I do. They're not favorites, recent apps or such. Just a few icons to the left in the task-manager (4.0 I believe) that is visible if I don't run one of them. If I close the running one it reappears to the left in task manager. And there seems to be nothing in task manager settings to get rid of it.
picture of them: https://susepaste.org/37fc23fc I can add programs to this left hand panel by selecting "Add to Panel (Widget)" if i right click a program in the app menu. To remove them, you have to right click on the left panel area and select "Edit Panel" then click on the icon to get a mini menu that allows your to remove the widget.
I don't think this is called the task manager. It appears to me that some icons that (for some reason) cannot be shown on the desktop are relegated to the panel. In the past, and in other versions of KDE Plasma, these apps seem to always go to the right-hand end of the panel, with the clock at the extreme right, and other apps piled up just to the left of the clock. I'd like that behavior to remain that way, like it always has, up to now. (For reference, the grinning ball is at the left end, followed, in no particular order, by icons for System Settings, YaST, Konsole, and Kate. These can be moved among this group if desired, but always stay at the left end of the panel. There must be some code somewhere that tells the system how to do these things, and I suspect that it is corrupted or perhaps missing.
Now as I understand it, the Task Manager is a device--a widget, I'm told--which shows on the panel an OPEN task, such as this Thunderbird in which I'm presently writing. Somehow while messing with the panel, I seem to have lost the Task Manager, since Thunderbird is NOT shown now, and if I start Firefox, that doesn't show either. I would like to get that back. (It may just be suppressed, and come back on reboot. I will try that and report back here.)
********************************** The task manager is gone. --doug *********************************
I hope I have not made this incomprehensible! --doug
The task manager shows running apps. It sits in/on the panel, typically in the center. To add it back: click corner icon, unlock widgets, add widgets, locate task manager in the list, drag to the panel. Right-click on the task manager for pop-up window showing switches to control its behavior. Click again on corner icon, lock widgets. This is not the same as adding favorites to the panel, which can be done by either (a) dragging from the apps menu to the panel, or (b) right-clicking on the app in the menu and clicking on add-to-panel. (The pic posted above shows app widgets in the panel, the task manager is showing the running apps to their right.) IIRC the default from the right end of the panel is the panel control icon, the clock, and then the system tray which is populated by dynamic widgets. Right-click on the tray to control those. Fwiw, my panel left-to-right: menu, app widgets, quick launcher, task manager, system tray, clock, trash. --dg