On 2021-03-25 7:40 p.m., gumb wrote:
On 25/03/2021 14:22, James Knott wrote:
There are a couple of useless features in the KDE desktop. One is something triggers a bunch of thumbnail over the desktop, instead of the normal apps & folders. The other is when the mouse is held over an app, such as a browser, again thumnails pop up along the bottom of the screen, all showing exactly the same thing, so they can't even be used to select an open windows. I find both of these to not only be useless, but often get in my way. Is there anyway to disable this nonsense?
I'm running Leap 15.2.
tnx jk
I would try and be a bit more objective. What you think is useless may well be great for many other users. Most likely for the first issue, you need to right-click on the desktop, go to the Icons submenu and uncheck 'Show Previews'.
For the second, it's not entirely clear. I assume you refer to hovering over an app in the taskbar at the bottom of the screen, and you mean you have multiple browser windows and they all just show the browser logo. On my Leap 15.2 install I see a thumbnail of the browser window content, which is the default. If you're not using compositing that might be a reason why. Perhaps look under Display and Monitor -> Compositor in System Settings. And if you do have compositing enabled, check the setting for Keep window thumbnails isn't set to Never. The default only shows thumbnails for apps that aren't minimized, so you might prefer Always.
gumb
I've turned off Show Previews, so I'll have to see how it goes now, but the Compositor one didn't make any difference.