Plasma 6.3.5 immutable widgets in System Tray
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Michael@21:1/5 to
All on Fri Jul 4 10:43:25 2025
I've updated Plasma to 6.3.5 and had a 'Contact' icon appearing in the System Tray, which is apparently put there by merkuro.contact. I don't need it, or want it. I tried to remove it, by right clicking, selecting 'Edit or Manage Widgets' and deleting/deselecting it from the widgets list.
So far so good, I thought, but then it came right back after I logged out/in. Repeating this is pointless because the widget re-appears at every login.
I also tried deleting the two "org.kde.merkuro.contact.applet" entries in ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc:
[Containments][7][General] extraItems=org.kde.plasma.keyboardindicator,org.kde.plasma.vault,org.kde.plasma.notifications,org.kde.plasma.clipboard,org.kde.plasma.mediacontroller,org.kde.plasma.battery,org.kde.plasma.printmanager,org.kde.plasma.keyboardlayout,org.kde.plasma.manage-
inputmethod,org.kde.kscreen,org.kde.plasma.devicenotifier,org.kde.plasma.brightness,org.kde.kdeconnect,org.kde.merkuro.contact.applet
knownItems=org.kde.plasma.keyboardindicator,org.kde.plasma.vault,org.kde.plasma.notifications,org.kde.plasma.clipboard,org.kde.plasma.mediacontroller,org.kde.plasma.battery,org.kde.plasma.devicenotifier,org.kde.plasma.printmanager,org.kde.plasma.
keyboardlayout,org.kde.plasma.manage- inputmethod,org.kde.kscreen,org.kde.plasma.brightness,org.kde.kdeconnect,org.kde.merkuro.contact.applet
shownItems=org.kde.plasma.keyboardlayout
It *still* comes up in System Tray! O_O
Is there a way to stop Plasma shell from regenerating this unwanted merkuro.contact widget every time it is launched?
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