6.14.11-300.fc42.x86_64 - just ran dnf update and rebooted. And the Control Panel - clicking on the icons - nothing - left click pops up a menu. Not how it worked before I ran dnf update and received KDE popup - something kde new version. How to fix? Return to previous actions?
Thanks
By control panel do you mean the system-settings app?
The main control panel - starts with the 45 deg infinity morphed to an F and a firefox icon and BT, brightness, wifi, battery, etc icons. Any click on the Application icon pops up a menu box. I have a desktop icon for xterm. Dbl click and I have an xterm, type thunderbird, I have my email and an icon on the panel, I minimize, mouseover icon and a small sample window pops up. But get the original back - nope. I can get a popup menu of various actions - none of which I want - I just want the window back where it was. So the question: Is my system screwed up or did someone at KDE say Hey I like menus of menus or menus?
When I click on the fedora logo I get the panel with the icons in it.
Can you share a screen shot of what you see when you click on the fedora logo in the top left corner?
I like the panel along right side, auto hide (and ketchup on my scramegg).
and left mouse.
Mouseover and left click - nada. Right click gives menu. Two days ago - mouseover dbl click and KDE Menu Editor would popup. Dbl Click on anything on the panel - nada - nothing - use to work.
(wasn’t broke - let’s fix it)
Thanks.
and just discovered - systemsettings, mouse, Not abe to select appropriate backend
mouse works but unable to config right,left,speed,…
Do left clicks work correctly in places other than the panel?
For example, if you do Meta-E to start Dolphin, can you left-click on files there as normal?
Odd I see this in KDE plasma
Nothing like what you are seeing.
Can you post the output of inxi -Fzxx please?
You will need to install inxi, sudo dnf install inxi.
Oh, and my screen … not quite like your’s … black with 1 icon for xterm and the system panel - auto hide.
System:
Kernel: 6.15.3-200.fc42.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.1.1
Desktop: GNOME v: 48.2 tk: GTK v: 3.24.49 wm: gnome-shell dm: SDDM
Distro: Fedora Linux 42 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)
Machine:
Type: Convertible System: HP product: HP Pavilion x360 m3 Convertible
v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 31
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: HP model: 81A7 v: 52.28 serial: <superuser required>
part-nu: W2L17UA#ABA UEFI: Insyde v: F.34 date: 02/26/2018
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 31.7 Wh (75.8%) condition: 41.8/41.8 Wh (100.0%)
volts: 11.9 min: 11.6 model: 313-54-41 BI03041XL serial: <filter>
status: discharging
CPU:
Info: dual core model: Intel Core i3-6100U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Skylake rev: 3 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB L3: 3 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 500 min/max: 400/2300 cores: 1: 500 2: 500 3: 500 4: 500
bogomips: 18399
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1
bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:1916
Device-2: Chicony HP Wide Vision HD driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-8:4 chip-ID: 04f2:b56d
Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.8 compositor: gnome-shell
driver: gpu: i915 display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: LG Display 0x04f8 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 118
diag: 336mm (13.2")
API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: iris device: 1 drv: swrast gbm:
drv: iris surfaceless: drv: iris wayland: drv: iris x11: drv: iris
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.0.7 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 520 (SKL GT2)
device-ID: 8086:1916 display-ID: :0.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.313 surfaces: N/A device: 0 type: integrated-gpu
driver: mesa intel device-ID: 8086:1916 device: 1 type: cpu
driver: mesa llvmpipe device-ID: 10005:0000
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info,wlr-randr x11: xdriinfo,
xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:9d70
API: ALSA v: k6.15.3-200.fc42.x86_64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: aRts v: 1.5.10 status: off with: artswrapper status: off
Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off
Server-3: PipeWire v: 1.4.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wireless 3165 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie:
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:3165
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-6:3 chip-ID: 8087:0a2a
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 4.2
lmp-v: 8 sub-v: 1000
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 946.36 GiB used: 24.68 GiB (2.6%)
ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: SD size: 14.84 GiB type: Removable
serial: <filter>
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Crucial model: CT1000BX500SSD1 size: 931.51 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> temp: 27 C
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 929.93 GiB used: 24.3 GiB (2.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda3
ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 369.9 MiB (38.0%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sda2
ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 19.3 MiB (3.2%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/sda1
ID-4: /home size: 929.93 GiB used: 24.3 GiB (2.6%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/sda3
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 5.67 GiB used: 681.9 MiB (11.8%) priority: 100
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 34.0 C pch: 29.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 6 GiB available: 5.67 GiB used: 2.87 GiB (50.6%)
Processes: 392 Power: uptime: 2h 3m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 257
target: graphical (5) default: graphical
Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm Compilers: gcc: 15.1.1
Shell: Bash v: 5.2.37 running-in: ptyxis-agent inxi: 3.3.38
Ah, mouse clicks are not as they were 3 days ago.
I would tend to suspect an issue in kernel compatibility with your hardware, more so than a KDE issue.
Maybe try this?
sudo dnf install evtestsudo evtest- You should see a list of devices, choose the number that corresponds to your trackpad or mouse.
- Left-click. Do you see an event appear?
For example on my system, I see this when I left click:
Testing ... (interrupt to exit)
Event: time 1750785242.499575, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 90001
Event: time 1750785242.499575, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 272 (BTN_LEFT), value 1
Event: time 1750785242.499575, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1750785242.603851, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 90001
Event: time 1750785242.603851, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 272 (BTN_LEFT), value 0
Event: time 1750785242.603851, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
It appears that you started with kde plasma then added gnome desktop to the system.
And you are logging into gnome not kde.
Is that right?
I “was” KDE only until this afternoon - I installed Gnome - and it works without any problems. My problem with Gnome is "You WILL use icons - 100’s of them - you WILL have our wonderful, beautiful screens - “SU!” I like my blank black screen with one icon, xterm. So the only??? problem I’m having with KDE right now is DblClick and have an app re-open. I have to right click->more->move, click.
Oh and my Control Panel is on the bottom and I can’t get it to move to the right side. @@$!(^!$&^
If you want to use kde then please login to kde and show what you see.
Then tell us how you want that to be configured.
It isn’t what I “see”, it’s “how” it’s working. Last week: Thunderbird is on top, I’ve read my emails, I click on “V” to minimize, and Thunderbird vanishes. Then later I double click on the icon in the tray and up comes TB. Today I go to the System Panel and double click on the Thunderbird icon - nothing - clickclickclickclickclick - nothing. Right click on the icon and up pops a menu: Recent Files (5 listed), Actions (open new, pin to tm, 3dot More), I mouseover on More and up pops a new menu: Move, Resize, Max, Min, keep… I click on Move and TB shows up and I just click and now TB is back on the screen and usable.
I’m a minimalist. My screen has 1 icon, Xterm, background #000000, panel autohide. If I want my email, in xterm, I type “em” (aliased to thunderbird). Or cd Documents, type oowriter membership.doc, or “cu” which runs a script to ssh to a server and runs oocalc checkbook.csv. Oh, and “Autohide”, size works, Position - nope. I like it on the right side - can’t get it to move.
Thanks for any help - I’ll spring fer a beer.
On my system (KDE 6.4, and I haven’t knowingly changed anything about the panel behaviour), single-clicking the Thunderbird icon will:
a) If the app isn’t already open, then open it
b) If the app is open and not minimised, then minimise it
c) If the app is open and minimised, then un-minimise it to its previous position
So if the app was already open and minimised, then the effect of double-clicking is to un-minimise and then re-minimise it. If those two things happened fast enough, it might look like nothing happened.
I personally can’t double-click that fast though! I always see the app appear and disappear.
I just > Workspace->General->Clicking. Interval test works just fine. Files&Fold changed from Select to Open - no change.
Just found: in rg.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsr → RightButton;NoModifier=org.kde.contextmenu, Don’t know if …
[UPDATE] Ah, didn’t do anything
Discovered “Winkey-lefttclick” will raise/minimize. In place of DblClick.
Still unable to position panel to right side. [edit] and with that winkey & drag.
Right-click on the panel and select “Show Panel Configuration”.
Set “Floating” mode to Disabled, then click “Position” and use the arrow on the right-hand side of the screen to move the panel there.
Let’s see if I can remember how I got it. ShowPC, click on Pos., mouseover “>”, click on Winkey. and it just jumped there.
Looks like a roll-back - everything working again. - Thanks.
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