OK guys,

I lucked out and stumbled on the fix for my artifact.  Turns out the message on the screen can be removed with the same key combinations as used to remove widgets *from the panel*, i.e. 'Alt-D, R'.  I think.  Now I can't find where I saw that out of context.  Anyway, having done that fixes the problem installing one-click launchers to the panels too.

I can go to bed happy tonight because *everything* I've set up is now working correctly.  Definitely KDE Plasma and definitely not Kubuntu.

But I still need to figure out how to get terminal shutdown/reboot/halt installed.  Back to all that excellent documentation in the wikis and the desktop.  Must be in there somewhere.

Tom

Hello NMGLUG,

I've got a two-day old install of Debian 10 with KDE Plasma desktop on a brand-new 1TB SSD in a two or three year old 15" HP-Notebook with an AMD CPU.  This installed via Calamares running from a live, non-free firmware iso, checksum and signature file verified.

Mostly so far everything seems robust and beautiful, but there's been considerable pathology with setting up the panels the way I like.

Right-clicking on an application in either of the main application menus (I have a cascading menu in the upper panel, and the default menu in the lower panel) *should* show and permit the option of installing a one-click launch icon on the associated panel--but sometimes it does, and other times it doesn't.

Also, I had a dictionary widget in the upper panel that was apparently missing one of the supporting files for some reason. In association with a desktop crash, hard powerdown* and/or my eventual removal of the widget, the error message somehow became permanent.  See attached screenshot.

Any suggestions for how I might best attempt to repair this?

Thanks,

Tom

*'ctrl-alt-esc' will kill Plasma (but leave application windows running, presumably because they run in different threads) but I don't yet know how to restart Plasma from the terminal, and for some reason there is no 'shutdown', 'reboot' or 'halt' command installed.

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