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See attachment - would be most concise,

but, in short, there is a white box that can be take text input on my desktop. It is of unknown providence. I do not know how that got there and I do not want it.

thanks for your help

It looks like a Notes application. Do you have an icon in your system tray that indicates a notes application? If so right click on it and quit.

It's the Notes widget and you must have added it to the desktop yourself. Click the "peanut" icon (3 bars) in the upper right corner of the desktop and a vertical bar will appear along the right of the widget containing a red delete icon (among others.) Click that then click the peanut icon again to dismiss the menu that appeared the first time you clicked it.

Thanks Guys

This is the second time in a month or so this issue has come up. I wonder what it is that people are doing to inadvertently add the widget?

IIRC F6 is a shortcut for new note(s). Try disabling shortcuts/hotkeys

markol wrote: Tue May 25, 2021 3:50 pm IIRC F6 is a shortcut for new note(s). Try disabling shortcuts/hotkeys

Not on my MX-KDE system. The only function key shortcut is F4 for the drop-down terminal. Looking in Settings Manager > Shortcuts I don't see any shortcut keys for installing or invoking the Notes widget.

I think people are just exploring their OS (because they don't have anything else to do because, being MX Linux, everything's working fine out of the box for 99% of the users), seeing the Notes widget, installing it to try it out, deciding they don't like it, then they get stuck trying to remove it because Notes doesn't behave like other widgets where a long left-click will cause the vertical bar with control buttons to appear on the right.

I believe this widget was installed by default. One of the kids had an older laptop with a somehow faulty keyboard and everytime when she closed the lid (without shutting down first) one of the F keys was pressed. Hundreds of yellow squares appeared in the morning :)

"Problem" was solved by removing the widget

hello beersloth and everyone
right-click on kde Desktop to select >Configure Desktop from menu.

choose the >Mouse Actions tab.

by default the top one is Middle Button = Paste.

That indicates in Desktop = Paste using Note.

A stray Note can be a sign of a stray Middle click in the Desktop.

Change the assignment of middle-click or remove the action; in the Desktop Folder Settings - Plasma window.

Damn I was looking for what is this thing since morning.

i_ri wrote: Mon May 31, 2021 7:42 pm A stray Note can be a sign of a stray Middle click in the Desktop.

You're right, I think I am accidentally tapping three-fingers on the touchpad which is causing this.

Thanks for resolving this!

It happened again. now I have three new unwanted notes stuck on my desktop. I cannot see above what helped me get rid of the previous unwanted note as I am the OP. I really want the widget or offending application gone so that I cannot accidentally make more and I really want to delete these. I cannot so far.

If i uninstall the widget my notes will be gone and I cannot accidentally bung up my desktop again, correct ? If so, how do I uninstall the widget or what else can I do ?

Admin,
maybe delete this post, it is mine, it is going nowhere.

Since a lot of replies have been given I am not going to delete the thread, if that is what you want.

I CAN delete posts number 11 and 12 for you if you want.

@beersloth Solutions have already been given to you in post #3 how to remove the Notes widget from the desktop and in post #9 how to disable the cause of Notes unintentionally launching in the first place. What more were you expecting?

All,

Thanks for attempting to help.
but, solution 3 is not a solution. add a note to your desktop and try it. the only way to remove a note is right click along the frame of the note (has to be the frame or outline) and wait for the menu to pop up, there is a delay, but there is a delete option. That is the only way I found to delete the three sticky notes on my desktop. there was a tiny widget which simply pointed to them. solution 3 would have been referring to that, but removing the widget(s) left the notes in place. Only what i mentioned above just now got rid of them.

as for your point, admin (Eadwine Rose) about many responses. read them. virtually none were for help except JayM, which I appreciate, but it did not work. I did follow the suggestion of post 9 but have no idea if that is how I was getting notes on my desktop so I will not know if it helped or not. The thread seems like a deleter to me in that nothing here actually worked until this post but that is your call.

Ja das ist Notes, passierte mir auch eine Zeit lang. Zu der gleichen Zeit im Mai bis Juni. Danach hörte es wieder auf. Damals wurde auch viel gebastelt an der Kontrollleiste. jetzt ist das stabil, vielleicht hing das zusammen? Ich habe dann mit der rechten Maustaste (ganz genau zielen) die rechte obere Ecke angeklickt. Dann gab es ein Menue mit dem das Feld zu löschen war. Das lief unter "Mini-Programme". Das weisse Feld war aber ein Notizzettel, kein Programmstarter. Egal, hat sich erledigt.

@abc987cba Please post in English, this is not a German forum.

Bitte posten Sie auf Englisch, dies ist kein deutsches Forum.