On Wednesday 19 April 2023 13:13:34 Michele Calgaro via tde-users wrote:
On 2023/04/19 08:23 PM, William Morder via tde-users wrote:
As I said at the start, these are not the icon for the application itself, but rather a kind of ghost icons that have something to do with docking in the systray. When I find another, I'll try to get a screenshot, but I don't know if I can get a screenshot of the bit about hiding or docking in the systray.
Why do you suspect docking to systray? And if so, what happen if you click on the icons?
It seems strange to have "ghost" icons. Icons should either belong to some applications or show docked applications. In any case, something should happen when they are clicked, IMO.
Cheers Michele
There, it took a bit of fiddling to get ksnapshot to work. I don't usually try to capture only a section of screen, but generally do a full screenshot.
There are the so-called ghost icons for smplayer, xscreensaver and ksnapshot itself (that black circle-in-square is my custom icon). The ghost icon in the systray only offers options to hide, undock and quit; but I can do pkill ksystraycmd and these go away, yet the programs keep working. Thus, these icons are useless for me, and I just want to suppress them, so that I don't keep clicking to make them go away.
Years ago, back in the good ol' KDE3 days, somebody gave me a command or script or something (the memory is pretty hazy), and I put it is a shell script or somewhere that I can find or recall now, and it went away, and I didn't think about it again until I started running TDE a few years ago, and it's been bugging me ever since. I know from experience that I can make this thing go away, but I just can't remember how, aside from constantly running pkill ksystraycmd.
If it worked then, it ought to work now, if only I could remember how I did it.
Bill
