Bug 329607 - no activities submenu in right-click application menu
Summary: no activities submenu in right-click application menu
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: kded-appmenu
Classification: Plasma
Component: Titlebar menu button/popup (show other bugs)
Version: 4.12.0
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR major
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Cédric Bellegarde
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Reported: 2014-01-04 20:11 UTC by Piotr Suwara
Modified: 2017-02-05 12:37 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Piotr Suwara 2014-01-04 20:11:00 UTC
After clicking with right mouse button on the top menu of any application, submenu "activities" is not shown in the popup menu.

Moreover, any launched application is shown on all activities. I am sure this is not the default way for a clean KDE install.

The same bug was in 4.11.5, as far as I remember, or maybe even earlier, but rather not in 4.11.3.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to ~/.kde4/share/config/kdedrc , find Module-powerdevil and set autoload=false. If there is no such section, create it:
[Module-powerdevil]
autoload=false
2. Load KDE.
3. To be completely sure, get at least 2 activities on. Open an app. Right-click the titlebar.
Actual Results:  
A popup menu is shown, with no "Activities" submenu, so I cannot change activities.

Expected Results:  
A popup menu which allows changing activities for the window.

Minimal Working Example is as follows. Be sure KDE is not running. Make ~/.kde4 directory empty. Create ~/.kde4/share/config/activitymanagerrc with contents:

[activities]
be44afbd-64e9-44b6-a6a7-419725309ac3=Base
d4beafed-cc43-4eb5-bdcc-5c8bf5ca4e6d=Second

[main]
currentActivity=be44afbd-64e9-44b6-a6a7-419725309ac3
lastUnlockedActivity=be44afbd-64e9-44b6-a6a7-419725309ac3
ontologyVersion=1
runningActivities=be44afbd-64e9-44b6-a6a7-419725309ac3,d4beafed-cc43-4eb5-bdcc-5c8bf5ca4e6d

Create ~/.kde4/share/config/kdedrc with the following:

[$Version]
update_info=kded.upd:kde3.0

[Module-powerdevil]
autoload=false

Now run KDE and enjoy no simple way to choose activities for windows.
Comment 1 Brian DeRocher 2014-01-05 03:23:11 UTC
I also see this.  I've seen this a few times in the past few months.  It comes and goes.  Right now i have 3 activities open.  In the context menu of any window i see

Move to Desktop
Minimize
Maximize
Attach as tab to
More actions
Close

I have also closed stopped activities and restarted them, but the menu does not appear.

I'm on Debian Sid, KDE 4.11.3.
Comment 2 Brian DeRocher 2014-01-05 03:44:41 UTC
I just logged out, logged in.  Only my main activity is running.  "Activities" was missing from title bar menu.  I started an activity and the menu item appears.
Comment 3 Piotr Suwara 2014-01-05 11:30:22 UTC
Have you tried changing "autoload=false" for powerdevil?
Comment 4 Geert Janssens 2014-04-21 09:49:56 UTC
I'm seeing this as well on Fedora 20 now since I ran an update that installed kde 4.12.4.

There is no powerdevil section in my ~/.kde/share/config/kdedrc
Comment 5 markuss 2017-02-05 12:37:33 UTC
This is for the old Plasma 4 implementation. Plasma 5.9 has a new implementation of the menu bar.