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I'm looking to remove the "Tool Box" icon in the upper right hand corner of my KDE 4 desktop, but can't find any configuration setting anywhere to do so. I'm new to KDE 4, so it's quite possible I just haven't found that setting yet.
Is there any way to remove that icon from your desktop, or is it just a permanent, unmovable part of KDE?
You can delete the toolbox cashew widget this way:
Open a terminal and type: sudo -H dolphin or kdesudo dolphin enter your password
In dolphin, navigate to /usr/share/kde4/services
Search in this folder for plasma-toolbox, there should be 3 files named plasma-toolbox-(*something*).desktop
Make backups of these in another folder and delete the originals
log out and back in
Done, no more cashew :)
Install Py-Cashew -- it's an additional script that removes the thingy (it can also be downloaded via KDE widget download tool)
There are also Stealth Cashew that let's you configure cashew transparency.
I found another alternative, in case anyone's interested: the "Stealth Cashew" widget also lets you hide the cashew. It requires the 'plasma-scriptengine-ruby' package to work, though.
Just remove "/usr/share/kde4/services/plasma-toolbox-desktoptoolbox"
Done. Checked. Worked.
1) With the current Plasma design it is intended that the Toolbox is not easily removable because Plasma has a high configurability and the user always should have the possibility to get things back.
2) Still, the non-removable toolbox is a splinter in many user's eyes. So there is an ongoing discussion of how to let the user easily remove the toolbox while making sure there is always a way to "repair" a ill-configured desktop: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=285&t=125076
