Activity manager configuration settings
The ~/.kde/share/config/activitymanagerrc has the information of the available, running and the current activity.
At here the KDE is slow to update the activitymanagerrc. If I change the activity and log out the current activity is still the old one. The next log in the KDE is starting to the old activity.
Workarounds:
- stop the other activities before the log out - a bit silly ;)
- use the kwriteconfig to set/update the current activity.
The kwriteconfig help file:
:~$ kwriteconfig --help
Usage: kwriteconfig [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [options] value
Write KConfig entries - for use in shell scripts
Generic options:
--help Show help about options
--help-qt Show Qt specific options
--help-kde Show KDE specific options
--help-all Show all options
--author Show author information
-v, --version Show version information
--license Show license information
-- End of options
Options:
--file <file> Use <file> instead of global config
--group <group> Group to look in. Use repeatedly for nested groups. [KDE]
--key <key> Key to look for
--type <type> Type of variable. Use "bool" for a boolean, otherwise it is treated as a string
Arguments:
value The value to write. Mandatory, on a shell use '' for empty
At here the activitymanagerrc has:
[activities]
43ef904a-bf13-4770-87b4-3804059f073f=Media
5dfa29b8-765b-4860-ad56-3b0e257e8923=Desktop
afcf7ba3-4aa7-433f-abad-14db4f31b44b=New Activity
[activities-icons]
43ef904a-bf13-4770-87b4-3804059f073f=
[main]
currentActivity=43ef904a-bf13-4770-87b4-3804059f073f
runningActivities=43ef904a-bf13-4770-87b4-3804059f073f,5dfa29b8-765b-4860-ad56-3b0e257e8923
So the command:
kwriteconfig --file activitymanagerrc --group main --key currentActivity -type string 5dfa29b8-765b-4860-ad56-3b0e257e8923
will set the current activity as the Desktop.
The kwriteconfig command can be added to the KDE System settings > Startup and Shutdown > Autostart
