{"id":10626,"date":"2025-05-16T01:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/?p=10626"},"modified":"2025-05-16T06:35:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T10:35:40","slug":"fine-tuning-the-kde-plasma-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/?p=10626","title":{"rendered":"Fine tuning the KDE Plasma desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"10626\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"cookie\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>In the my blog post I wrote about the new Lenovo V 15 laptop I purchased and installed Fedora KDE Plasma 42. One of the annoying problems I have had in the last day since setting this laptop up is the lack of access to a right button click using just the touchpad. I had resigned myself to just using the wireless Logitech mouse but it still dogged me that I couldn\u2019t figure out the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the best things about the KDE Plasma desktop is the incredible granularity of the controls that a user has to customize the desktop for each person. I did some searching in Fedora forums and on Reddit, then I went back to the \u2018System Settings\u2019, which are myriad. The solution was right before me, but I had not seen it. Navigate to the lower left of the Fedora KDE Desktop display and the first icon on the panel is \u2018System Settings\u2019 indicated by the red arrow below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"425\" height=\"95\" src=\"http:\/\/www.both.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot_20250510_123901-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10628\" style=\"width:513px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screen picture by Don Watkins CC  by SA 4.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Click on the \u2018System Settings\u2019 which opens the following menu option. Select the \u2018Mouse and Touchpad\u2019 option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"609\" height=\"395\" src=\"http:\/\/www.both.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/both2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10633\" style=\"width:547px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screen picture by Don Watkins CC by SA 4.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Then select the \u2018Touchpad\u2019 option. The\u2019 Integrated right click\u2019 option is at the bottom right of the menu. Be sure to select the second option, which allows you to click anywhere on the touchpad with two fingers to create the same effect as a right click with the mouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"524\" src=\"http:\/\/www.both.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/both3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10636\" style=\"width:698px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screen picture by Don Watkins CC by SA 4.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Problem solved! Thank you KDE Plasma desktop and the Fedora team. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the my blog post I wrote about the new Lenovo V 15 laptop I purchased and installed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":8370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[704,5],"tags":[713],"class_list":["post-10626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kde-plasma","category-linux","tag-kde-plasma-6"],"modified_by":"David Both","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10626"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10651,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626\/revisions\/10651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}