Whenever you press the middle mouse button while having text in the clipboard, KDE puts a sticky note on your desktop’s background, containing that text snippet. With this, it emulates a “paste” of that text to the desktop.
By default, the new note is yellow and “expanded”, meaning the full text is visible (perhaps with a vertical scroll bar).
However, sometimes something happens (for example, you switch your monitor’s resolution to something smaller), the sticky note shrinks to a mere icon, just being a nice, but useless picture of a yellow pinned leaflet, instead of showing the text.
I’ve fiddled a while to get my text back to being “always visible”, that is to say re-open these “closed” sticky note - :\ - and with this posting, I wanted to ease life for those on a similar quest against their desktop…
When you right-click the note, you just get options like changing the color or (beware!) removing this note, but nothing about “Expand” or “Restore size” or even “Resize”. Why not?! >:(
As it is in no way obvious nor intuitive: you have to long-left-click the note!! What I intuitively would expect to move the note, brings up a new toolbar right of the note, and its topmost button is the one to resize the note. Just drag this button away from the note to make it larger – and all of a sudden, the note is large enough to switch back to fully visible.
Voilà, the text is back at being permanently visible.
Please, dear KDE programmer of “sticky notes” - be so kind to follow established UI experience to show really all options in the right-click menu.
It is counterintuitive and user unfriendly to hide any of an application’s contextual options from the context (right-click) menu!
By the way: the button below that resizer is a rotate button… Looks nice.
P.S.: that plasma widget “sticky note” discussed here is in no way related to the former “knotes” application sitting in the system tray.
P.P.S.: unfortunately, I’m not entitled to post attachments, so no nice screenshots possible here :sarcastic: