Does anyone else have a resource monitor appearing on their KDE desktop? My is in the upper-right corner, and lies on top of all other windows. I can work with windows beneath it alright, but it is always showing.
The resource monitor is always translucent, and appears to have some sort of vertical “thermometer”-style usage scale on its left side. Beside that are two scrolling graphs. The only text/label appears to be a percentage that matches the thermometer bar, but there is nothing to tell me what resources are being monitored.
Regardless, I use other resource monitoring software and I do not want this one on my desktop. Any suggestions for how I can remove this?
Right click on the desktop and make sure widgets are unlocked.
Hover over the Resource Monitor and you should get a handle appear to one edge with a selection of options, but one of them should be a X, if you click that it should go.
My widgets were already unlocked, and hovering over this resource monitor doesn’t show the usual icons to move/delete/options/etc. I did make it disappear by turning off compositing, leading me to believe that the graphics card usage is being displayed. I have an NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT and I’m using the NVIDIA drivers (installed the “hard” way using through runlevel 3 rather than YaST). Since I now know that turning off compositing will remove the monitor I can address the issue if needed, but I’d love to know how I can keep compositing active while removing the monitor.
I apologize for referring to the monitor as a “widget”. I was using the term as a synonym for “do-hickey” as opposed to the SUSE definition of “widget”.
I know now what this is. It is one of the desktop effects, called “Show FPS” and the description says it is to “Display KWin’s performance in the corner of the screen.” In order to turn this off only, ‘Personal Settings’ > ‘Desktop’ > ‘Desktop Effects’ > ‘All Effects’ and then look for “Show FPS”.