How to show open windows from all workspaces?

[Mag1cByt3s]

I would like to always display all running applications from all workspaces in the icons task switcher.

How can i achieve that with plasma-manager? In the code i was not able to find such option.

The config option showOnlyCurrentDesktop in the file .config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc enables it like so:

[Containments][23][Applets][25][Configuration][General]
launchers=applications:org.kde.dolphin.desktop,applications:org.kde.konsole.desktop,applications:firefox.desktop,applications:codium.desktop,applications:burpsuite.desktop,applications:bloodhound.desktop,applications:ghidra.desktop,applications:re.rizin.cutter.desktop,applications:org.wireshark.Wireshark.desktop
showOnlyCurrentDesktop=false

Now I am searching for a way to enable that behavior via plasma-manager.

[magnouvean]

Setting config.showOnlyCurrentDesktop = false for the icontasks widget (or whatever task-management widget you use) should make this work.

[Mag1cByt3s]

I think i tried that already after investigating the source code.

This is what i tried:

{
            name = "org.kde.plasma.icontasks";
            config = {
              showOnlyCurrentDesktop = false;
              General.launchers = [
                "applications:org.kde.dolphin.desktop"
                "applications:org.kde.konsole.desktop"
                "applications:firefox.desktop"
                "applications:org.telegram.desktop.desktop"
                "applications:vesktop.desktop"
                "applications:codium.desktop"
                "applications:burpsuite.desktop"
                "applications:bloodhound.desktop"
                "applications:ghidra.desktop"
                "applications:re.rizin.cutter.desktop"
                "applications:org.wireshark.Wireshark.desktop"
              ];
            };
          }

Unfortunately that does not work:

error:
       … while calling the 'head' builtin

         at /nix/store/yqy82fn77fy3rv7lpwa9m11w3a2nnqg5-source/lib/attrsets.nix:1575:11:

         1574|         || pred here (elemAt values 1) (head values) then
         1575|           head values
             |           ^
         1576|         else

       … while evaluating the attribute 'value'

         at /nix/store/yqy82fn77fy3rv7lpwa9m11w3a2nnqg5-source/lib/modules.nix:809:9:

          808|     in warnDeprecation opt //
          809|       { value = builtins.addErrorContext "while evaluating the option `${showOption loc}':" value;
             |         ^
          810|         inherit (res.defsFinal') highestPrio;

       (stack trace truncated; use '--show-trace' to show the full trace)

       error: A definition for option `home-manager.users.<myuser>.programs.plasma.panels."[definition 1-entry 1]".widgets."[definition 1-entry 2]".config.showOnlyCurrentDesktop' is not of type `attribute set of (string or list of string)'. Definition values:
       - In `/nix/store/ccds4zcasg1vhci6mpa6vy5v8h1p8aq0-source/home-manager/modules/plasma-manager.nix': false

[Mag1cByt3s]

I even tried setting "false" as a string but that does not change it. Also it should be a boolean.

[Mag1cByt3s]

So i just found this plasma-manager config: https://github.com/keenanweaver/nix-config/blob/22b262c4fecf085f424f455698eab42fef29b586/modules/desktop-environments/kde/plasma-manager/laptop.nix#L26

that helped me to get the correct settings.

If i use these settings i get no errors:

{
            name = "org.kde.plasma.icontasks";
            config = {
              General = {
                showOnlyCurrentDesktop = "false";
                showOnlyCurrentActivity = "true";
                showOnlyCurrentScreen = "true";
                launchers = [
                  "applications:org.kde.dolphin.desktop"
                  "applications:org.kde.konsole.desktop"
                  "applications:firefox.desktop"
                  "applications:org.telegram.desktop.desktop"
                  "applications:vesktop.desktop"
                  "applications:codium.desktop"
                  "applications:burpsuite.desktop"
                  "applications:bloodhound.desktop"
                  "applications:ghidra.desktop"
                  "applications:re.rizin.cutter.desktop"
                  "applications:org.wireshark.Wireshark.desktop"
                ];
              };
            };
          }

[Mag1cByt3s]

Just tried it out, it works perfectly just as i wanted.

[magnouvean]

Yeah I forgot to need to put it in General. At the moment all the values for the config needs to be strings, even if what we want to write is a bool. This will hopefully change soon though. You can probably drop showOnlyCurrentActivity and showOnlyCurrentScreen and it will probably still work.