Got stuck in Fedora 43 KDE Plasma

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I tried Fedora 43 KDE Plasma on a USB … testing around … playing Solitaire …

  1. I made the title bar disappear but could not find out how to bring it back

  2. I managed to run in full screen but couldn’t return from full screen … taskbar gone … no way to quit the game … no way to quit Fedora 43 KDE Plasma … tried every Fxx key … Esc key … Del Key … had to switch off my computer the hard way.

I don’t think Linux is my cup of thee … to complicated.

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Sorry to hear you had a rocky experience!

I think I have an idea of what might have happened. Let me know if this is accurate:

  1. You maximized the window with the upward-facing arrow in the window’s titlebar
  2. You wanted to get rid of the titlebar and toolbar and just show the game view itself
  3. You couldn’t find an obvious way of doing that so you started hunting around in the less obvious places
  4. Eventually you right-clicked on the window’s still-visible titlebar, went to the “More” sub-menu, and then clicked on “No titlebar and frame”
  5. At this point, the titlebar disappeared, resulting in you having no visible way to escape from the situation you found yourself in.

Does that sound right?

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It’s probably way simpler than that…

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Maybe the “Show Menubar” option too, since they found no way to quit the app.

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Ctrl + Shift + F if no one tells you that you’ll never find it.

If you can’t make it simple you don’t understand it well enough (A. Einstein)

The more I experiment with lots of Linux-versions the more I understand why nobody wants it.

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The same is often said of many things in life that you encounter for the first time.

There is always some learning curve, Even for Windows and macOS.
There are many keyboard short cuts on Windows and macOS that I need to look up to find for example.

But the core of KDE plasma and Windows share a lot of the same short cuts.
I think originaly codified by the IBM CUA initiative long ago, for example Alt-F4 to exit a program, and Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, etc for Copy and Paste.

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Also:

Alt+Tab to cycle between apps
Meta+D to show the desktop and hide all apps

Those should work to get out of even a fullscreened app.

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I have Kdenlife - the video editor - and I love it.

But what hurts in KDE Plasma is the letter “k” in front of every application name, it is seriously annoying me. “kMail” why not just “Mail” ? It does that with everything.

I gave it a try.

I came across Zorin 18 … kinda like that one.

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So was it this, @PapaMouse ?

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My kPatience does not have that button … see image above. I think I stay with Windows for now. Switching to Linux is like going back in time … way back in time like … Windows ‘95.

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The “image above” doesn’t show what’s behind the button @ngraham pointed out:

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Please check it.

Another universal shortcut to enter and exit full-screen is F11.

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Yeah, you have to click the “View” menu, and then you’ll see a menu item named “Full screen Mode”.

Is that what you clicked to experience the original issue?

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Tell you? Wasn’t even aware the other OS’es, the ones that eeeeverybody wants, throw in a personal coach nowadays. But what do I know.

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