I have standard weather widget in my tray (KDE 6.5.6),
however there is no way to remove it, I enter into edit mode, and try to drag it, do anything, nothing happens, when I right click on it, I see standard context menu “Configure weather report”. (In fact every icon/widget provides just standard context menu in edit mode, so I can’t move or remove ANY widget from my tray…)
Is there a secret function to do that ?
I don’t have that specific widget in my panel, but I guess the same applies to all of them. I think you’re nearly there - additionally, you must click on the panel/taskbar you wish to edit and then hover the mouse over the widget you want to edit/remove.
I think you have to configure the system-tray-widget and set the visibility of the weather widget to never.
Right, the weather report is likely a part of the system tray widget and not a separate widget.
In that case, you’ll want to hit “Configure” System Tray widget instead, which will bring up a window. Find the weather report in the list of entries and set it to be hidden always.
This is how I always do it. If you’re in the panel’s configuration, you should just be able to hover over any widget and see a Remove button.
This sounds like something is somehow wrong with your “edit mode”.
The weather widget should (and on my system, definitely does) provide a “Remove” option when editing the panel configuration. Like @nathaniel.krebs said, it shows when hovering the mouse over it - doesn’t need a right-click.
This is in edit mode
as i mentioned, all widgets show their context menu under right click in edit mode.
and when I just hover over it
or in tray edit mode when I hover it display only “show panel configuration” in a middle - I can’t click it (if it’s clickable)
It’s because the weather report can both be a standalone widget or be embedded in the system tray. The one we appear to be dealing with is the one embedded in the system tray.
I’ve configured the embedded one just now in my system tray so I can hopefully guide you a bit better.
It should look roughly this inside the system tray configuration.
thx. but this is just hiding it - it’ll work for now. however I have other widget too, which has the same problem - I can’t remove it.
This is not available in the Plasma panel I have now…
Nobody’s mentioning versions, but I don’t see it on KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.6.
This is an issue/bug.
Messing with it now… I added one just today, but I wanted to move it.
Right click reveals three options…
So we should take the middle option, and this gives us the sidebar, and when you hover the panel all of the widgets are highlighted and a popup ‘Show panel configuration’ which is activated if you click the panel.
However, there’s no way to interact with widgets…
However, if you try clicking about (Right Mouse) you can occasionally get the context menu to pop up, but I haven’t yet managed to actually interact with it.
Something definitely messed up there.
However I just found a post saying there’s no problem with 6.6.3 on Manjaro (Unstable).
Instead, take the last option (“Show panel configuration”). Then mousing over each widget will offer “Remove” and “Configure” as in my screenshot above. You can also click and drag the widgets to move them around.
“Add or Manage Widgets” might be better titled simply “Add Widgets”. Most ‘management’ tasks are better achieved from “Show Panel Configuration”.
I’m on 6.6.3, but as far as I can remember it’s been like this for the year or so I’ve been using Plasma (since 6.3.something).
However, I use the Weather Report as standalone widget, not the one in the system tray. The latter one is handled differently, as @snackbar94 said.
No - but it’s also likely you just never used it before it got fixed again… I tested it on a fresh account, same story.
Yep, very possible!
To remove the other widget, try the following. I am using my system monitor widget to demonstrate.
The system tray icon can be “hidden” to just be in the overflow menu. That is the arrow at the far right of the system tray (to the right of the battery icon in your screenshot). Or it can be disabled completely so it doesn’t even show up in the popup. To achieve this, open the said overflow menu and click the settings icon:
Then, choose “Never show (disabled)” for “Weather report”. This will remove the icon completely:
I have 2 PCs with latest Kubuntus 25.10 (kde 6.5.6) and they behave the same. I CANNOT remove the widget using aforementioned procedures.
I choose “show panel configuration” from context menu, and then, when I hover mouse over the widget, I see only popup from that widget
this is second PC
I think I saw menu with red icons (possibly remove), when i right clicked on widget icon in edit mode, but for a split second - like 10ms, and then it dissapeared.
and no, advanced weather widget doesn’t appear in tray configuration items list
That’s exactly what we can’t get… though when randomly clicking around I did get such menus to appear very briefly…
It’s broken.
Also very important you state exactly what system you’re posting your solution for…
I’m using KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.6, @luk is using the same version, so it’s likely a bug not present with later versions of Plasma.
Another error in the thread is taking OP’s word that it’s in ‘the system tray’ as it really appears to be on the panel.
You are right, my bad. I am on 6.6.3.
