kde-plasma-applet-menupager

Switch between virtual desktops using a menu.

I tried Plasma activities and I loved its power, but I settled on using Plasma's virtual desktops as it is unlikely to ever disappear and is well integrated and supported throughout Plasma. However, I liked the mental separation of context that activities provides and not just extra window real estate. In other words, virtual desktops can be used like that but I want to always see visually in which activity virtual desktop I currently am.

So, I created a nifty simple menu/mouse wheel pager to do just this:

Requirements

This Plasma applet has been tested with Plasma 6.6, use older releases for older versions of Plasma. Use version 0.1 is for Plasma 5, 0.2 for Plasma 6 and the last release for Plasma 6.6 and up.

Installation

1. Right click on your desktop, Add Widgets...
2. Get New Widgets...
3. Download New Plasma Widgets
4. Search "Menu Pager" and hit Install, or get it manually here.

You can also grab the tarball and install manually:

kpackagetool6 -i kde-plasma-applet-menupager-0.3.tar.gz

Screenshots

Changelog

####### 0.3 (works with Plasma 6.6)

• PR4: Add option to display the Desktop name + index
• Remove dead signal calls, everything still works without them.
• Ported away from old pagerModel and restored all features.
• Add shell.nix and .gitignore to for plasmoidviewer and qmllint.
• PR6: Fix Plasma 6.6 compatibility

####### 0.2

• Plasma6 release with new configuration options!

####### 0.1

• Initial version for Plasma5