KDE Plasma Workspace annoying context boxes

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Hi, AlmaLinux 9.7 here.

I then decided to install KDE via instruction here > AlmaLinux After-Installation Guide | AlmaLinux Wiki

By passing > sudo dnf groupinstall "KDE Plasma Workspaces"

Then machine was power cycled. Now when using Gnome I am seeing various entries related to KDE in the applications menu, is this typical?

Also at SDDM when selecting and starting Gnome, a KDE Connect Daemon closed unexpectedly dialog box is displayed (each time Gnome is started).

Then machine is power cycled.

At SDDM when selecting and starting KDE, a smaller dialog box popup titled Dr Konqi: KDE Connect has closed unexpectedly displays. It seems to display often. Example, attempting to play music video with VLC.

Just wondering if this is typical behavior? Is there something I can look into more deeply on how to possibly resolve this?

Edit: When attempting to use DR. Konqi to report the bug it will not succeed and the spinning gear continues to turn..…..

-Thanks

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Generally, you don’t get to run both 2 desktop environments at the same machine without problems. They interfere in all kinds of ways and startup jobs having issues is expected.

Though there is an app that tries to fix most of this and that works quite well in my experience: Mending Wall on Flathub

Make sure Flathub repo is enabled otherwise flatpak install mendingwall won’t find anything:

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I installed KDE following this - https://linux.how2shout.com/installing-kde-plasma-on-almalinux-9-or-rocky-linux-step-by-step/

Been running Linux desktops for decades with more than one desktop.

If you have two desktops your applications menu will show ALL available items . For instance I have the Gnome terminal and the KDE terminal , two file managers. You can use either without any problems.

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Which is result of two things:

  • Install of each DE tends to install their selection of application packages, explicitly or as dependency
  • Each application package drops .desktop files into /usr/share/applications
  • The DE populates its “Applications” list from those files

A long time ago, was probably Gnome 2 and Xfce, the Xfce had its way to show icons on the desktop. The Nautilus process did that for Gnome. If you had Xfce session, but did start Nautilus (file manager) instead of Xfce’s file manager, then Nautilus did draw desktop on top of Xfce’s desktop, hiding all the Xfce’s icons. That was a “where are my icons?” moment. That is to say that some things could happen.

I don’t know about KDE though.

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