| name | plasmoid-manage |
| description | List, install, remove, and add Plasma widgets (plasmoids) to panels and the desktop. Use when the user wants to manage Plasma widgets at runtime — not develop new ones. |
Plasmoid Management
Runtime management of Plasma widgets. For developing new plasmoids, use the kde-plasmoid-dev plugin instead.
Tooling
kpackagetool6 --type=Plasma/Applet (Plasma 6) or kpackagetool5 --type=Plasma/Applet (Plasma 5).plasmashell evaluation via qdbus org.kde.plasmashell /PlasmaShell evaluateScript "<JS>".
Common operations
List installed plasmoids
kpackagetool6 --type=Plasma/Applet --list
Install from .plasmoid file or directory
kpackagetool6 --type=Plasma/Applet --install /path/to/foo.plasmoid
kpackagetool6 --type=Plasma/Applet --upgrade /path/to/foo.plasmoid
Remove
kpackagetool6 --type=Plasma/Applet --remove org.kde.plasma.foo
Add a widget to a panel (scripted)
qdbus org.kde.plasmashell /PlasmaShell evaluateScript '
var panel = panels()[0];
panel.addWidget("org.kde.plasma.foo");
'
Add a widget to the desktop
qdbus org.kde.plasmashell /PlasmaShell evaluateScript '
var d = desktops()[0];
d.addWidget("org.kde.plasma.foo");
'
Reload after changes
kquitapp6 plasmashell && kstart plasmashell
Notes
