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Switch KDE Activities With a Bash Script

Yes, there’s this Activity Manager panel on the left, but I hate it there. On my 32:9 it is too far to reach. One may say that a true Linux person shouldn’t move hands away from keyboard at all 😄 but well, we all have our ways. I, for one, prefer a nice set of icons right on my autohiding panel in the middle of the screen. That’d be possible with a bunch of application links in ~/.local/share/applications/, making them refer to some script which would switch activity by name.

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