It would be lovely to have the "Application Menu, a launcher based on cascading popup menus" as an icon in my i3bar
to have a general overview of the packages I have installed in my system, within each categories (Internet, Games etc.) I could not figure out how to start the applet in the i3
environment. Is there a command that could call the applet itself (may also start some KDE process that runs ONLY in the background)? Obviously, I do not want to start the whole KDE5.
I found that running plasmashell -ws
or plasmashell --windowed --shut-up
starts the whole KDE desktop as a window which can also manage windows started from within i3wm. However, that is such an overkill to just start one component/plasmoid. I found that kcmshell{4,5}
can be used to call a collection of modules that are available via kcmshell{4,5} --list
, but they are seemingly not plasmoids.