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I commonly have this issue with both Unity and KakaoTalk - the apps constantly do this "alert" or "Request Attention" state where they appear orange and become visible on the task bar of all virtual desktops:

KakaoTalk requesting attention in KDE

How can I disable this? I checked the Task Manager settings, KWin rules, switching to Icons-only mode, but haven't found something that works.

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The feature you want to remove is a feature of the "task manager" widget.

There is a much more simplistic "task-manager-like" plasma widget named "Window list" which does not implement this feature.

  • Right click on the plasma dock and enter the edit mode,
  • Click on the Add Widget button,
  • Scroll down the list of widgets until you find the Window list widget,
  • Drag and drop it somewhere into your dock

And, if it fits your needs, you can then remove the task-manager widget.

Beware, unlike the task-manager widget, this window list does not come with any pre-installed launcher, you might want to add them individually into your dock after the removal of the task manager widget.

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  • Window List works, but it's too simplistic as it only shows the current active window instead of all of them. I appreciate the answer though <3
    – Dr-Bracket
    Commented Dec 8, 2023 at 0:04
  • @Dr-Bracket : ??? mine is showing everything opened. One app (window opened) on each one of my four virtual desktops (spectacle on fourth) all shown in the list (apart from spectacle (which is normal) i.imgur.com/5BMfQHE.png
    – MC68020
    Commented Dec 8, 2023 at 9:50
  • Task Manager shows all open windows side by side which is what I want (it's only the "Alert" I want to rid of)
    – Dr-Bracket
    Commented Dec 9, 2023 at 4:54

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