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    What is this Sticky Notes?

    I wake up this morning and sit at the PC, using Kubuntu 22.04, doing my usual thing.
    I post a comment on YouTube, copy it to my Clipboard (in the system tray, bottom right of my screen).
    Later, I notice a bright yellow square in that system tray, next to Trash, Notifications, Clipboard.
    I click on it. And that comment I posted on YouTube is copied to this "Sticky Note" -- Desktop sticky note.
    AI tells me it is probably part of KNote, Plasma.
    I check Discover and Synaptic and KNote is NOT installed on my system.

    What is this Sticky Note that suddenly, this morning, appeared in the system tray? How did it get there?
    BTW, that same comment I copied to Clipboard is, in fact, also on the Clipboard, where it usually appears.

    I am just curious. It's interesting.
    An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski
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    Sticky notes are a standard Plasma widget going back to KDE 4.

    You most likely pasted or dragged or middle-mouse-clicked some text inadvertently onto the desktop.

    This was not an uncommon accident, up until probably the Plasma version in 22.04 or so. In KDE 4, you could almost breathe on some text or wave your cursor in the vicinity of some, and it would paste there, lol

    If it often happens, you might try looking at your desktop settings, via a right-click menu there. Check the mouse actions section. If there is one for middle-mouse pasting or similar, you can change or remove it. I can't recall if this exists in such an antediluvian version of KDE
    I do jest, but it is older than even Debian Stable,
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      #3
      claydoh, interesting! Been doing Kubuntu since 2007, and first time I have encountered it.
      I will follow through investigating, as you outlined.
      Kinda cool, too. ha-ha
      An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski
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        #4
        So far ...
        Yes, Sticky Notes 2.0

        Drag and drop:
        You can easily create sticky notes by highlighting text and dragging it to an empty area on your desktop.​
        That works to put a sticky note on my desktop.

        I also have a Sticky Notes 2.0 as -- apparently -- a Panel widget.
        So I need to figure out how to create it -- How did I create that this morning?!
        So far, I can't find any settings indicating my scroll button is actively doing it.

        More later ... I hope ...
        An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski
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          #5
          Middle-click:
          Another method is to copy text, then middle-click on the desktop to create a new sticky note containing the copied text​
          This works, assuming I have already placed a sticky note on the desktop -- I can copy and then middle-click text onto that existing note.

          What remains then is to investigate how the dickens I got a sticky note on my panel:
          bottom of screen, right side, in the Tray -- large bright yellow sticky note containing text I copied to the clipboard!
          An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski
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            Well, OK, so I did locate Sticky Note (not Notes plural) as a widget.
            Apparently, it must have already been installed automatically? although I never saw any trace of it until today.
            It's easy to use and actually quite useful on the desktop or in the system tray as a pop-up (left-click it).
            An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski
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              #7
              You don't mention deleting them. In case you don't know, to delete them, a long press with the mouse, or a shift-click, shows a remove button.
              Regards, John Little
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