I've been too busy lately to really play around with Linux stuff too much, but I've had some time recently so I installed mint on an older desktop that I had. One of the first things I did was enable the bouncy ball, with auto bounce turned on. That was mistake number 1...mistake number two came when i tried to turn it off, I accidentally clicked the expand/minimize button, making it far too small to catch. I have spent 15 minutes trying to catch it, I have locked and unlocked widgets, ended the plasma desktop process, logged out, and restarted. If anyone knows how to disable this, please, let me know!!

Thanks,
Nbiser

You made my day :-D

I'd suggest you try to kill the process before turning mad :

ps aux | less #to identify the process
kill XXX #where XXX is the pid of the process you previously identified

Then locate the right .desktop file that (I guess) is automatically starting the ball to bounce.

My way (might not be the simplest) :
As root, run
updatedb
Then as normal user
locate *.desktop

Find the faulty one and delete it (rm /path/to/the/file).

Feel free to use a pipe to grep if you know the program's name (ps aux | grep thename).

Beware, the ball might not be launched from a .desktop file... Let us know.

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Just found around here :
kquitapp

Use this command if you want to quit a KDE application gracefully. This won't work if the program is in a locked state. In that case there's still kill.

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Hi!

Thanks for the response, looking back at it I guess that it was kind've amusing I had already checked the process with ps earlier, tho I did so again just to make sure. The bouncy ball doesn't show up in processes ( I think because it is a KDE widget, and thus is part of the plasma process). It also wasn't included in the Desktop directory. However, thinking about the KDE-plasma process make me remember that KDE has activities; each activity, with it's own separate widgets, wallpapers, etc., so I created a new activity and deleted the old one, which, of course, removed the ball.

Thanks for the help!
Nbiser

Glad you made it! And might be useful to remember.