# Activities

Yuri Chornoivan yurchor@ukr.net
2021-04-12
Plasma 5.20
KDE Systemsettings activity

## Activities

### Introduction

This module allows configuring activities. Activities are a way to have multiple &plasma; setups, with each a different set of widgets and themes. Some activities can be private. Such activities do not track your actions. For example, they do not track what recent document you opened.

The module is divided into two tabs: Activities and Switching.

#### Activities

This tab lists your current activities. Hover items in the list with the mouse pointer to reveal the buttons to configure or remove activities.

Use the overlay button to configure activity. You can change the following activity parameters:

Icon

  The icon of activity can be seen on the activity manager selector of the &plasma; panel. Click on the current icon to choose some system-wide icon or browse the file system to select a custom icon.

Name

  Give your activity a recognizable name.

Description

  A free-form description of the activity that is shown below the name on the activity manager selector of the &plasma; panel.

Privacy

  Check the Do not track usage for this activity item to switch off any tracking for your activity.

Shortcut for switching

  Press the first button to input the new shortcut to switch to the activity. Press the second button to remove the current shortcut.

Clicking on the button removes the activity.

Clicking on the Create New... button below the list opens Create a New Activity dialog which is similar to the activity configuration dialog described above.

#### Switching

Here, you can configure if &plasma; should remember the Current virtual desktop for each activity (needs restart). It is also possible to configure shortcuts for walking through the list of activities.

For more information on how to use the &kde; shortcut system, see the Using and Customizing Shortcuts section of the &kde; Fundamentals documentation.