Stop Plasma from picking up tray icons

[medwatt]

I have been using the KDE + i3 setup for about 2 weeks now, but I have some issues.

I use a dual monitor setup. The KDE pager widget does not support i3's idea of workspaces and so I have started using the i3 panel. My issue is I cannot see the tray icons in the on the i3 panel. I believe the reason for this is that the tray icons are picked up by the kde panel, even though the kde panel is already deleted. I confirmed this by starting i3 without kde. So, my question is how do I disable the kde panel when using i3?

[avivace]

Did you try to play with KDE services? It's probably one of them "picking" up the notifications/tray icons..

• systemsettings -> Startup and Shutdown -> Service Manager -> uncheck "Status Notifier Manager"

[medwatt]

This doesn't work, unfortunately.