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I updated recently from kubuntu 14.04 to 18.04 and got new plasma 5.12.6. However, the widgets (like network manager, volume, battery, calendar etc) are all missing close buttons (crosses on the right top corner). I can close them by clicking the right icon on the toolbar again but it is slower and more difficult (first you need to know which icon to click, if it was opened accidentally, and second you need better eye-hand coordination since the toolbar icons are so small and close to each other). Instead of close buttons, there are useless pin buttons (which I always click accidentally, when searching for close).

I am also remembering that in old plasma, it was possible to close widget windows by clicking anywhere the toolbar.

Is this a new feature of plasma widgets? Is it possible to get the old close buttons back? Or the behaviour to close widgets by clicking the toolbar anywhere?

Edit: Below a screenshot showing the task bar and one widget open.

In my previous linux installations the bash auto-completion has always worked without problems. If I wanted to do anything to files, giving a prefix of the filename and pressing tabulator listed all that matched the prefix but it also repeated the prompt below it with my command and prefix, so that I could immediately continue typing.

Now I have updated my system to kubuntu 18.04 and the auto-completion doesn't work as fluently anymore. What is even stranger, the behaviour is unpredictable like it depended on the konsole. If the command is less, it works always correctly (as described above), but if the command is cp or mv, the behaviour varies. Sometimes it works correctly, but often it shows a list of matching files with more (hiding my prompt) and I have to type q to exit more and be able to continue. A small thing, but annoying since it requires extra typing.

I see that .bashrc calls /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion but I haven't done any changes to this.

Question: What causes this unpredictable behaviour? How can I fix it?