Disable media controls on lockscreen in KDE
2019-12-12
Problem:
When VLC, Google Chrome, Firefox or any other app that can play media is launched, KDE draws media controls (play/pause, next, previous buttons + album art) on lock screen. I don’t like it.
Solution:
100% works on Kubuntu 18.04.
Open up terminal and run the following:
kwriteconfig5 --file kscreenlockerrc --group Greeter --group LnF --group General --key showMediaControls --type bool false
This command will append the following lines to ~/.config/kscreenlockerrc
[Greeter][LnF][General]
showMediaControls=false