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KDE & Plasma users
- Different Widgets for each desktop...
Claude.ai tells me that this exists but I don't see it on Kubuntu 18.04 or 22.04.
A checkbox or toggle switch labeled "Different widgets for each desktop" or "Separate widget sets for each desktop"
Is this real and what do I have to do to get to it?
x-y problem:
What I really want is a "sub-desktop" like a subfolder of a folder, but looking like a desktop - preferably without switching activities or opening an actual folder in Dolphin.
My problem is that with cryptocurrencies, I have icons for price URLs, icons for staking URLs, and icons for wallets. They're conceptually all part of one thing I'm doing, but there are too many to fit comfortably on one desktop.
And, I get them all arranged in groups on the screen exactly the way I want them and then I accidentally change resolution on an external monitor... and KDE rearranges them all in alphabetical order making the desktop almost useless.
At least if I could break them up into groups, it would be easier to recover from the above disaster.
Maybe having a bunch of activities would do it. I'm not sure how to approach this.
- Using exponents in basic Kcalc
I am doing some Bitcoin calculations where I enter integer values (Satoshis) and then need to multiply them by 10**-8 to get the value in Bitcoins, e.g. to calculate price in US dollars.
I don't see how to do this other than by saving 0.00000001 in my clipboard.
I sort of got positive exponents to work, but the exponent functionality disappears as soon as I type a minus sign for the exponent for 10**-8 because it gets interpreted as a subtraction operator instead of as a unary sign.
I can just divide by 10**8 which works, but it's not quite as intuitive for me.
Is there a better way to do this?
Is this a bug?
I'm using Kcalc 23.04.3 in a flatpak on Kubuntu 22.04.
- Kate word characters
I have a plain text journal/log that I write and edit in Kate. This contains a number of floating point numbers and I often copy and paste them into Kcalc or LibreOffice Calc.
I would like to be able to double click on one of them and have it all selected so I can copy it into the clipboard. This does not work because it only selects the digits on one side of the decimal or the other which forces me to use the mouse to select the whole number - which is slower and more work for me.
When I'm doing this, I'm doing it a lot, so speed makes a difference to me.
Is there a way to temporarily tell Kate that the period/decimal is a word character so the double click will work?
Some of my numbers also have commas in them as thousands separators for readability, so including the comma as a word character would be nice as well.
This behavior would not be good as a permanent setting unless I could restrict it to something like a particular Kate profile... because I need the normal behavior the rest of the time.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
- Minimal Menu?
So....I updated my Manjaro to Plasma 6. Any chance that Minimal Menu (or something similar) exists?
I was not happy to find it gone. It's been a part of my system for so long that I honestly just forgot it wasn't default.
Now it doesn't even show up in the widget search and I'm honestly not sure I can live without it, largely because I can choose to centre it in the display on launch rather than having to choose either a) full-screen or b) right above the icon.
I can't even describe how upsetting it was to reboot after the update....
- KDE 22.04 Login Spinner
Part of the KDE login process on Kubuntu 22.04 shows me a gear spinner for a very short while. What does that signify? It still takes a while after it disappears before anything else happens.
- KDE Plasma 6.0.4 Is Out to Improve Plasma Wayland, System Monitor, and More - 9to5Linux9to5linux.com KDE Plasma 6.0.4 Is Out to Improve Plasma Wayland, System Monitor, and More - 9to5Linux
KDE Plasma 6.0.4 is now available as the fourth maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment series fixing more bugs.
- I finally started using Virtual Desktops, now I feel clean and comfy
Its also a sickness, after tidying my room and thinking I was finished, I had the strong urge to create a smooth Workflow where I also can't distract myself that easily.
I should have continued my work instead, that's why I said its a sickness. You get distracted by playing with your Desktop. But this wasn't that bad, it will stay forever.
I allowed myself to work on coding or school stuff on my first Virtual Desktop. Gaming on my second (and I use save session together with W window rules to make Steam spawn only on that Virtual Desktop). Additionally I allow Discord and Waterfox to stay on both Workspace and Gaming Space for chat/voice and music. Additionally I use often times my 3D Printer and thought, why not creating a Virtual Desktop for it so I can also easily create Art in Blender or also use Krita inside that Workspace besides accessing Octoprint. This will be my artistic space then. Misc is a Virtual Desktop where I use Signal Desktop and Syncthing, or manage System Settings whenever I feel I don't wan't to do it on any other Virtual Desktop.
I love KDE!
- Plasma 6 Wayland + NVIDIA
I've just upgraded to Plasma 6 on EndeavourOS and X11 works, but booting on Wayland via SDDM gives me a blank screen. The display enters power saving mode and switching to a TTY doesn't wake it up.
Anyone else having this problem, or with a workaround suggestion?
NVIDIA Driver 550.54.14-4 Operating System: EndeavourOS KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.1 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.0.0 Qt Version: 6.6.2 Kernel Version: 6.7.8-arch1-1 (64-bit)
- KDE Plasma 6 and Debian?
When can I expect to be able to install Debian on a device (let's say, I'd use the "testing" branch) and have the choice to use KDE Plasma 6 as UI?
Can I expect this to happen during the next months?
Just curious...
PS: I'm not interested in other distributions, just the raw Debian with Plasma 6...
- New KDE theme that looks very similar to Windows 7gitgud.io wackyideas / AeroThemePlasma · GitLab
A KDE Plasma theme that aims to replicate the look and feel of Windows 7.
This one looks pretty damn good if you are into the look Windows 7 had.
- KDE Plasma 6 Tip: How to remove watermark preview banner from desktop
Hello!
Do you hate the watermark preview banner?
Add the text
HideDesktopPreviewBanner=true
just after[General]
in the file~/.config/kdeglobals
. You will have something as the following:[General] HideDesktopPreviewBanner=true
Better for OLEDs displays, stylish, auto-suspend all-blacks displays, etc.
Src: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/b15d9f41f7f41210b1dd5a78dc1b1894bd40c3dd#16f843a94440a858a2387e36472454ab5685e179_193_196
- This Week in KDE – Adventures in Linux and KDEpointieststick.com This Week in KDE – Adventures in Linux and KDE
Posts about This Week in KDE written by Nate
- Shortcut for dismissing notifications?
is there a shortcut for dismissing notifications in KDE? They go away on their own but a shortcut would be great
- Is there a way to get the "Plasma Integration" plugin working for flatpak sandboxed browsers?
Thank you in advance :)
- Allow Okular to reload previously open files
This may help some folks who want to use Okular but also have their PDF files reopen between restarts. You can call saveokular.sh from cron and some other tricks so this is all seamless:
$ cat /usr/local/bin/openokular.sh
#!/bin/bash
Check if the file with paths exists
if [ ! -f ~/.okular_open_files.txt ]; then
echo "No saved PDF paths found."
exit 1
fi
Open PDFs in Okular
echo $1 >> ~/.okular_open_files.txt
sed -i '/^$/d' ~/.okular_open_files.txt
cat ~/.okular_open_files.txt | xargs -d '\n' /usr/bin/orig_okular &
$ cat /usr/local/bin/saveokular.sh
#!/bin/bash
if pid=$(ps -C orig_okular -o pid= | sed -e 's/\s//g') && [[ -n $pid ]]; then
ls -l /proc/"$pid"/fd | grep '.pdf' | awk -F ' -> ' '{print $2}' > ~/.okular_open_files.txt
fi
- Support Plasma 6 - KDE Communitykde.org Support Plasma 6
Spark Innovation with Your Donation Exciting news on the horizon! In February 2024, Plasma 6 is set to make its grand debut.
- Just an idea to improve background image handling
For the Slideshow option on Desktop Settings / Wallpaper, and the user is using the Random order and a new file appears in one of the wallpaper folders, make that image the next one to show.
- November Plasma 6 updatepointieststick.com November Plasma 6 update
Well, I skipped October, oops. So it’s been two months since my last Plasma 6 update, but you can find all kinds of other good stuff about Plasma 6 on including this post from Kai. Probably t…
Probably the big news is that we released the Plasma 6 Alpha today! What does that mean? Well, go read this blog post by David Edmundson to find out! In a nutshell, you should try out the Plasma 6 Alpha out using one of these distros (or by building it yourself using kdesrc-build) if you’re an adventurous person who has a backup and wants to help make the final release better by reporting bugs or even fixing them. It really does help!
- The New Plasma 6 Default Icon Theme Looks 🔥🔥🔥!
They look like a mix of Oxygen and Breeze. And look absolutely beautiful!
Much better than the current Breeze icons which look overly simple and flat.
This is the type of visual overhaul I was talking about.
These icons coupled with a great default wallpaper will make Plasma 6 look awesome!
Thanks to the great work from Ken Vermette who initially created the new icon set, and Niccolò Venerandi, who took over and improved it!
- How to use only part of the screen on wayland?
Hello,
I'm trying to get kwin-wayland to use just a part of my monitor, with X11 I did it with xrandr, but I'm not sure how to best do that with Wayland.
I have a messed up monitor and using only the bottom right corner makes it more acceptable, but for that I need no pixel lit on the top left corner.
Thanks for any hint!
- On the Road to Plasma 6, Vol. 4 – Kai Uwe's Blog
"Chill your Champagne bottles – it’s official: the KDE Plasma 6.0 + KDE Frameworks 6.0 + KDE Gear 24.02 Mega Release™ that will take KDE software to the next level is going to happen on 28th February 2024! Let’s have a look at what I’ve been up to in the past two months, again working mostly on either Qt itself or dealing with its behavior changes on the application side."
- This week in KDE: Plasma 6 Alpha approachespointieststick.com This week in KDE: Plasma 6 Alpha approaches
Time has a way of creeping up, and the Plasma 6 alpha release is in two days. People are scrambling to get their features in before either the soft feature freeze (on Monday) or the hard one (a few…
- THE KUBE IS BACK!
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cross-posted from: https://floss.social/users/kde/statuses/111335412278767938
> THE KUBE IS BACK! > > https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/merge\_requests/188 > > @kde@lemmy.kde.social
- Annoyance: tooltips displaying for inactive windows
I'm a new user of KDE having recently installed OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I'm happy with most of it, but I have one big annoyance: the incessant appearance of tooltips and them not going away when the mouse moves. This is on X11, not Wayland.
I often have windows overlapping or next to each other. When switching windows and moving the mouse, I move over an inactive window to the active one. A tooltip then appears for an item of the inactive window that is in the background. In my opinion it shouldn't, because the window is inactive, but it does. What is even more annoying is that the tooltip will remain on screen, over the active window, even when I maximize the active window. It will be displayed on top of it. It often happens that I fullscreen a video only for there to be a tooltip from an inactive window displayed over it, or a tooltip from the program that spawned the fullscreen video.
The only way to remove the tooltip is to activate the inactive window, move my mouse so the tooltip disappears, switch to the previous window again and then very carefully make sure I don't trigger any new tooltips in the inactive window. I'm not always successful at this, which means I have to repeat this process. This seriously impacts my enjoyment of the system.
I have already tried some solutions, disabling tooltips for titlebars in the System settings/Appearance/Window Decorations/Titlebar Buttons section and unchecking the "Display informational tooltips on mouse hover" checkbox in Workspace behaviour. Signing out and back in and rebooting have no effect. The options just don't do anything, except remove the window preview tooltips from the Task Manager, which I do need to navigate between windows. These previews should not be classified as tooltips in my opinion, but that's another matter.
What are some other options I could try? Even though I appreciate tooltips sometimes to help me learn about this new system, at this point I'd rather there be none at all than having to deal with this annoying behaviour. Ideally I would like to disable tooltips for inactive windows, or conversely only show them for active windows. If that's not possible however, I'd like to learn how to disable them completely since the options in settings have no effect.
Some software information: KDE: 5.27.8 KDE Frameworks: 5.110.0 Qt: 5.15.11 Kernel: 6.5.6-1-default (64-bit) Graphics platform: X11
Thanks for any suggestions.
- There's a simple way to put the same wallpaper to desktop, SDDM and lock-screen?
I like to have the same wallpaper for every aspect of the system, maybe there's a script?
- Making Dolphin toolbar and addressbar thinner?
After installing KDE on my laptop and spending few hours configuring it to my liking, I found that I can't make toolbar in Dolphin as thin as I would like without impacting usability. Currently it looks like this:
While I want it to look like this:
Is there any way to do this? A thinner theme (one that hopefully has GTK counterpart)? Application specific override? Setting that I have overlooked?
- This week in KDE: time for the new featurespointieststick.com This week in KDE: time for the new features
The floodgates opened this week, and a lot of consequential in-progress work was merged: juicy new Plasma 6 features, long-awaited bugfixes, spicy automated testing, and more!!! Plasma 6 General in…
- KDE for Gamers – Enjoy Your Games on Plasma and Linux
Whether you are into casual, retro or AAA #gaming, KDE has something for you 🎮🎲!
- This week in KDE: an unfrozen panel for NVIDIA Wayland userspointieststick.com This week in KDE: an unfrozen panel for NVIDIA Wayland users
Though the number of total Plasma 6 known issues rose this week, we managed to fix some major and longstanding ones from Plasma 5! You might recognize a few in the text below. Ultimately, these wer…
- This week in KDE: more Plasma 6 devpointieststick.com This week in KDE: more Plasma 6 dev
This week it was pretty much all Plasma 6 all the time. With the release date four and a half months away, work is kicking into high gear to make sure that we hit our deadline! Plasma 6 General inf…
- On the Road to KDE Plasma 6, Vol. Ⅲ – Kai Uwe's Blog
Another month, another Plasma 6 update. I’ve been pretty busy during the past weeks, mostly further improving the Wayland session, fractional scaling, and dealing with Qt bugs. Working under the hood like this is tremendously important albeit somewhat ungrateful when there aren’t any pretty pictures to show.
- Top-right-pixel in Gtk Apps
In the weekly kde blog post by Nate Graham on 31st March 2023 it is stated this issue has been fixed and I haven't seen anyone mentioning this issue afterwards.
If you don't know, the issue is when a gtk app is maximized with its own title bar when you click the top right pixel on your screen it should trigger the most right button on there.
You can see the post I mentioned here
Is anyone still having this issue or am I alone?
- Sync Kate terminal with file position over ssh
Hi everyone!
I am using Kate happily, and I'd like to ask a question to experts: when I open a file over ssh, the terminal in Kate requires a manual connection. Is it possible to a) have it synced automatically, or b) use the same connection that Kate uses to open the files so that one does not need to insert the password again?
Thank you :)
- Change colour of Desktop Effects Track Mouse rings
Wondering if there is any way to change the rings to higher contrast colours, from the default white and grey? The settings seem to be in ~/.config/kwinrc file, but it has no colour options that I know of. It seems like an obvious choice to want to have.
The Mouse Click Animation has some great options, but it is only on actual clicking of the mouse keys (and yes I thought maybe I could set this to long duration, but it maxes out at 999 ms.