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After a lot of trouble, I finally got Netflix working on my Plasma Bigscreen using a remote!
#kde

PSA: In #kde Meta(Windows)-P brings up the menu to switch display configuration; so meta-P, enter switches you to external display only; Meta-P, Meta-P, enter brings you back to internal only. (enabling the HDMI on a laptop with a broken display)
Bonus advice: Label which monitor input your HDMI cable is going to so you can select it on the menu without trying all 3 of them, 6 times.

KDE Plasma 6.7 bringt Detailverbesserungen
Versionspflege: KDE hievt den Plasma-Desktop auf Stand 6.7. Jeder Bildschirm kann nun einen virtuellen Desktop bekommen.
https://www.heise.de/news/KDE-Plas…

@…

No it's not. And it's far from perfect. But it gets less on my nerves than KDE.

I suspect my path to a "as I want it" experience goes through a minimal set of building blocks around a (tiling) window manager and some config files.

But I haven't found the time for that yet.

I have prioritise…

Nushell in Tokyo. That ThinkPad for work is ready also, after the FreeBSD Mango desktop. KDE on FreeBSD has come a long way. Dots and howto to follow later on, but it was painless.
#freebsd #bsdseptember

TIL¹: UTF-8 basically came from² Plan 9.
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¹https://mastodon.well.com/@rk/117190782591698760
²https://…

Huge kudos to the #KDE team, #konsole now shows a little progress bar. This is nice

People should always be able to search by keyword rather than navigate menus.
Especially if we (who make human-computer interfaces) do not want people to turn to life-destroying chatbot interfaces.
Are #KDE and #Gnome or others working on a standard way to do that in each program?

Did you know that OpenBSD has KDE 6.7.4 and Mango 0.16.2 in its repo's? Both the latest versions. I certainly didn't. Remarkable. Bigger learning curve, but verryy interesting!
EDIT: And Ungoogled Chromium and LibreWolf. Say no more.
#openbsd

A huge shoutout to KDE Plasma’s screenshot tool.
The ability to make quick edits on screenshots, blur or pixelate irrelevant content is very useful.
Thank you devs ♥️
#kde #kdeplasma

from my link log —
Rust in a KDE project.
https://jbbgameich.github.io/misc/2020/12/21/rust-in-a-kde-project.html
saved 2020-12-28

@…

I didn't.
I got a Tuxedo InfinityBook earlier this year and tried to like KDE Plasma (in Tuxedo OS) for four months.
Couldn't do it.
Really tried. They put so much love into it, must be good, right?
Well, it's not for me.
Reinstalled with GNOME.
Happier, no regrets.

In the absence of meaningful progress from the KDE team before their stated X11 rugpull, SonicDE (a continuation of KDE-X11) may offer some hope, or if nothing else a bridge to some future æon when KDE-Wayland is finally sufficiently functional: https://sonicde.org/

Funkcja "extract full content" w czytniku RSS "Capy Reader" to takie złoto... Bardzo brakuje mi tego w akregatorze na KDE, przez co czytam newsy tylko na telefonie.

#RSS

Mapovšní šíření zškonů o ověřovšní věku na internetu
https://proton.me/cs/age-verification
Vlšdy po celém světě činí věk podmínkou pro přístup k určitým čšstem internetu. Tato stršnka sleduje, kde jsou takové zškony v účinnosti, kde se prosazují a jak k tomu různé země přistupují.
vypad…

On a different note: the first day of FreeBSD'ing was nice. Of course the windowmanager setup with Mango and Wayland needs some more attention at first (default sound, pipewire etc. you get it), but that KDE rocks already. An advantage of a DE: lock, stock and barrel included (mostly). In the workday all went smooth, including Joplin and Signal. Good stuff!
#freebsd

Hot take
The KDE fedora shipping on default on framework laptop is a good thing.

Not a view, exactly, but still a view. Fresh install today, hot off the press. Got myself a HP EliteOne 800 G5 for... basically nothing, so I couldn't really turn it down.

Hello #linux and #kde people specifically!
Is there a way to tell on the OS level if the system prefers a dark/light theme?
Not talking about running:
```bash
kreadconfig6 --group "General" --key "ColorScheme" --file kdeglobals
```
But someth…

Kudos to the maintainers of ChimeraLinux for putting such a gem together and quietly, but persistingly, updating it to the latest and greatest (here with KDE 6.7.3). Thanks! 🤓 🍻
#chimeralinux #kde

The network install of FreeBSD will show you the available adapters to choose from. The Ethernet adapter shows a lot of info, but the wifi one just said rtw88. Hence I never tried it and used a cheapo tp-link usb stick previously to install via wifi.
Today i did try it, and lo and behold, everything just installed fine 🤣 .
That ThinkPad will get KDE installed, on FreeBSD. Looking forward to it! It is my FreeBSD month after all 🥳

Only a few months left until KDE drops X11 forever, and they STILL haven't fixed fractional scaling in themes OR gesture configurability, both of which are fully working in X11, and the latter of which would be mitigated by simply stripping the hardcoded gestures currently baked into kwin_wayland and allowing the user to find their own way. (As ever, my kwin6 patches are available on GitHub if you'd like to do exactly that.)
I'm sure they're all working on Very Importan…

Usually you grab an LTS kernel for ZFS support. Chimera Linux has zfs support for the stable (atm 7.2.2) kernel. And LibreOffice 26.08 right now. And KDE 6.7.4 servicepack 2 as well. I'll be heading back soon, a gem!
#chimeraLinux

After a great month on ChimeraLinux and a week updating and running Obelix, my NixOS KDE, it is now time for a closer look at Kalpa. I'll spend a later blogpost on how I got there and what has actually been picked up very well in that project. Back on a roll!
#kalpa #opensuse

A new home for the work laptop. Introducing asterix-danang, my own bootc image, based on Fedora Kinoite. to be found here: https://github.com/danangineer/asterix-danang
KDE 6.7, distrobox, homebrew, all fluff removed.

What can you do when your home has been taken back by the landlord?
Talking KDE here, no worries.
With Jtown's demise (um grande abraço @… !) it also gives me freedom again.
And nothing is as brittle as my solemn pledges, so I'm (re)building my bootc KDE image. Don't want no one else but myself be responsible for the mess I make 😆

That hybrid approach applied. Chimera Linux takes care of a great base, including KDE. I use verified Flatpaks for all major things (librewolf, vlc etc). Distrobox for that one akward application I need. Setup of that on Chimera is as painless as it can be. I do the same on Slackware, although I make some essential pkgs myself also. So, trusted base, containerized applications. No AUR here. Anymore 🤣

Mostly (points at himself) it's staring you in the face. I wanted for the work laptop: musl, zfs and encryption, no systemd, the latest KDE. And then i remembered the excellent write-up by @… , installing a Chimera Linux base with all that. And Chimera has 6.7 in the repos. A perfect combo!

Realized I'm currently running KDE, Gnome and Cosmic. For the 1st time since 2019 there's no windowmanager around. Am I sundowning my ADD? I sure am getting lazy. Let's grab that Slackware iso later today and get me some tilers.

Is there any specific explanation why KDE Wayland on FreeBSD uses so much RAM? 2.3 to 2.5 gb? For me personally it doesn't matter, all these discussions are beyond me, it's not 1972 anymore. But it is noticeable and I wonder why.
#freebsd

That Dakotaraptor is awesome. This mornings iso did work for me. 7:49 minutes install, encrypted, tpm unlock, homebrew, distrobox, flatpak, GnomeOS. Most interestingly: this is not a distro, it's an image, with everything included. Hope the team will make a KDE Dakota. But this is great. Exciting tech that just works.
#bluefin