Tootfinder

Since currently the pop-up window functionality of GoldenDict-ng is kind of bugged on KDE, this script might help.
You'll need kdotool and wl-clipboard. Add the script to the KDE menu and set a global keyboard shortcut. The shortcut will also work if the clipboard is empty (just showing GoldenDict).
#GoldenDict

@… Thought you might be interested in this printer discussion that came up in response to KDE Linux dropping the hplip package/kernel. Apparently there's whole sets of printers still being sold that only work with hplip and don't support ipp?

Ich paar mal kde ausprobiert, aber aus irgendeinen grund bin ich da nicht zurecht gekommen. Nun möchte ich doch nochmal kde mir anschaun, da kde ja 30 jahre alt geworden ist. 30 jahre ist ne lange Zeit, wielange gibts windows ?

Still enjoying Linux desktop but some edges are rough. Today's goal: play the new Boards of Canada album from the download I just bought.
The good thing about Linux is there's almost always some workaround, there must be 100 ways to play music in this environment. It's just comical than this simple task is so complicated.

There currently are two recent #Phoronix articles that are shared widely, comparing #KDE KWin 6.6 vs #Gnome Mutter 50 in terms of game performance (one for AMD, one for Nvidia). What it lacks to me …

The unintended consequences of living on the edge of FreeBSD. Self inflicted damage done 😆
#freebsd #kde
https://…

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

Český zaměstnanec drží hubu a krok a zůstšvš v pršci, kde to pro něj nemš smysl - Měšec.cz - https://www.mesec.cz/clanky/cesky-zamestnanec-drzi-hubu-a-krok-a-zustava-v-praci-kde-to-pro-nej-nema-smysl/
„Češi se bojí měnit …

@… @… expect FreeBSD Installer for 15.1 to offer KDE Plasma and applications, and X.Org.
<https://www.

Libreoffice started the enshittification that I already saw in KDE by mutilating menus that have been there for decades. This seems to be the new thing in OSS development. I can't really advance things, so I just change UI stuff because I can do it. Maintainers shouldn't accept that enshittification.

Montar mediante sshfs un directorio del NAS y que se vea en Dolphin dentro de "Remotos" al instante es una maravilla de usabilidad #KDE

Weiss jemand worauf KDE Neon basiert ? Ich meine das ist Debian .. aber bin mir nicht sicher ..

So much for being crusty.
Slackware Current, kernel 7.0.10 and Plasma 6.7 beta 2 (6.6.91).
Thnks @… 🍻 🥳
#slackware #kde

@…

Why the hell do I constantly have problems with KDE Plasma and that piece of crap Akonadi???? Constant error messages, crashes, etc. whenever I try to connect to a calendar! It doesn't matter at all whether I try the Nextcloud Calendar, iCloud Calendar, or Google Calendar. And when I remove an online calendar, everything freezes—the entire KDE desktop. I’ve had this problem for years, no matter which version of KDE I use. I never have these kinds of problems with GNOME or GNOME Calendar.…

My desktop is KDE Plasma, but I also like to use GNOME apps.
I find funny how this weird mix of Qt GTK4 happens to be exactly like the weird mix of Win32 UWP on Windows.
#Linux #Desktop #Windows

Passage du fedora KDE/plasma des enfants de fedora 43 Š 44.
#visMaVieDeSysadmin

Hey @… can I request attention towards:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=515271
I like

RE: https://floss.social/@kde_espana/116597178570031919
＂Just a month ago, we managed to bring you a new episode of KDE Express.
As usual, you can find the episode notes with all the links at:

@stu@chaos.social that's pretty easy. Go to system settings and look for session. If I'm correct there's a checkbox there to log you in automatically (not on KDE atm)
https://userbase.kde.org/System_Settings/Login_Screen/en

Found a hidden gem from the End of 10 campaign today! And since Microsoft was forced to extend Windows 10 support for a year in the EU, it's still relevant 😌
Link where I got the audio from: https://invent.kde.org/websites/endof10-org/-/blob/…

«PWAs ohne Browser – eine Fingerübung im Vibe-Coding:
PWA steht für Progressive Web App und bezeichnet eine moderne Webanwendung, die wie eine native App aussieht und funktioniert, aber über den Webbrowser aufgerufen wird.»
Mit PWA werde ich mich auch noch beschäftigen. Gut hat nun @… einen Artikel geschrieben und dies ist sicherlich schon ein g…

TIR (today I realised) that in KDE/Linux you can place all kinds of interesting files in ~/Templates, for instance:
"CREATE_URL.url"
containing the text:
[InternetShortcut]
URL=PASTE_URL
and the Dolphin file manager will allow you to choose it from the "Create New" menu. Neat 🙂

well... turns out that pieces of KDE (and certainly Flatpaks) will break if your user's shell is configured to ignore /etc/zsh{env,rc}

@… Właśnie do paczkomatu dotarła do mnie przenośna drukarka - idę odebrać i zobaczę, bo też mam KDE - dam znać ;)

Nawet do Dophin (managera plików) jak trzeba, to dodam akcję, żeby na prawy przycisk drukowało ;)

RE: #GNOME test run after a couple of months and switched to KDE.

As said before musl-based AlpineLinux really rocks. Of course running all required stuff, like a full KDE session, a firewall and podman (for distrobox), flatpak for all 'bigger' applications and still clocking in at 903Mb. For me that shows how lean everything has been put together. Cool.
#alpinelinux

Prave jsem ujel 35km, abych poslal balicek Zasilkovnou. A hovno. Zkusil jsem zbox i prodejnu, kde to maji. Dvakrat jsem zaplatil postovne, a balicek jsem si zase privezl domu. Kdyz se mi smejete, ze pisu ze TADY je posta lepsi nez Zasilkovna...a to i presto, ze posta z vina udelala 5cm vysokou placku.
@… posli mi pls do sz normalni adresu, ja na tyhle …

KDE Partition Manager just nuked my fucking work drive. I have a backup, but WTF.

Does KDE or GNOME have hardware requirements?
Like minimum amount of ram or CPU architecture? GPU as well, might need a minimum of something.
I mean technically they do, I wonder if they have been formalized.

@… installing kde no longer automatically installs plasma6-plasma. <https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/desktop/#kde-environment&gt…

I saw an Explaining Computers video about the Peripad-506 trackpad, and while he cautioned that not all features were working outside of Windows, enough of it worked in Linux that I wanted to get it, as I need something gentle on the hand at the moment. I'm happy to report that it just works great in KDE. Maybe it is better supported now than when he tested it; gestures, 2- and 3-finger taps etc. work great, and I'm using it on a tablet that already has a trackpad, but they show up a…

OK, snapdragon laptop-ish now running as my second machine rather than a ~10-15 year old Intel laptop. It's running Debian/sid and KDE; heck - it's actually a useful aarch desktop!!
(not quite stable yet, and I've pinched bits from the ubuntu x1e world)

Hmmmm, I can't get KDE's contacts/calendar apps to work with my Radicale caldav/carddav server at all... Even tho Planify and all iOS apps work fine with it.
KDE's apps can fetch all collections on the adding server screen, but won't show them on the main views (plus says "offline" in settings)

The install description for a KDE Wayland session on FreeBSD has been updated with some additional software choices. The page on Codeberg is up to date also.
#freebsd #kde

openSUSE Release Engineering meeting 01.04.2026
> GNOME 50.0 (In progress of debugging the openQA issue: KDE 'upgrades' to GNOME)
😁
#opensuse

With all my explorations going on, it's easy to forget that both my Slackware KDE and Gentoo dwm installs are on the cutting edge of basically everything and just humming along nicely. Through all kernel upgrades and beta software (kde 6.7!) they just work. Amazing tools!

Hey @… with the recent birthdate field being introduced into systemd and the lead developer being obnoxiously stupid about it, Plasma desktop relying more on systemd feels wrong.
Given the circumstances, I urge you to please reconsider systemd dependency on KDE platform and if possible, please think of alternatives.
When you said X11 is getting axed from the cod…

my plan was almost going perfectly: the ssd delivery got delayed by one day, the pc didn’t boot the first time after installing it, but was all solved by literally tapping randomly on some cables, fedora’s second ever message on screen was a “command not found” error, but it booted anyway, I assumed I would get KDE but I got GNOME…
and now I’m too tired to use it 😭

Cestou do nemocnice jsem nechal zimni auto v servisu. Pojedu zpatky autobusem. Drzte mi palce at to preziju a at nezabloudim.
Kde se kupuje nejaka jizdenka? U ridice? A co mam delat kdyz chci vystoupit? Je tam furt nejakej cudlik?
Mam sluchatka a v sobe morfin, snad to bude ok. ;)

The month on Alpine KDE has finished; it is time to refresh the install. Or should i say turn back the page?
Landed on Tumbleweed KDE, my own specific install that is. Server Plasma6 Plasma6-session and some other stuff.
Tumbleweed KDE was my main distro for about 6 to 7 months before, only surpassed in durability by Slackware KDE made by @… (a bit ove…

Me gusta mucha lo bien que funciona Sailfish Connect con KDE connect para enviar cosas del PC al móvil y viceversa.

Hi #LazyWeb my #KDE on #NixOS no longer differentiates my #Jitsi meet app from my

@… thanks.
Not directly related, a review of <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484259> may be timely:
― Auto login behaviour has X11 session s…

It still feels like magic that a rebuild-switch and upgrade. using my preserved configuration.nix, gets my totally personalized KDE up and running in less than 5 minutes. All services, KDE apps, cli tools, the whole shebang. Amazing.
#nixos #kde

I do Mango & Niri on Slackware, Slackware JTown (KDE) on another NUC and will re-do dwm on Gentoo on the laptop by tomorrow.
So how about that BSD Challenge then?
Grabbed that Thinkpad, of course the latest GhostBSD wouldn't install. Bitten by a rare FreeBSD bug. But the previous version installed without a hitch and I'm doing a dist-upgrade now. Gotta say that this is by far the best and most accessible BSD install I've seen.

Not thrilled with what Fedora / KDE has turned home directories into. Copying my homedir from Bazzite (a Fedora) to Fedora 44, a whole bunch of stuff doesn't work because of bad paths, etc. Also nothing worked at all because I forgot to rsync the weird SELinux extra attribute stuff. None of this is the Unix I cut my teeth on 30 years ago!

@…
Please, do you still have a freebsd-kde-wayland page?
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1tgt2sg/comment/om…

Just out of curiosity, can anyone explain why does #Thunderbird avoid supporting the system tray? It's such a bad experience on KDE 😔 I had to install a fork (Betterbird) to have an email client always listening for new mail without having to trip over it when I alt-tab.

I got triggered (thnx @…) to revive my description on how to get a KDE Wayland session on FreeBSD up and running. You can find it here:
https://

Deleting 225 Noto fonts every time I install KDE is one of those sloppy, lazy things that pisses me off. Ain't gonna use Old Hungarian anyway. And why Okular needs 25 (I counted them) VLC plugins, is beyond me also. I thought this was a document reader?
#kde

I ran the desktop script that's to be integrated with FreeBSD Installer.
Unfortunately: kde is currently not packaged for FreeBSD:15:latest on ARM64, so a change to quarterly was required.
The script installed two packages from quarterly (alongside previously installed packages from latest):
― lang/lua54
― multimedia/wireplumber
The issue with SDDM persists.
I reverted to latest. pkg-upgrade(8) in progress …
Testing is painfully slow in emulation…

Is the color washed out in this pic? My first time trying HDR. This is on KDE AMDGPU Manjaro latest on Samsung G5 Odessey 27inch monitor.
@… was hoping you might know!
#askfedi #hdr

Order restored. Experimental KDE by @… Flatpaks as applications. Kernel 7.0. Slacker0ni repo for all goodies. Homebrew and/or distrobox possible also. As immutable as a mutable distro gets.
#slackware

… nothing remarkable from an ordinary upgrade after reverting to latest (screenshot attached).
I forced an upgrade of lua54 and wireplumber from latest, then:
reboot -r
No better.
I begin to wonder whether this is somehow related to missing packages other than kde …

After a month on my NixOS KDE it was time to change gears. Heading back to Arch and spins for KDE. Cachy is impressive, but brings a lot. Too much for me. Right now Garuda Linux, with the KDE minimal iso, looks to be the 'winner'. This is very close to pure Arch, and only adds useful tools like btrfs snapshots. That one for the next month.

You have that gnarly application that only comes in rpm, deb and AppImage. Then you suddenly remember Distrobox. And AlpineLinux is made for these setups. Tests finished, I'll finally be able to run KDE with all my required apps on Alpine! #alpinelinux #archlabs

The bad thing about these quickshells is that we now suddenly have to like all things QT? It still looks god-awful outside of KDE. Electron on steroids. Ah, yes, that KaOS thing installed, went past the bootloader and offered me a black void, where nothing happened. Well tested? Not! 🤪

@… failure to install KDE might happen at any time.
If a required package is unavailable, then pkg will be unable to fetch.
I can't recall what desktop-installer does in this situation, but it fails graceful.
The new desktop script will be integrated with FreeBSD installer, I should expect it to work with offline packages with the dvd1.…

Time to pretend to be productive again 🤣 On the laptop it's back to Obelix, my NixOS KDE config. On the desktop there's nothing happening; everything still boxed up after the move to Danang. Procrastination is a bad mofo, but also one of my best friends 😜

Hidden pleasures. Kubuntu 26.04 beta is available. And I like it. Why?
Do a minimal install, not normal or full. You get Plasma 6.6.4, Wayland only, Linux 7.0. Open Discover: snap is not enabled ootb and the checkbox to enable flatpak is available from the get-go. The overall system clocks in around 1.2Gb. Kudos to the team, in one go Kubuntu has been pushed to the front of the KDE queue. Clearly the Linux Mint or Zorin of KDE, and that is meant as a compliment.

The Garuda Mokka spin is a customized version of KDE, using the Catppuccin color palette. Beautiful and of course all goodies that can be expected, like Snapper btrfs snapshots etc. Noice.
#garudaLinux

@… seeing "FreeBSD Installer" in the screenshot might lead people to believe that the desktop script is integrated with snapshots of FreeBSD Installer. For stable/15: not so.
<

I do like new initiatives. PrismLinux is another nice Arch respin. Optimized kernel, own styling, nice. But 2Gb for a plain KDE session is too much.

To: The Uninitiated
Re: wallpapers
Rewarding yourself by downloading 10 new wallpapers from wallpaperflare.com is an appropriate way to spice up KDE on FreeBSD. Style as below.
EOM
#freebsd #bladerunner

I got diverted today, you could say. Wound up in the BSD world again, and it remains a great place to be. Will keep running my KDE at least until 6.7.
Nevertheless: diverted from Casuarina Linux, a must try. Couple that with a very interesting blogpost of some time ago and i'm really looking forward to it. More tomorrow, especially if The Powers That Be let me off the hook like today.
#casuarinalinux

@peterkotrcka@bsd.cafe Then we know if it's Falkon or KDE overall
Edit; try one with a regular window bar - right click - set up rule also

Interesting to see Bluefin with Gnome 50.1 is pretty close to KDE in RAM usage now. Which, on the 8Gb laptop, is much appreciated. Eats all I throw at it. Cool.
#bluefin

The unspeakable has happened. I've installed Aeon, the immutable Gnome by OpenSuse. Although KDE and WM's (dwm, mango) are at the core of my nerdiism, that ThinkPad deserved something else. Can't have an opinion without actually using it.
First impressions: clean, no fluff. Very good security (TPM encryption et al). And Suse was my first distro many years ago (the 2 books and 6 CD's boxes). Network shares very smooth, tomorrow some extensions. And forget about my usual …

With all the love that OpenBSD is getting now (and rightly so!), and my good ol' Slackware KDE back on the main NUC, I feel the time is right to finally spent serious time in FreeBSD. Let's install it on the hybrid graphics laptop and use it as my daily work driver for the next month at least? I'll report about the trials and tribulations over here.
River, Mango, Niri. Let's go!
#freebsd

@…
Bug hunting 101: for some obscure reason Spectacle wasn't working in Slim 6.7. (Re)install tesseract and leptonica (available in your repo anyway), all good!
It's always the user that effs something up 😆
#slackware

Remember I did that bootc KDE container, based on the Bluefin template? That method is really handing the power to the user. I've now tried Origami (Cosmic), today a brief stint with Zirconium (Niri and Dank) and I'm now heading into Zena. That last one looks to be very special, and is also a bootc container. More later.
#archlabs

@stu@chaos.social what do you mean? No login manager? What DE do you use? If you use KDE you can enable automatic login in SDDM.

I need to delve into rsync. Just noticed a well maintained repo of KDE pkgs, running on the oldest distro around. I know the maintainer, finally a chance to get back into the groove 😎

There's never that much going on in jtown. Just being the latest and most updated KDE out there.
#slackware

Pickle
#OpenZFS #ZFS #Kubuntu #KDE

There's always greener grass somewhere. When that KDE on proper Arch is humming away nicely, the thoughts wander back to the great Slackware KDE6 times with @… or even the proper Gentoo install (just plasma-desktop, not meta, is a viable option there also). And if it wasn't for that one gnarly AppImage I'd be running Alpine. Obviously.

In my tour of Arch KDE spins I've had a look at the latest EndeavourOS this morning. For now this strikes a perfect middleground: it is very close to core Arch, with some minor, non-obtrusive, tools added to it. Decent ricing ootb and also a nicely tweakable setup. No snapshots, no Nvidia tweaks ootb, but hovering around 1Gb in memory. Which is really sharp. On we go: CachyOS!
NB: what a geek does whilst waiting for his apartment in Danang 😎

Living nerd-life on the edge.
For the non-initiated it's hard to grasp, but in my throwback mood I have enabled the global ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" USE flag again. To install the latest KDE obviously. In the 5.28 days I used that setup of Gentoo for about 4 months before I broke it.
And it fills me with great joy to see that screen roll by again. Let's see how this ends 😎
#archlabs

All the others? It was all fluff.
Take the Arch iso. Install, no desktop. Don't follow recommendations. Install Plasma desktop and add KDE modules as you see fit. Use the new Plasma login manager, Wayland only. End up with a very lean, encrypted system, clocking in below 700 pkgs and at 987Mb. Now, that makes me happy 😊
#archlinux

That T2 should spend some time on documentation; the first dialog box asks for a superuser pwd and it isn't supplied anywhere. Quick install documentation is from 2017. And, btw, over the last couple of years I've regularly had issues with wifi connections at install in KDE (hello Kwallet). Am I the only one? Obviously!

For posterity. The distro I ran the longest was ArchLabs, for 18 months. Epic!
Next month it will finally be surpassed. Then i've been running Slackware KDE by @… for a grand total of 19 months. Thanks mate 🍻 !
#slackware

Reinstalled Slackware today on the NUC, after installing KDE on Alpine on the laptop. This time I used the 'generic' Slackware Current iso, not a liveslak. For me this will be the way forward, since it allows me to build the system exactly how I want it, from scratch. Prune anything I want. And then add the great Slackeroni repo from @… to get MangoWC and N…

One of the nice things with Garuda Mokka is you get some ricing, applications, tools etc. ootb. But all can be adjusted, turned off or even deinstalled quite easily. Everything has been added as separate packages, not meta packages. Which means I can deinstall KDE Connect separately, without any complaints about Plasma Meta being broken. That's great 👍🏻.
#GarudaLinux

Finally it's there! I'll be having a look at this later today.
#t2linux #kde