Tootfinder

@… try the quick start at <https://community.kde.org/FreeBSD/Setup#Quick_start>.
@…

After some great conversations yesterday I took myself up on my own challenge 🤣
After cosmix-saigon (using the unstable channel of NixOS, bcs of the most updated Cosmic DE) I just revitalized asterix-saigon.
Based on the nixbook project (thnks @… ) and NixOS Stable this gives you that rock solid stability and the latest and greatest KDE Pla…

So where’s actually the correct place to send a feature request to #KDE Plasma Addons?
Its GitLab readme says that I should “report bugs and feature requests in KDE's bugtracker under the plasmashell category”, but that requires me to choose a Component and there’s no “Plasma Addons” component or anything like that.
The bugs.kde page also says that I should, if I’m “not sure this is actually a bug, instead post about it at https://discuss.kde.org”.
So if each place tells me to post it somewhere different, where should I post it?

KDE-Desktop sagt X11-Modus adé und setzt vollständig auf Wayland
Anfang 2027 und damit etwas mehr als ein Jahr nach Gnome will auch KDE den Support für X11 entfernen und fortan vollends auf Wayland setzen.

@… thank you!
https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/freebsd-kde-wayland/pulls/1 includes suggested changes. (Avoidance of SDDM should be…

You'll find me back in the cave. Coming back home requires doing a large number of updates and all went well.
Of course Slackware and Gentoo were solid and quietly crunched away through all. I consider myself a Slacker, but that Gentoo KDE is also closing in on two months now and just keeps working. Tumbleweed is still impressive; I won't worry about the work laptop for now anymore.
Three projects lined up for now: FreeBSD KDE (updating and dailydriving) , Slacker0ni Mango…

Okular is a great PDF - and a lot of other format - document viewer.
It's quite happy to deal with a few thousand page PDF file; and I just learnt it can also do images, and mark down (and others).
https://okular.kde.org/

Over 1.2 million downloads. How someone can live in that color scheme is beyond me 😂
Nevertheless, upon request, Asterix-Saigon is here.
Taking the NixBook project by Mike Kelly as a base again, it is the KDE spin of the family.
You know what to do at: (https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/aste

KDE Plasma 6.5 kommt mit kurvigen Ecken
Die neue Version der Desktop-Umgebung KDE Plasma schleift die Fensterecken rund, verbessert die Zwischenablage und legt bei der Barrierefreiheit nach.
https://www.

Does someone have a working integration of #Nextcloud and #KDE on #nixos ?
I managed to add it as an Online Account but I don't have an option for calendars. Only for contacts and storage…

@… oh, hello 🙂
I don't know why I couldn't find you in Mastodon before today. In other news, I wasn't brave enough to venture into /r/linux territory. Instead … /r/kde – https://redd.it/1oqvxmw

I just made my annual donation to #KDE. Feels good :)

Hey look at that!
I got XMMS running on a modern Linux system :ignutius:
It doesn't play any music yet though... :stallman_thaenkin:
#xmms #kde #opensuse

Mitte Oktober endet der Support für Windows 10. Dass Microsoft seine Kundschaft dazu auffordert, Millionen von funktionierenden Computern wegzuwerfen, ist ein gigantisches Umweltverbrechen.
Wenn Microsoft kein Windows 11 auf deinem Windows-10-Laptop laufen lassen will, dann nutze die Gelegenheit doch, mal Linux auszuprobieren!
Ich freue mich schon auf die Linux-Install-Party m…

Barely three hours later, I found myself back on my #secureblue desktop.
⭐ #FedoraAtomic

Even Faster Kernel Matrix Linear Algebra via Density Estimation
Rikhav Shah, Sandeep Silwal, Haike Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02540 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Interesting insight via @… on the cultural shifts in these communities:
https://scalie.zone/@aks/115219522857171503

I might have spent a little too much time last night on making my #kde plasma config declarative with #nix plasma-manager - pretty happy with the emoji desktop icons and the cheat sheet tho
https://github.com/marcusramberg/nix-config/blob/main/home/plasma/default.nix

This new #OCR feature in #KDE is fantastic! 🎉 Sadly it's only for Spectacle for now but having OCR as a library is on the road map and I hope it gets added to Gwenview next. The built-in OCR in macOS Preview is so useful that I wondered why KDE still doesn't have it natively yet.

Whenever I have that urge to even consider buying additional hardware I look at my N150, with 16gb and a 256gb ssd, running Slackware Tilers and Gentoo KDE perfectly fine. Purchased new for $98. Can't be beaten.

I'm working on some low level graphics stuff right now and I'm very grateful to the AMD / KDE Developers who made GPU hang recovery work properly on Linux. 🙏
#Linux #DesktopLinux #AMD

Ha someone asked a question about the steam frame: what is the situation with desktop mode? Are we getting a KDE VR desktop experience? I know it's a lot of work but Wayland is kind of VR ready and the opportunities seems so cool....
#steamframe #KDE

Welp I posted on discuss, they can always just tell me to post elsewhere if needed
https://discuss.kde.org/t/plasma-addons-cube-clicking-on-desktop-with-the-middle-mouse-button-should-allow-to-rotate-the-cube/42215

I obviously had a great short break. Totally forgot my revitalized setup of the River wm on FreeBSD, finished the night before departure 😆 . Cleaned up applications for Wayland. My educated guess is that Tumbleweed will be moved off the laptop (I mean who needs AI?) in favor of FreeBSD KDE pretty soon...
Configs at: (https://

StealthAttack: Robust 3D Gaussian Splatting Poisoning via Density-Guided Illusions
Bo-Hsu Ke, You-Zhe Xie, Yu-Lun Liu, Wei-Chen Chiu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02314 https://

Top comment in Reddit:
#KDE

XFCE4 seems like a viable desktop environment if/when KDE ceases to be serviceable. I'll have to port my Beat-It! plugin, and may need to write or massage some existing ones (the task switcher/launcher situation is...sub-optimal), but there's still time.

#KDE folks, and #UX folks in particurlar, what am I to make of this Dolphin behaviour with #Nextcloud where some have ⮾ and some have ✅ but a hover makes them disappear? Where would I have been told what they do?

KDE ist voll geil

#TimjanGrumpsOnComputers
"Gathering crash information failed for unknown reasons"
#Linux #kde

＂… In an 8 GB VM, FreeBSD used a non-trivial 1.8 GB of RAM. …＂
For desktop use: a machine with 8 GB should be fine 👍
Screenshots here show a 1 GB machine running KDE Plasma with LibreOffice, vscode (Code - OSS), Firefox with YouTube and four other windows, htop in Konsole, and YouTube playing very smoothly in Konqueror.
After quitting everything except Konsole: less than 700 M real memory was used, some of which was ZFS ARC – a good thing.
This is not to recommend a …

I could not find that many solutions to my #GNOME issues listed at the bottom on https://karl-voit.at/Gnome-Setup/ and so I tested Debian 13 Live

Would really love it if this MR went through somehow https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/8236 - Not being able to paste directly from clipboard manager/emoji picker is one of my bigger annoyances with plasma

Touch-Tablet-Convertible. 4GB RAM mit KDE. Bildschirm ist um 180° gedreht. Touchscreen um 90°. Die Tastatur stellt sich als zweiter Touchscreen raus. Das Ding ist einfach nur cursed.
(Lenovo Tablet Yoga Book YB1-X91F)
#haxkoleaks

@… Jak naprawdę nie chcesz Arch linuxa, to Debian Unstable (aka Sid). Jest bardziej stabilny niż większość dystrybucji, a i będziesz miał jedne z nowszych pakietów (widzę kernel 6.16 i KDE 6.5 ma obecnie).

Did I just crash discuss.kde.org?

This, because my hand invariably keeps twitching and reaching out for the Save button at the bottom instead of at the top of the file picker of #Firefox ->
fixing firefox #gtk file picker to #kde

@… I tried KDE at one point after seeing all the comments about how wonderful it is, but I wasn't very happy with it. It's resource intensive, for one thing, and I didn't think it was a better interface than Mint, Mate, or XFCE.

KDE Plasma with Wayland on FreeBSD in Oracle VirtualBox
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1p8gytd/kde_plasma_with_wayland_on_freebsd_in_oracle/
I get SDDM, but not the Wayland option.

I have never used Krita before and I have no idea what I'm doing but here's a lil Konqi to celebrate I got my drawing tablet to work properly on Linux :neofox_floof_happy:
#DigitalArt #Art #Linux…

Either KDE fixes the problems with their Wayland session (faulty font rendering with fractional scaling, no ability to remap touchpad gestures that are literally baked in at compile time, and so on) or I'll be shopping for a new desktop environment once they drop X11 in 2027. I'll not be railroaded into accepting a dogshit user experience because somebody wants to dunk on the chuds. Plasma isn't that special!

@… Kurze Frage zu meinem Sirius 16 Gen2: Das Gerät hat ja ein 165 Hz Display. In KDE Plasma wird mir aber nur 60 Hz oder 240 Hz angeboten. Funktioniert auch, (240 Hz ist spürbar höher als 60 Hz) aber der Wert ist doch falsch, oder? Und müssten da nicht noch mehr Abstufungen verfügbar sein, z.B. 120 Hz? Kernel ist 6.14.0-113033-tuxedo

Improving Outdoor Multi-cell Fingerprinting-based Positioning via Mobile Data Augmentation
Tony Chahoud, Lorenzo Mario Amorosa, Riccardo Marini, Luca De Nardis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19405

My FreeBSD KDE Wayland page (#freebsd

So, jetzt hab ich die Eltern auch auf Linux umgestellt.
Der PC wird sowieso nur für Browser, Mail und Textverarbeitung genutzt.
Die Wahl fiel auf OpenSuse Tumbleweed mit KDE Plasma. Setup lief problemlos. Wiki und viele Hilfeseiten gibts auf Deutsch, so dass ich nicht jedes Mal ran muss, wenn es ein Problem gibt.
#Linux

Linux Just Changed FOREVER: KDE's New OS, Kernel DRAMA, and HUGE Updates!
#linux

On the KDE Plasma side it would be nice if the Wallpapers package was split up in two: the ones related to the version being installed and the old/additional ones, as an option. Plunking 200 Mb of wallpapers on my system at which I hardly ever look is a bit of a waste.
#KDE

Does the Steam Frame have KDE installed on it. If so, how is the experience?

@… A po prostu grsync i UI do crontaba?

W grsync gui tworzysz profil synca, w ui crontaba (np. w kde to jest "task scheduler") dajesz wywołanie `grsync -e "default"` - gdzie zamiast default ten profil co stworzyłeś.

No mamy tutaj "problem" gnu - każde narzędzie robi jedną rzecz bardzo dobrze :) Ale p…

Linux utility for binding keyboard/mouse/touchpad actions to system actions (which reportedly has the ability to override and disable the touchpad gestures that are literally compiled into KDE Plasma-Wayland for some unfathomable fucking reason)
https://github.com/taj-ny/InputActions

A new puzzle: normally in #XOrg I can blank the screen with "xset dpms force off" and with KDE/Plasma I could bind this to a hot key, but in Gnome #Ubuntu 25.10 using #XFCE4 it will work from inside a terminal, but as a hotkey it blanks, pauses, then refreshes the screens. Why would this be? Or perhaps, is there a prefered method to instantly blank all screens in XFCE-4? Not to lock, just to turn them off.

KDE Plasma and applications on FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT
― 15.0-ALPHA2 FreeBSD Installer, I chose packages (pkgbase)
― then a major upgrade using pkg
#FreeBSD #pkgbase #KDE

My install instructions for KDE 6 Wayland on FreeBSD have been updated.
First of all I changed the base to KDE and KDE base apps, instead of just a very minimal install. This follows the recommended install by KDE more closely.
Second: the browser of choice has been changed to Vivaldi and I have included a how-to-update the script and make Vivaldi run under FreeBSD.
Which you can apply anywhere on FreeBSD of course ;-)
Thanks to all for the positive feedback!

Billion dollar corporation and yet I cannot change the brightness of an HDR monitor. #windows is terrible.
I guess I can, I need to open the settings, open monitor settings, click the correct monitor with HDR enable, enter HDR settings, scroll to SDR brightness and then adjust the slider.
....
On KDE I can scroll the mouse wheel on the brightness icon in the plasma panel.

Linux Mint is often shilled as a lightweight distro that runs great on older hardware. Well, turns out the Cinnamon Desktop actually requires a certain amount of GPU performance to render smoothly.
On my old laptop Intel HD Graphics 4000, the entire Desktop only runs at ~30 FPS. The Xfce/MATE Editions run at 60 with occasional drops.
I didn't expect that from Cinnamon. Even KDE Plasma ran better.

No need to be left behind.
The adjusted how-to is up and running at https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/freebsd-kde-wayland.
So, go and get your latest KDE Plasma 6.5.2.Wayland on FreeBSD!

@… not too long a wait, I think.
From <https://gitlab.com/alfix/kde-installer-dialogs/-/issues/6#note_2891419265> a …

Now Codeberg is working so well with cosmix-saigon (results to be published today) it's time to try to migrate idefix-saigon (hyprland, sway and niri, with nwg-shell, on top of universal blue) also. With the git runners included it might be more challenging, let's see.
Asterix will certainly be set up again by me, an auto-updating atomic KDE on Nix can't be missing from the library!

@… an immutable distro might do the trick? KDE Bazzite? It is fedora based.

@… I do wish that KDE and other big names had done something much more like yours for End of 10 …
https://endof10.org/ and related pages lacked appeal, IMHO.

Yesterday I had to present some stuff to a pretty large group, around 40 people.
What better moment to install my KDE spin of the Nixbook project (codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/asterix-saigon) for a real life test?
I have only one issue with it.
It just keeps working 🤣
#nixos #kde

Just tested my FreeBSD KDE Wayland setup on 15-PRERELEASE and it works as well.
The part in my write up about switching to the Latest branch doesn't apply obviously. We're there already 🥳
#freebsd #kde

Disruptive.
Of course, on the first day of me traveling, Plasma 6.5 appears in the FreeBSD ports collection.
When 15beta 4 appears tomorrow or the day after I'll do a fresh install.
Gotta make sure that my howto of KDE Wayland on FreeBSD is still good 🥳
#freebsd

@… @… @…
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With @… you gotta daily-check those repo's. Updated KDE liveslak, updated window manager goodies, updated testing (minimal KDE, with homebrew, flatpak and distrobox): on a roll!
#slackware

Off to the races! Tested and all, another great slacker0ni production.
Thanks Jay!
cc @…
#slackware #kde

@… @…
FreeBSD, GhostBSD, NomadBSD, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, KDE Plasma

10:00 AM
The lessons for today:
- Compiling from FreeBSD ports for KDE 6.4.5 is too much
- Gentoo KDE testing doesn't update due to a spaghetti of dependencies
- Updated Tilers edition breaks the SDDM theme (and the margins in Hyprland are a mess)
- Xanmod kernel update on Trixie is held back
It's gonna be a long nuke-and-pave day.

I'd be great if KDE changes to a twice a year update schedule, more like Gnome.
My N150 is churning away for over 2 hours each and every time there's a version bump 😆

MocaccinoOS started off promising. Encryption, KDE all good. Until the first boot, where I've been looking at a nice flashing logo after grubbing into the system. Twice now, so I'll head out for a real coffee ☕

I don't know how many months it has been (3 or 4?), but Kalpa (the MicroOS KDE desktop) still doesn't boot into SDDM after install. Abandonware.

@… it seems likely that 15.0 will not include the installer enhancement for KDE Plasma and applications.
Instead, the packages can be installed in the traditional way, at the command prompt when exiting the installer.
#FreeBSD…

I'm not a proponent of software stores, but whilst updating FreeBSD KDE (in the cli) tonight a notification from Discover popped up about updates.
And, to my surprise, it showed all available updates: FreeBSD base, FreeBSD packages, like micro, obviously KDE applications, as well as an update for the theme I'm using.
Never seen that before on Linux, wonder if that's a FreeBSD specific thing 🤔
Either way it looks like the software store is finally reaching full pote…

Can tell me all you want, but Slackware is awesome. Had those iso to usb issues, remember? Only with Slackware, for now. Obviously there's a standardized script for that.
Iso2usb, couldn't be more simple.
Booted into the latest Slackeroni iso, with KDE 6.5 beta on it, all good.
Last year i travelled with hyprland, sway and cosmic on Slackware, this year I'll probably bring KDE 6.5 to the party.
After thickening the plot, the fog clears 🥳
cc

Testing Aurora, the KDE brother of Bluefin, briefly. Switched to the latest branch of course. Interesting and well executed. Too much for me, application wise, nevertheless very nicely done.
PS: Bazaar is a very nice appstore and the Curated section allows Aurora (and thus others) to show their preferred applications. Very neat.

Weariness with hyprland. I hardly ever use it these days.
Of course KDE in many shapes and sizes.
Riverwm on FreeBSD is doing great. And next project lined up: port my dwm to dwl and fresh it up. On FreeBSD at first.
They have really the best Wayland stack out there, especially with window managers.
#freebsd

Linux has become boring. Everything works. And there's too much KDE floating around. Time to switch gears.

Love it when a plan comes together.
KDE Plasma 6.5.2 Wayland on FreeBSD 15 beta 5. My how-to will be updated tomorrow (some minor tweaks), but this is running solid on that laptop.
Thanks to @… for useful additions!
#freebsd

I got a question at work here today about hardened Linuxes.
Remembered SecureBlue and decided to install the KDE iso.
And first impressions are really good. It includes a hardened browser and many, many tweaks.
Most of all: with flatpak, homebrew and very good documentation I haven't found things that I can't do yet. Impressive!
What I appreciate the most is that it makes you rethink about security and how to apply it in D2D.
Check it out at

Obviously there's still work to be done in the Wayland session of KDE Plasma 6 on FreeBSD.
Let's see what'd be the best way to 'report' those oddities.
For instance: the volume icon shows and tells a disconnect from the sound service. Nevertheless it's working fine.
Those little niggles 🥳
#freebsd

With all my KDE, dwm, MangoWC, NixOS, Gentoo, FreeBSD, Wayland, immutably complicated stuff it is very refreshing to just download an MX Linux iso, install it in under 10 minutes and have evrything you might want up and running in no time.
Well curated, well styled, great tools, you name it. Documentation excellent.
What a great distro! A gem.
#mxlinux

Geek-speak. We chit-chat a lot about KDE 6.5, but if you have Slackware Current , kernel 6.17.4, Ghostty terminal, Mango (previously MaoMao) windowmanager DankMaterialShell running quite easily (and Niri is there also), you know you're onto something 😜
cc @…
#slackware

So I talk about encryption on Slackware, bcs I bring my laptop next week when I'm travelling. It turns out to be a hassle, to say the least.
Then it sinks in I'm the one who practically put out the how-to for KDE 6 Wayland on FreeBSD. With encryption, all software, you name it.
Only goes to show reinventing that wheel isn't always necessary. Hardly ever 😆

Great to see Gentoo has moved Plasma 6.4.5 already to the stable repo. Prior Stable was always one major version behind (like on Debian, so 6.3.6) and the latest version was in Testing.
Tells you something about the stability of KDE now. Chapeau!
#kdeplasma6

For shits and giggles I decided to ssh upgrade my FreeBSD 15 to KDE 6.4.5, by using the latest ports. Let me say the process (git pulling the latest ports, portmastering et al) does certainly work. Five and a half hours later I'm happy to be not on the premises to hear my 2018 NUC take off. Rust, llvm, you get it.
Shits and giggles indeed 🤣
#freebsd

I'll soon be dancing with the devil again.
As for immutables, not a lot beats rolling your own.
Yes, yes, Obelix Saigon is in the setup phase. KDE, Github, cloud image, Fedora, UniversalBlue, bootc: let's rejoin the baddies!
Obelix is the voluminous one in the comics, so this image will include all the flatpaks I deem necessary. And hiding/removing as much fluff as I can 😆
That'll make the perfect, solid travelling companion. For now 😜

That updating went totally transparant and without a hitch, from beta5:
# freebsd-version -kru
15.0-RC2
15.0-RC1
15.0-RC2
Already going to RC2. And still running KDE Plasma 6.5.2 Wayland. Kudos!
#freebsd

Let it run overnight, but the end result is worth waiting for: a very clean, fully functional KDE 6 session on Slackware. Exactly the base you would get when installing Plasma on ArchLinux, and thus a perfect base to build on.
Later today: adding homebrew, distrobox and flatpak to get additional applications installed.
Thanks @… !

After the great feedback on my KDE Wayland setup on FreeBSD I'm now going through the paces for Hyprland on FreeBSD. Already have 95% done and dusted; expect to wrap up by tomorrow.
A satisfying setup, and I finally got rid of those crazy big gaps between everything. Took me four years to find the solution 🤣 You'll still be able to keep them of course 😜
#freebsd

FYI:
Dwm 6.6. KDE Plasma 6.4.5. Niri 25.08.
Who asked whether FreeBSD had up to date software?
🥳
#freebsd

I'm already looking forward to OpenBSD 7.8. KDE 6.4.5 has been announced in the preliminary release notes. Rafael Sadowski previously did a stellar job (with others of course) in porting 6 to OpenBSD, wonder how far they've gotten until now.
#openbsd

Testing 1-2-3. Testing 1-2-3.
You grab that iso. New release, KDE 6.4.5 on an immutable Gentoo. Interesting! No wifi enabled ootb? What? 2014? Yes, I know I can. I even know how. But I won't.
2nd one. Reinstall previously used. All well, until i add 3 regular applications. Desktop files (/usr/share/applications) are installed, but don't link to the correct applications at all.Yes, I know I can. I even know how. But I won't.
QA is a lost art and the rise of alph…

Fridays I work from home. Do I work? Of course, of course, but not really of course 😆
Looking forward to prepping the travel laptop; in two weeks I'll head back for a couple of days.
What's on it? FreeBSD and the River window manager.
And then the mystery of the liveslaks; dloading the latest KDE iso as we speak, so I can install it on the work laptop. If it works, that is.
That's all the real work I'll be doing 🤣