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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/

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/…

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.

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…

Hey @…, just thought I'd let you know that your donation box for the anniversary fund raiser at https://kde.org/anniversaries/30 seems to be blocked by uBlock Origin, which causes the bu…

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…

KDE Plasma 6.7 bringt Detailverbesserungen
Versionspflege: KDE hievt den Plasma-Desktop auf Stand 6.7. Jeder Bildschirm kann nun einen virtuellen Desktop bekommen.

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.

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…

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

@… "Can you switch to ttys other than ttyv8 with Ctrl Alt Fn while KDE or Cinammon is running?"
I get a black screen (in VirtualBox) for ttyv0, ttyv1, ttyv2, ttyv3, ttyv4, ttyv5, ttyv6, ttyv7 – all eight – in response to the key combinations. Confirmed using the soft keyboard.

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.

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 ?

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.

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 found an answer, suggested an improvement:
<https://discuss.kde.org/t/what-is-the-default-compose-key-in-kde-plasma/46471/8?u=grahamperrin>
@…

@… 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?

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

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!

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)

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

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!

FreeBSD: vt no longer visible when switching away from desktop environments at ttyv8
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1urf879/freebsdrelease_in_virtualbox_vt_no_longer_visible/
Bugged environments include KDE Pla…

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 …

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 🙂

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:

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

@… also:
https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/issues/28
― the linked 'KDE with Wayland' document puts KDE in …

Can't seem to get my SIM to work either, KDE says the APN password is wrong even tho it's what everyone says is the correct one online. On Android it works automatically, so I wonder if I can somehow see what infos Android is using so I can copy them over.

@…

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 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

@… the linked post in The FreeBSD Forums is about KDE as an option in FreeBSD Installer.
FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE did not include this breakthrough.

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

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

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

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)

Pickle
#OpenZFS #ZFS #Kubuntu #KDE

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!

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://

@… I love the title bars. I used to have that style with KDE Plasma.

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.

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

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 😆

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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 …

@…
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