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#okular #kde

Plasma 6.6 bringt einfachere Bedienung und nützliche Funktionen
Die KDE-Entwickler haben Plasma 6.6 veröffentlicht. Es soll einfachere Bedienung bieten, ohne an Flexibilität einzubüßen.
https://www.

@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

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 …

Český zaměstnanec drží hubu a krok a zůstává v práci, kde to pro něj nemá smysl - Měšec.cz
Češi se bojí měnit práci, i když jsou na své pozici hodně nespokojení a bez adekvátního ohodnocení. Proč tomu tak je? O trhu práce jsme si povídali…

«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…

PWAs ohne Browser – eine Fingerübung im Vibe-Coding
Vibe-Coding ist eines der derzeitigen Schlagworte auch im Bereich Open Source. KDE-Entwickler Ken Vermette hat bei seinen ersten Versuchen an einem Wochenende…

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/115672001267960810
@… I sometimes dispute the assumption that KDE …

hmmmm okay I tried to install KDE on ubuntu.... but I did it on X11 instead of wayland?? when I switch to wayland on the login screen and login it's not KDE though.. and trying to reinstall it doesn't do much.
also KDE is super laggy and runs badly.
#ubuntu

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.

Been trying to reduce my VS Code dependency lately and switched to #KDE Kate, which actually has gone pretty well. The hardest things to adjust to are the little UI/UX differences that I've gotten used to for ~12 years or whatever.

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

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

Linux-Distribution KaOS: Weg von KDE Plasma
Die Linux-Distribution KaOS hat bislang stets auf aktuelles KDE Plasma für den Desktop gesetzt. Das ändert sich nun.
https://www.heise.de/news/Linux-Distr…

'Smart Video Wallpaper Reborn' is essentially 'Wallpaper Engine' but for #KDE.
Managed to grab MP4's from the Wallpaper Engine files and put them in.
The background blurs whenever there is a window open and pauses when full-screen.
Added some wobbly windows and a glitch effect for opening/closing.

@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

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

I fucking hate KDE on Wayland. Entire evening wasted thanks to their goddamn fucking unnecessary hardcoded gestures. I am to the point of rebuilding kwin_wayland with the patch from the Arch AUR `kwin-without-gestures` package.
This was supposed to be getting fixed!
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/1…

Liebe @… , was ist denn mit #KPublicAlerts? Die API ist stabil und rennt wie eine eins, bloss der Client fehlt noch. #kde

Interestingly, CachyOS was restrcting by default the power draw of my GPU. Once I enabled the maximum allowed wattage and set the KDE power preferences to Performance, this game matched its FPS/Upscaler results in Windows and Linux 🕺 👾 🎮 (It's a 3 min video of me, running like a madman on an alien planet.)
The Alters - Windows vs. Linux - FSR 4.0.2 INT8 vs. FSR 4.0.0 FP8 (EMU)

I just donated to the GNOME foundation as a thanks for giving me a nice desktop. I usually give once a year to show appreciation for their work and to contribute to the continuing work on the DE. I think KDE did the right thing asking for donations, so if you are on GNOME and have the means - make a donation
https://donate.gnome.org/

So, The Core (in no particular order):
1. Slackware with nwg-shell Sway, Niri and Mango
2. Gentoo dwm
3. Aurorix, my KDE container spin.
4. FreeBSD 15 with Mango
5. Slackware Flatbrew, a KDE QT6 experimental iso, with Brew and Flatpaks (thnx @… 😉)
All working superbly.
Contemplating a bootc Cosmic spin 😜

Things I somewhat dislike about #Fedora Linux:
Its inconsistent approach to shipping new major versions upstream released as regular updates.
New major versions of kernel, firefox, thunderbird, and kde are regularly shipped as regular updates, mesa often as well (except when it's not 🙄) – gnome, libreoffice and a few other things otoh are never updated.
This "neithe…

'k3b' is a CD/DVD burner with audio ripper - now, I'd have to say I've not actually burnt a disc in many years, but I do still use the CD audio ripping. It's got some nice settings for retrying slightly tired discs.
https://apps.kde.org/en-gb/k3b/

K3b
Disc Burning

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

I delayed the update by a couple of months, but my main #Linux machine is now running #Kubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) with Plasma 6.4.
#KDE

@… have you seen this PR for KDE's Kwin that turns it into a 3D VR Desktop. https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/8671

Maybe it is time for me to go back to debian stable or some such. #Opensuse is pushing half baked solutions, which makes me sad after all those years of reliable services. On top, I don't understand this obsession for Wayland (which isn't up to speed on Desktop).

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…

Flatpak keeps complaining about dependencies, so software vendors adjust their bundling strategies...
https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/12893
I am not sure I got the selling point of Flatpak at this point. Wasn't the point to get rid of the dependency…

[Flatpak] Runtime org.kde.Platform branch 6.8 is end-of-life · Issue #12893 · obsproject/obs-studio
Operating System Info Other Other OS Flatpak OBS Studio Version 32.0.2 OBS Studio Version (Other) No response OBS Studio Log URL N/A OBS Studio Crash Log URL No response Expected Behavior N/A Curre...

I am not going to sit here and lie to you that I wrote this bash script all by myself. Yeah, I had it already (mostly), but got bored of reading man pages and borrowing from other people's scripts on the Internet and instead had THE best chat with Gemini ever, in which we both learned from our mistakes 😁
PS The sick CachyOS logo was entirely Gemini's idea. Good job AI buddy 😎

OKAY. back to windows it is. Installing KDE on ubuntu and it being super laggy and then trying to uninstall it has my my Ubuntu no longer loading a UI at all. it's just a console input.
I tried. now I probably just need to reinstall Ubuntu to get back to a baseline.
#ubuntu

Spend my day in Slackware Flatbrew, a one-off from my mate in Motown. Synced KDE dots, brew installs and installed flatpaks between Aurorix and Slackware, to achieve that at-home feeling, anywhere i go. It worked out great. Tomorrow it'll be Larry and dwm. Can't go wrong with that one either.
#slackware

Great talk by @… of #GNU #Hurd fame, in a packed room, selling the the Hurd really well (in my not entirely unbiased opinion, of course) and starting with
It'…

From the bluffs of Sunset Bay to some of the best curry in Coos Bay, we’re soaking up the Oregon Coast. 🌊 Plus, a fresh switch to Ultramarine KDE Plasma on the MacBook Pro! 💻
Watch here: https://youtu.be/ujx848M9hYw?si=eGkWEF1AmTUKU9uH

… 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 …

So, here's the thing. I was fooled in the last couple of weeks.
Gentoo KDE was (and is) an absolute pleasure to use. I love my Larry. But that was also because there were no KDE updates 😜
Especially when I've got these other KDE's just rolling by and I have a memory of an impeccable JTown.
I'll pick up my dwm and slap it on Gentoo, that's the way to go. 90 minutes compiling of kwin-x11 is too much. Let alone with monthly updates.

Moje diplomka byla o sklšdšní panoramat a dneska je to tak jednoduché!

FreeBSD 15.1 overview – with KDE Plasma and applications, Ly, and SDDM
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1rje9xu/freebsd_151_overview_with_kde_plasma_and/
@…

So awesome. #dms launcher now supports git search plugin in latest dev builds. Also there's a kde connect plugin. #niri/#dms combo does it all for me now. <3

@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.

Man, I have run out of fucks to throw at this project for the moment. So be it. Clearly I'm in the extreme minority in being interested in correcting this issue, so I won't feel too pressed in making a generic solution to my specific problems.
I'm guessing that the subset of people who care within the subset of people with the talent to solve the problem within the subset of people who use KDE is fairly small. Seems like all the cool kids are running tiling window managers …

'Smart Video Wallpaper Reborn' is essentially 'Wallpaper Engine' but for #KDE.
Managed to grab MP4's from the Wallpaper Engine files and put them in.
The background blurs whenever there is a window open and pauses when full-screen.
Added some wobbly windows and a glitch effect for opening/closing.

Did a reverse install of Gentoo today. Installed dwm alongside KDE, made sure all was running well. Then deinstalled all KDE parts, did a deep clean and switched profile to just desktop (from desktop-plasma). Smooth, and keeping all settings, applications and tweaks as they were. Easily beats a 4 hour reinstall 😅
#gentoo

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

I put the 2015 MacBook pro back on Ultramarine but this time with KDE Plasma. I'm much happier now. Back to rendering videos. 🐧 #linux

@… 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…

A video on this would be super cool @…!
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/19/pearos/

Very low-key "BTW". But it's an all-Linux build and I am happy 🙂 Clair Obscur runs like cr@p on this GPU, in case you didn't know 😑 😭

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.

Hi #Linux, what do you use?
#KDE #GNOME #Xfce4

Perhaps I'm not really using the right words.
I think I don't care about backups as much as I want seemless cloud file sync.
dropbox has not been seemless. Google drive does not seem to be working on KDE.
#ubuntu

Call for testing KDE installer dialogs
<https://gitlab.com/alfix/kde-installer-dialogs/-/blob/main/cft.md> | <

I got energized by a blog post by Jorge Castro, the tireless promotor of Bluefin and all things OCI.
That's how I got busy the last couple of days in setting up Aurorix, my own take on Aurora (the KDE sister of Bluefin).
It's been an incredible lot of fun, and the result is something that works very well for me. Expect more details later on in this journey.
Now, don't worry, Slackware with Mango is superb and Gentoo (after losing it's KDE flavor for me) will be…

Welcome to Aurorix Saigon, my opinionated take on Aurora KDE, showing a menu and a terminal window with installed cli tools. These CLI tools were installed using a predefined list in Homebrew , as was the Ungoogled Chromium flatpak. An automatically created custom image.This is very cool; further tweaking to follow.
#auroralinux

@… the choice is not at all weird, it's explained in the information that the FreeBSD Foundation has made available.
#FreeBSD #KDE

So, I'm getting down to the core:
1. Slackware with nwg-shell Sway and Mango
2. Gentoo dwm
3. Aurorix, my KDE container spin.
All working superbly.
One SSD left. FreeBSD? I think so.

After patching and rebuilding kwin_wayland to remove the bullshit-ass fucking hardcoded gestures that have been in there since at least 2021 with an open bug, funding spent, and no resolution in sight, and thereafter installing both fusuma and fusuma-plugin-sendkey, I have sucessfully gotten KDE on Wayland to behave normally qua gestures. I think.
XScreenSaver 6.11 has preliminary (non-locking) Wayland support, which may obviate my dirty hack to watch input devices DBus and run demo…

For KDE I've recently settled on Alpine Linux. I've been around the block on Plasma and I can assure you it is one of the best out there. Couple that with blazingly fast mirrors, LUKS encryption, flatpaks and setup scripts and you have a winner. Not for beginners, but absolutely worth a go. Recommended!
#alpinelinux

@… re: <https://gitlab.com/alfix/kde-installer-dialogs/-/issues/21#note_3120746001>
Is this your …

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

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

@… 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.…

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 😎

Omg, patently wrong. To begin with, I am the one using the GTX 1650, and my video shows that it's working great even with DLSS, as opposed to the viewer with the AMD problem. And that parrotting nincompoop of an AI wants me to - what? - save time, give technical advice, make some small talk? What a big, smoking hot, pointless pile of b this technology turns out to be.
And I guess Google lets the same fucking stupid LM to determine how to recommend my video to other viewers? Great!<…

If you had to choose between these desktop environments on #Linux, which one would you use?
#KDE #Plasma #GNOME

I have implemented a KDE-Wayland analogue of XKill called...wait for it...wkill. Usage is like you'd expect: you run it, you get a crosshair, you click on the window you want to kill, and it is killed.
Technical implementation is, in essence:
On click, send `zwlr_foreign_toplevel_handle_v1.close()` to the compositor (politely requesting the application to an hero).
Then, resolve the PID from `/proc` by matching `app_id`,, then send **SIGTERM** (or **SIGKILL** if launched…

Void, with encrypted zfs, on the laptop. Dwm or River. Tbc. But Gentoo dwm is calling. Possibly before Tet.
NixOS with KDE on the N150. Solid.
Finally revived the old NUC with Slackware Tilers: Sway and Mango. And Dank. Great stuff.
The Thinkpad that wasn't sold: this will be either TileOS or Hatchery, a project by Troutcobbler, an old ArchLabs mate. Both Debian, tiling wm's. Cool. Check them out.
The last one will be after Tet, I'm off for a couple of days fo…

There was this mention in the Budgie 10.10 release announcement of ending an era and working together in a very positive way with the KDE team.
What most people, including yours truly, missed was the mention of QT6 as the new development platform of choice for Budgie 11! Part of Frameworks is already in 10.10, and a totally new architecture will be build for Wayland, QT and Budgie. Exciting times!

@… FYI
rxappdev/RememberWindowPositions: Remember window positions for apps in KDE Plasma 6 . Especially useful for multi-window applications such as browsers. — <https://

Why does my ThinkPad's LCD gain contrast when plugged into power and desaturate when unplugged. KDE-Wayland 6.6.0.

@… 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.
<

@… season's greetings from Plasma on FreeBSD-CURRENT with pkgbase 🎄
#KDE #Plasma #FreeBSD

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.

When you turn to dwm (as opposed to KDE, for a shorter compile) and forget Ghostty requires Zig 😜🤪
#gentoo

@… KDE did not make a silly design choice.
Cc @… @…

Yep, like this I'm getting nowhere. Another splendid rabbithole. I need to focus!
Did you know PostmarketOS has a desktop image as well? Not just for a phone, but a full-fledged DE? Neither did I. It's based on Alpine, and one image lets you choose between the likes of Gnome, KDE, Xfce, Cosmic. And that KDE is very sleek and up to date!
Gonna give that a longer go. Thanks @…

RE: https://floss.social/@kde/115945592588152667
@… @…

With Aurorix up and running (OCI container with KDE) it's time to start Asterix up also. That's my 'immutable', auto-updating Nix. Although less 'confined' than Aurorix it should be basically the same for the enduser. Looking forward to the comparison.
#auroralinux #nixos

@… I'm reassured by the top-ranking related comment in YouTube.
Yes, it's anime.
#FreeBSD #KDE

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 😎

I've spend and enjoyed an incredible rabbithole. ZFSBootmenu, with encrypted ZFS, running either ChimeraLinux KDE or AlpineLinux KDE.
I've gone completely bonkers: Chimera (thanks to the great guide by @… !) in the end worked, but was eating up around 2 Gb of RAM 😭 . Alpine was a long and very winding road, to say the least. In the end (we are …

I'm updating that Asterix-Saigon config (my Nixbook respin for KDE) bcs I just noticed the fresh-editor is of course available in nixpkgs. The breadth of my madness is astounding.
#nixos #kde #nixbook

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

BananaFin, my mix of project Banana (immutable KDE/Aurora) and BlueFin, is reaching finalization.Tomorrow some more testing (have brew and flatpak install my own applications upon first boot), but it is all running very smoothly. Aside from this being my hobby as well, you'd just install this and get on with it. And yes, it's a bootc container, from the cloud, secure boot enabled and it runs flatpaks and systemd. And very well, thank you!

@… I carelessly think of MATE as maintained, in the sense that it looks better than GNOME 🙂
I am horribly prejudiced. I cringe at the possibility of people wrongly assuming that I use GNOME when the truth is, Ubuntu was nothing more than my passport to KDE Plasma – Kubuntu.

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

@… there's no need for a redirect.
It's not in the Wayback Machine.
vermaden is imagining things.
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://

The serenity that sets in when you have Slackware Tilers (with Mangowc and Sway), Gentoo with KDE and VoidLinux with dwm configured. And all running equally good and reliable
That's the triumvirate for 2026.
Then we have Slackware Cosmic to test drive for at least a month.
And that Thinkpad for all intermediate urges, like AerynOS, Chimera or Bluefin.
Done and dusted.

Damn, how could I forget FreeBSD. This year needs a deeper dive into BSD. Probably xfce. Xfce on MX was great. No KDE or wm, I have enough of those.

I wonder why fonts are wrong in Konsole in LXQt Desktop.
(Not wrong in Openbox or KDE Plasma.)
#FreeBSD #LXQt
<https://

It's too much. I installed TileOS, Debian based, Riverwm. Aeryn with Cosmic is running. My labwc with Noctalia should be on FreeBSD. Discovered PostmarketOS has a desktop iso. Fluxbox on MX still pulls me in. Chimera on ZFS deserves a second, thorough, test. Man, so many wildy cool things happening. And Alpine KDE needs some wrapping up. Slackware and Gentoo stay the solid foundation.

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

Btw, afaiac I'd love to swap KDE out for Cosmic. But the window rules (or current absence of it) is preventing me from doing it. Like a Kwin for Cosmic, that would be cool. But what the Cosmic team has achieved so far is really impressive. I wouldn't be surprised if this becomes the default DE for Ubuntu.
#cosmic

Without naming names: I don't like RSA key issues with mirrors, so two consecutive kernel updates aren't working out properly. Changing mirrors doesn't help either. It was what drove me away 3 years ago; the update to KDE 6 took 3 or 4 days, breaking the whole shebang. Coloring outside the lines sometimes invokes a black and white response by me.

It was nice to learn about containers and bootc. But after reinstalling Cosmix yesterday (my NixOS spin) I've decided to stick to that. KDE on the laptop will be served on Alpine, FreeBSD or Void for the next month (at least). GitHub repo's will go today, I'm perfectly happy at Codeberg.