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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.

#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?

@… 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

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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.

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

@… 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…

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

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.

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

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…

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

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

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

@… IIRC the installer for KDE Neon did not offer root-on-ZFS.
@…

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

#kde is doing this disruptive enshittification again. I just last all the connection from my browsers to my kwallet in the semi update from KF5 to KF6.

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

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…

@… 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.

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…

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 😆

IMO the Fall Apart desktop effect in #KDE (Apps & Windows -> Window Management -> Desktop Effects) should be enabled by default. Looks even more cool when an app, or a game, crashes. Save and Open dialog boxes? So satisfying - feels like you are getting work done at an explosive rate 😄

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

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

KDE ist voll geil

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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://

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

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…

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

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

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

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!

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!

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

Dlaczego ja to sobie robię... Wymyśliłem, że ten plasmoid (KDE applet) ze statystykami kampera będzie napisany w Rust. Z komunikacją po Dbus z refreshem na signal. Znalazłem nawet przykład bazowego appletu z bindingami generowanymi przez CXX (bo przecież niema natywnej biblioteki w Rust, tylko C ).

Tamten prototyp sprzed kilku dni na kargos i serwisie w golangu działał, więc musiałem poprawić, żeby było idealnie.

Applet dalej jest 2 częściowy - user serwis już bez systemd timera,…

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

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

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

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

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

@… 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…

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

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

Top comment in Reddit:
#KDE

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…

@… 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).

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 😜

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

Napisałem sobie widget do KDE, który pokazuje stan baterii w kemperze - narazie status naładowania i kierunek prądu (taak - power jest odwrócone w victronie znaczy, że rozładowuje a "-" ładuje).

Całość implementacji jest ciekawa, bo podłączyłem sobie Raspberrypi zero 2W obok. Zrobiłem tam bridge do MQTT od CerboGX i tunel przez wireguard do mojego VPC. Potem laptop też ma tunel i przez niego czyta sobie z tego RPI. Jeszcze kilka drobiazgów było potrzebne, jak wysyłanie do mqt…

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

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

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 @… !

@… 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

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

sysctl vm.pageout_oom_seq=120
― for FreeBSD on slow storage.
Pictured: a 2828-step forced reinstallation of 1534 packages – 568 FreeBSD-base, 966 FreeBSD-ports – with root-on-ZFS, 8 G swap, and less than 1 GB memory.
FreeBSD 15.0-PRERELEASE on AMD64 with KDE Plasma and applications, SDDM, and a few other things from the ports collection.
ZFS is not tuned in any way.
zfs --version
zfs-2.4.0-rc1-FreeBSD_g00dfa094a
zfs-kmod-2.4.0-zfs-2.4.0-rc1-FreeBSD_g…

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

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

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…

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 🤣

My FreeBSD KDE Wayland page (#freebsd

With the final patient undergoing surgery as we speak the big ssd carrousel has almost finished.
So I now have Gentoo KDE, AerynOS Gnome, Slackware Tiling Edition (hyprland, niri, dwm) and Slackware KDE all up and running on separate disks.
The new kid on the block is Debian Trixie, with the Awesome wm, in a spin by @…
Great stuff Dr…

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

@… 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.

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…

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

I feel it's coming to an end. Distrohopping, that is. Just noted I actually might have one NUC too much. KDE, nwg-hyprland, niri and dwm are all running on Slackware. And it all works great. Slackware covers all bases and more, and is rock solid. What more do i need? The laptop has been booked for the FreeBSD KDE experiment.That's it.Done.
#slackware

Although my first extra usb-wifi adapter has been returned (didn't work properly on FreeBSD) I'm waiting for the next one.
Will this enable FreeBSD wifi on my ThinkPad? Carefully chose one of the nano ones mentioned in the wiki.
Then the next choice: KDE or Hyprland?
I did see a video with a great rice for Hyprland yesterday on the 'Tubes, making it resemble my dwm setup closely. Very tempting!
But dog-fooding-wise I should of course run KDE and feedback …

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://

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.

Bcs you gotta keep up the skills I did a quickie on Gentoo with KDE today. Running testing bcs it's 6.4.4. Having done that we move on to other pastures tomorrow, it actually bores me 🤣

From the trenches:
-AerynOS is hampered for me by the clunky state of Cosmic;
- Lubuntu doesn't install snaps ootb ( at least with a minimal install), why can't all spins be like that. I know, but still this is a 'good' Ubuntu;
- Niri doesn't pick up the audio, whereas hyprland and sway do;
- In preparation for LFS I installed Trixie KDE. Yes, and I could all be done with the nonsense and be quietly happy with it 🤣 Solid.

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 ☕

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!

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.

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

Of course I couldn't wait, so I updated my KDE. And it broke as well. That's 3 out of 3 today. I won't be upgrading my dwm. And Calculate Cinnamon keeps humming along also. Mmmm.

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

Okay. Greetd is misbehaving. Ventoy disk is unrecognizable upon insertion. Niri from cli doesn't start. Should I even update my dwm and KDE? Tomorrow perhaps, they work right now 😆

Of course it was me. it's usually the end user (i.c. me, myself and I). if you mess with blacklists, and it works, it doesn't mean it'll keep on working 😜
So, laptop with niri and desktop with KDE are up and running again, desktop with hypr will follow tomorrow.
Shoutout to @… , who was on the immediate standby to help out. Thanx Jay, Slacking…