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

'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/

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).

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 😑 😭

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

The "Magic Lamp" minimise effect in KDE Plasma looks stupid, but it's actually kinda great for usability. I mean, it's *very* clear where the window went. I'm keeping it.
#Linux #Desktop #KDE

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 😆

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.

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…

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

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I talk allot about free software, and I use Secureblue, GrapheneOS and Debian as part of my software setup. I also spend a lot of time experimenting with Linux, especially Debian Testing/Sid, GNOME, and KDE.
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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/

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.

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

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

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…

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/

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

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

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 😜

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

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)

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

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

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

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 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

So, let's suppose you'd want to roll your own distro. It's special, right?
Well. if you include KDE Plasma you might as well shelve that project straight-away.
Nothing you'll do hasn't been done before (and very good) by a shitload of predecessors. Let alone, if you base it on Arch. In 2026? That's stale, man. Give up and move on.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

@… 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).

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!

I have this KDE Plasma window decoration theme I really like, but it changes the close/maximize/minimize buttons and I wanted those to be the same as Breeze’s. Is there any way to do that?

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

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…

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

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.

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

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

@… 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

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!

Did I just crash discuss.kde.org?

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.

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

@… 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…

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 @… !

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

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…

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!<…

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

Playing with that barebone QT6 KDE by @… .
Still alpha alpha, so don't do this if you don't want to.
But: everything working very nicely. Add Homebrew for all things cli. Flatpak for the rest.
And also nice to see that KDE is porting more and more applications to Flathub: Dolphin, Konsole, Gwenview and Okular work very well.
Cool stuff…

My 'complaining' about KDE has led to an extra effort by the FreeBSD community to pull me in 🤣 Ungoogled Chromium is back in ports with the latest version 👍🏻
#freebsd

Got home early today. Of course I had to geek out 🤣 KDE is under the bus, so I reached for VoidLinux (to add dwl to it later). And hey, other distro's: look at their documentation. Can be brief, but It Just Works. Diligently followed the disk encryption setup, very well written and laid out. A pleasure, I love runit.And VoidLinux, another great distribution.
#voidlinux

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

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

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

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

@… 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

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 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…

＂… 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 …

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…

So. That iso with Slackware, nwg-shell on Sway and Niri plus a shitload of goodies (thnx @… ) installed nicely. Cleaned it up a bit and added and compiled Mangowc (aka maomao) myself, to have a closer look at it. Added Homebrew, Flatpak is there by install.
Surprisingly enough this means also I'm out of KDE for the first time in about 5 years.
I had a …

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!

Okay, a brief recap of today's trials.
Alpine with Cosmic was no success, with an cosmic-OSD running at 100%.
AerynOS blew up the install at 97%.
FreeBSD River showed the audio output device in pavucontrol, but produced no sound.
The Slackware QT6 spin shat the bed again with SDDM.
Gentoo KDE update got interrupted by me; compiling kwin takes ages. And i mean 2 hours or so.
The Slackware Cosmic iso downloaded, but got corrupted in the process.
The exter…

The most up to date (according to Repology) Linux distro T2 Linux (https://t2linux.com/) will come out with a prosumer image before the end of this year. It will be KDE based and Rene Rebe and his team are doing a total cleanup of the code. Having done a 1000 hours already. It is so much fun to watch him. What a dedicati…

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

The hidden gem. Another one.
Did you know Alpine Linux has a vibrant community, delivering the latest desktop environments?
KDE Plasma 6.5.4, of course. But also Gnome 49.2.2? And, since y'day afternoon already, Cosmic 1.0?
That's the one I'm gonna go for.
Unexpected, but really amazing. Don't tell too many people 😂
#alpine

@… 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.

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

@… 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.

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

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 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://

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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