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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.

My FreeBSD KDE Wayland page (#freebsd

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

KDE ist voll geil

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

@… 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.

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…

Playing with WinApps on Fedora Podman.
What's WinApps? "Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration."
https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps

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

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…

#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?

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

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

LAMA – v Kde / in Where
#acoustic

@… 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

Wooohoooo finally!
#KDE

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

That's my type of KDE (Kiosco de Empanadas). 😄

@… @… @…
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A thousand years ago, I began to abandon the idea of becoming a lawyer because (without having a clue what I was doing) I installed the now defunct Mandrake Linux with KDE on my PC.
But the feeling of success (and feeling like a real hacker) came when I opened the Amarok player and was able to play 'Comfort Eagle' by CAKE. It worked on right away! Now I feel nostalgic every time I hear it.
Looking back, I think that was a key moment.

Did you know @… KWin has a plugin for gamepad support?
I just might install it locally for giggles 🤭
https://invent.kde.org/automotive/kwin-gamepad/

GeekTalk:
Spending your working day in FreeBSD KDE 6, whilst simultaneously installing the KDE minimal package set on AerynOS.
More detailed reporting in the coming days, but let me assure you FreeBSD also has the latest KDE Gear and Plasma 6.4.4.1., hot on the heels of the fastest KDE spin out there, Slackware. Impressive!
#FreeBSD

@… 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…

Governments freeloading on FOSS, not helping with funding (and at the same time collecting taxes on income/donations sourced otherwise) are just as exploitative as privately held companies, maybe even worse...
https://scalie.zone/@aks/115012388922867133

#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.

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.

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

@… yes, it's great. There also is KDE Connect, but I find LocalSend simpler to use.

A Simple and Scalable Kernel Density Approach for Reliable Uncertainty Quantification in Atomistic Machine Learning
Daniel Willimetz, Luk\'a\v{s} Grajciar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14613

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

Hoping some gnome-based #Emacs folks may have guesses: when it launches, I see the usual Emacs text menu at the top of each frame, but /somewhere/ in a long (and messy .emacs) something is 'different' from KDE and I get useless Win/Mac menu-ish things instead. Any guesses where this feature gets turned off?

Today, I finished setting up on my phone #KDE Connect and #audiobookshelf. Both are wonderful ❤️
I remember when back in 2016, after 7 or 8 years exclusively on #Linux, I…

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

They are obviously not far behind, but a bit more a WIP. KDE Plasma 6.4.4 on OpenBSD -current. Exciting to see!
#openbsd #bsd #kde

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 😄

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.

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.

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://

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!

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…

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 😆

GoldenDict's pop-up window doesn't work in KDE/Wayland when you are selecting a word in any app & pressing [Ctrl C, Ctrl C]?
Put "goldendict $(wl-paste)" in a proper .sh script. Add it in your Application Launcher. Set [Ctrl C, Ctrl C] (or whatever) in System Settings->Keyboard->Shortcuts

@… 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…

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

Parameter Estimation for GW200208\_22 with Targeted Eccentric Numerical-relativity Simulations
Patricia McMillin (RIT), Katelyn J. Wagner (RIT), Giuseppe Ficarra (UNICAL), Carlos O. Lousto (RIT), Richard O'Shaughnessy (RIT)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22862

We have to move on... FreeBSD KDE is great, my various Slackware's as well but that laptop still needs...
So I relanded on AerynOS. Yes, awaiting new iso's, but you can already easily install, upgrade to CDN and new package sets and off you go. Follow the blogposts (and most of it is already automated if you do so).
This is very, very promising. Mirror speed is significantly up, new package-sets (I tried KDE and Cosmic minimal for now) are great and everything works. Even …

#LibreOffice lagging during scroll in KDE/Wayland?
WAYLAND_DISPLAY=brol libreoffice
#Linux

Top comment in Reddit:
#KDE

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

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

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

#KDE #Plasma (ver. 6.4.3) hasn't crashed or hitched or misbehaved even once for the last few days, and has become so feature-rich and easy to use, it deserves a 10/10 thank-you-heart ❤️
(not to mention the mind-blowing software workings under the hood right down to kernel level…

KDE Plasma: ZFS mount points as devices in the sidebar of Dolphin on FreeBSD-RELEASE:
— is this a new thing, has anyone else seen it?
I'm accustomed to seeing rpool and bpool misrepresented as devices in Kubuntu (a known issue).
I don't recall seeing a comparable bug in FreeBSD before yesterday.
#FreeBSD

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

FreeBSD provides the standard KDE Plasma package, which is the preferred way as recommended by KDE themselves. Nevertheless, you can still uninstall i.e. Discover and Konqueror, which are part of that base package (like I do).
Don't be put off by the inclusion of kde-base-apps in your removal overview, only the relevant parts for that application will be removed. All other apps and libraries will stay put and continue to work.

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

So, if you want to start qBittorrent hidden in the system tray (v5.1.2, KDE), you must:
* check "Minimise qBittorrent to notification area" in Settings/Behaviour (which, oddly, doesn't hide it from the taskbar)
* open ~/config/qbittorrent/qBittorrent.conf and set StartUpWindowState to Minimized

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

I couldn't come up with a better way than this to minimize a Chrome app on autostart (KDE, Wayland, clean session)
(avoids setting a KDE window rule, which makes awkward opening the app in session)
google-chrome [arguments] & sleep 2; kdotool search --class [window class] windowminimize &

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…

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

There is a well known bug with Wayland & SDDM on FreeBSD KDE: Ctrl C by keypress abruptly throws you out of your Wayland session. Two things to add to that:
First: KDE and FreeBSD devs are actively looking for FreeBSD help in this, bcs the regular systemd type of logs are obviously not available here for bug tracing. If you can help, please do!
Second: Found a great solutions in the FreeBSD forums. It's a bit hidden in the threads so for clarity's sake:
I disab…

Service announcement (for myself and all ye geeks):
For all that newish Wayland KDE Hypr *SD Niri Atomic-or-composable dinit shizzle:
I love it all (you know I do), but nothing comes close atm to my Slackware dwm in productivity. And fun!
It-just-works.
Realitycheck ✅
#slackware

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 😜

First KDE 6.4.4 feedback on FreeBSD:
All running pretty smoothly afaic. Memory usage a bit high, but my guess that's bcs of the startup of a linux jail (I'm playing with installing Brave, which I did). Possibly I let go of that and stick to Librewolf, installed from the repos already.
Networkmgr by the Ghostbsd team is a nifty tool to handle your connections, works great in KDE also.
Automount by @…

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

I wrote up how I installed KDE Plasma 6.4.4, running Wayland, on FreeBSD:
https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/pages/src/branch/main/FreeBSD and Plasma 6 install

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…

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

Because you need to start somewhere, I'll be putting KDE 6.4.4 with FreeBSD on my laptop today. That latest Plasma arrived in Ports yesterday already. As I mentioned before FreeBSD can be very quick with cutting edge updates (basically anything Wayland as well, i.e. Niri et al). By using the latest KDE, which I'm very familiar with, it gives me all the time to learn about FreeBSD. Looking forward to it!

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 🤣

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…

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 …

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.

Interesting difference at first glance, when compared to Linux, is that FreeBSD feels more like a technical writing community, but still highly readable. So, when adding wifi to my FreeBSD KDE I was happy to have previously bookmarked https://www.dwarmstrong.org/freebsd-network-laptop/

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 🤣

That is a lot of fun! The update to 6.4.4 is rolling out as we speak, but just to give a first impression.
Plasma 6.4.3, Wayland session, basics installed and up and running. Even Spectacle (was a big issue previously) works well.
Wrapping up tomorrow, I've deserved that cool 🍻 for now.
#freebsd

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.

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!

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.

That plan to move all to Slackware, except for one or two test setups, is finally happening. Saves me a ton in updating as well, with specific updates landing on the NAS.
One KDE 6 laptop, one nwg-hyprland/niri/river nvme and one Mate desktop nvme (thanks OTB aka Steve Anelay for introducing me to Slackware and so much more!)On a roll, all on kernel 6.16 et all.
One N150 with Gentoo and dwm won't go anywhere, although I will put dwm on Slackware as well.
Leaves the ol…

Kalpa clocks in at around 930Mb for a Wayland KDE 6.3.4 session. That's neatly low. I think htop, fastfetch, git and mc should be included in the main image, as should Okular and Gwenview be (although they are available as a flatpak). The inclusion of Falkon ootb is amusing at best; I know no one who uses that browser. And Firefox is installed as a Flatpak, so why bother.
Anyway a solid, fully functional but minimal spin. As I like it 😎

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…

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 😆

That took exactly two weeks and a bit.
Your laptop shouldn't be just a workhorse, it is an expression of you, used for work as well.
Hence my install of Slackware KDE on it, it was by far the best I used for the past year or so.
With a ThinkPad X13 gen 1 liveslaks turned out to be a bit of a challenge, but conferring with @… in the background …