Tootfinder

Wooohoooo finally!
#KDE

Dynamic Similarity Graph Construction with Kernel Density Estimation
Steinar Laenen, Peter Macgregor, He Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01696 https://

KDE Plasma 6.4: Geschmeidiger, freundlicher und hilfreicher
Die Desktop-Umgebung KDE Plasma 6.4 kachelt die virtuellen Desktops flexibler mit Fenstern, vereinfacht die Bedienung und legt bei der HDR-Darstellung nach.

This is a great initiative. Please check the GitHub link on the attached post if you use Linux on Tablet PC.
From: @…
https://floss.social/@kde/114745104649286…

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,…

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

Plasma visually bugged following an upgrade on FreeBSD
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1lne10b/plasma_visually_bugged_following_an_upgrade_on/

Thank goodness the KDE team implemented rounded window corners instead of figuring out why KWin crashes on boot 1 out of every 20 times https://blogs.kde.org/2025/07/19/this-week-in-plasma-rounded-bottom-corners/

this is a cool page https://kde.org/for/w10-exiles/

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

Accidents will happen.
So I decided after the car crash to setup a, what I call, hybrid system: Slackware KDE, by @… , remove some things, install grub and decide to do all applications by flatpak. Except for those KDE apps obviously.
It's probably relief setting in, but it sure feels fresh and snappy again!

KDE Plasma ist für Industrie
...?
Na bei Plasma brennt ja auch Alles.

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

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

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 …

My complete setup is currently as follows:
Linux Mint and FreeBSD on all my computers and notebooks
Pixel 9 with Graphene OS (but will be replaced by a new Fairphone 6 with /e/OS from Murena in the future)
Connected via KDE Connect
Office with LibreOffice
My own Nextcloud for files, photos, calendar and contacts
Hardened Firefox with uBlock Origin
Freetube and Newpipe instead of YouTube
Ecosia search instead of Google
Proton Mail and Tutanota Ma…

#kde kmymoney also started to eat data. If Devs turn something from reliable and safe to unreliable and unsafe, the real question of liability comes into play. How can such a thing end in distribution?
Maybe we need to re-organize open source to have a reliable portfolio of applications, a kind of reliable #kde fr…

Identifying High-Risk Areas for Traffic Collisions in Montgomery, Maryland Using KDE and Spatial Autocorrelation Analysis
Stanislav Liashkov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21930

🖥️ #KDE Plasma default with 17 desktop environments available via elegant installer 🔄 Rolling release model based on #Arch #Linux with enhanced user-friendly tools

The future of debate: get an LLM to generate your tirade, copy it to the world dog, have it spotted by an LLM spotter and rejected on that basis.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2025/07/msg00031.html

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

#KDE 6.4 here I come. Particularly looking forward to the new HDR calibrator.

I see Apple got a new #KDE theme for macOS #WWDC25

No GNOME and no KDE so no Signal Desktop for me...
It would otherwise store its password in the plain, i.e., drop encryption entirely, unless you override it to use a password store. I'm on Sway. No idea what I could do.

Oh my goodness! You can enable login and logout sounds in KDE Plasma! 🎶
The Oxygen sound theme has such a nice jingle, too. It reminds me of the good old days. I'm keeping that.
You can enable it in Settings − Apps & Windows − Notifications − Login − Play a sound (See screenshot)
You can set a custom sound file, but a file from your current sound theme should already be default if there is one.

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…

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

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.

As expected, the #kde discussion forum is tone - policing my contribution. First there are violent changes introducing a dozen bugs. And then, they expect that you unpack the violin to report nicely the dozen bugs instead of just asking them to revert that shit they produced.
#kde currently turns into perma-alpha …

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?

Mag ik een koeling op mn foon vele Gbs verplaatsen is de HD van mn foon niet op berekend.. 🙈

Comparing the Architectures of Multiplanet Systems from Kepler, K2, and TESS Data
Robert Royer III, Jason H. Steffen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20654 https…

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…

Finally! I was able to install #nixOS back on my work computer. What a delight, everything just works and is declarative, customized to my preference. I really love #KDE #plasma6

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…

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

@… thanks, I added to upstream <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505552>; and drew attention to the downstream report.

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

Somehow I thought #KDE 6.4 would introduce rounded bottom window corners. Must've been a dream or wishful thinking, can't find anything that isn't a third party plugin. :neocat_woozy:

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/

I don't care about the Apple redesign, I love KDE and will keep using that.

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

The more it is evolving, the less stable it becomes. I'm using #KDE since version 1.1. And with KF6 it is for the first time that I experience the repeated total freeze of the entire desktop, because it can't handle a dock and more than one monitor. Wayland is definitely the systemd moment for desktop-linux. X-Windows was mutilated before Wayland actually worked (let alone missing network capabilit…

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

@… Na jakimś lekkim desktopie będzie ok, przy małym swapie do "testowania". Gnome czy KDE zajmą ponad pół z tego, to już nie wiele zostanie na resztę.

Osobiście jak sobie robię wirtualki do testowania dystrybucji (nigdy nie wiadomo czy coś ciekawszego nie powstało) to wrzucam 20gb na OS 2gb na swap i reszta na home wg. potrzeby …

🤔 Interestingly enough I've talked a lot about Niri today, even adjusted the config, but ended up spending time in Project Banana, the immutable KDE Linux (by KDE, based on Arch). And Calculate Linux, a Russian Gentoo spin.
Such is the life of the restless.

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 …

@… @… Very very cool! 🌟
Do you happen to release / sell your animations for people to remix (like in the Pling KDE store), or do tutorials?
I'm glad there's now documentation for Friction, but I had trouble…

wow, #kde kmymoney, the changes in the interface also resulted in the inability to move transactions from one ledger to another. Gosh, how can a working piece of software be so messed up in one new release?

#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…

If you're on KDE and Wayland, I'm very sorry to hear that, but if in that case you'd still like to have some XScreenSavers you can try this on:
https://github.com/theodric/input_xss
I don't think I'm catching DBus events in the canonical manner, but it's working well en…

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

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.

@… they're breeze icons (KDE style), looks like it could be a QT app. You could play with QT theming or look for an alternative GTK app.

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 😆

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

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…

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 😎

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.

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

Sunday is for long morning walks. Back before 9:30 AM (it gets too hot afterwards) and a beautifully quiet Saigon. But first downloading the slacker0ni KDE iso.
I mean, we all have priorities, right?
#slackware #slackeroni

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 &

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 …

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…

A number of distros are a bit behind, but FreeBSD also has Plasma 6.4.2 in the repos. Hope they get the Wayland session fixed for it, it goes to show they are very much on the front foot here. If so KDE would easily become the nr. 1 desktop in BSD land.
#freebsd #kde

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 @…

You have to finish on a high.
After one year of Slackware KDE it is time to refresh the muscle memory.
My main distro for the coming year will be Slackware Hyprland (and Niri), with the great nwg-shell on top. A combo I'm very familiar with and which is another excellent Slackeroni production!
KDE will be out of the picture as a daily driver for the first time in 5 years, with Slackware hyprland, VoidLinux and riverwm and Gentoo with dwm all nerd needs are covered.

…

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!

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

The crazy nutter:
- Updated Slackware KDE to 6.4
- Discuss make.conf and cpu flags for gentoo dwm
- Spend the afternoon in FreeBSD 14.3, with the river wm et al. Wifi is working, sound is good, usb mounting also but bt not and smb is challenging
- Brought back waybar to a normal statusbar, excluding all cruft
- Keybinds and rules are up and running mostly.
And then you find out riverwm probably doesn't support switchtotag (open terminal, it opens on tag 2 a…

The rabbit hole, the rabbit hole.
KDE user finds out he can make his own color schemes.
See y'all next week 😂

KTorrent is a decent client and it follows all KDE conventions. Unfortunately there's no different color for finished downloads, just a barely visible thin line below.
Not automatically downloading to the Downloads folder doesn't help either.
Back to Qbittorrent then; I need a quick overview of the status without having to read percentages.

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

Used a Steamdeck, without having a Steamdeck 😜
Spend some time today updating and running BlendOS, an immutable Arch distro.
You start out with Gnome, but of course I made my own system.yaml file, running KDE 6.4.3 into which you swap by rebooting.
Very nice, rock solid (just like the Steamdeck) and Arch btw 😎
#blendos

It is after all Friday the 13th. Nevertheless, surgery left the old NUC battered and bruised, but working fine again, with VoidLinux.
The cheapo-beapo n150 started up without a hitch, with Slackware Current Mate. Gentoo dwm and Slackeroni KDE still solid as a rock.
My pants are on properly in one go.
I promise I won't tamper with any of them today, after 4 days of messing about.
It is after all Friday the 13th.

The Gang of Four has been restored. And all four have been hybridized. This is distro de/wm cli utils by the distro itself (the base) and flatpaks for all applications.
Slackware hyprland with nwg shell, VoidLinux with riverwm, Gentoo with mate/dwm and KaOS with KDE 6.4.2.
All bases covered 🍻😎

The more I see the moves that are being taken the better I feel about leaving systemd behind.
But (growling from his cave): I told you so.
I am already pre-warning here: I'm getting fed up with QT and the 300 million options in KDE as well.
End of the service message.

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/

I have to say that, though I welcome it generally, the avalanche of updates in KDE is becoming too much. Haven't got the time to check out new features or a new version rolls out. CI/CD is possibly not for me anymore.

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

To paraphrase Barry Scwartz: The Paradox of Choice – Why More Is Less
With the continuous glitz of KDE, Hyprland, dwm, Slackware and Gentoo as daily drivers it's the time of year to start winding down.
Also because I've been revisiting Steve Anelay's videos (OldTechBloke, sorely missed) I'll spend a month on the Mate desktop, starting this Saturday.
But what to run it on? Help me make a choice, appreciated 😎