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KDE is in Dornbirn today! Meet up with us at our booth at the 2024 edition of Linux Day - Austria 🇦🇹!

https://www.linuxday.at/

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If you have some rust projects, don't forget to run this:

balooctl6 config add excludeFilters target

to exclude the rust target directories from the file index.

each one contains thouthands of files and even having a couple of projects explodes file index size into hundreds of megabytes and makes the indexer get stuck, sometimes for hours, without doing this.

you may have to purge the index and re-index everything for the changes to take into effect sometimes:

 balooctl6 purge
 balooctl6 resume

(also i believe this should be the default)

This week in Plasma: converging 6.2

https://pointieststick.com/2024/09/27/this-week-in-plasma-converging-6-2/

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Opinions? [except my terrible handwriting, these are extremely early sketches, as in EARLY early]

used https://community.kde.org/Konqi as a reference.

Hi,

Crystal Dock v2.5 is out now!

What it is: Crystal Dock is a cool dock (desktop panel) for Linux desktop, with the focus on attractive user interface, being simple and easy to use, and cross-desktop support.

The current version (version 2.x) supports KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland. Other desktop environments will be considered when they run on Wayland and provide sufficient APIs.

Change log:

New features:

• Added a new Flat 2D style: The user can easily switches between the existing Glass 3D style and the new Flat 2D style from the Panel Settings context menu
• Task indicator: now shows the number of windows for each application as 1, 2, 3 or 4+

Other changes:

• Added more error messages when an application cannot be pinned

GitHub page: https://github.com/dangvd/crystal-dock

GitHub release link: https://github.com/dangvd/crystal-dock/releases/tag/v2.5

KDE Store link: https://store.kde.org/p/2105085

Have a nice weekend!

Krita 5.2.5 is here, bringing over 50 bugfixes since 5.2.3 (5.2.4 was a Windows-specific hotfix). Major fixes have been done to audio playback, transform mask calculation and more!

We have archived the Dot -- because we have something better now

The Dot has served the KDE Community well as a the source of news for all our projects and contributors.

But, as KDE has grown, the amount of news has grown with us, to the point it has become impractical to filter it all through one source.

Check out our solution:

https://dot.kde.org/2024/09/25/dot-closed-long-live-kde-planet

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Curious to know what is happening with current KDE Goals? From workboards to chatrooms, get all the updates and join the discussion! Explore how we're shaping the future at https://kde.org/goals/

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I have two monitors, one 1440x3440 and one 1080x1920 to its right. Every boot, the desktop on my left monitor moves over and displays on top of the right one. Killing and restarting plasmashell moves it to where it should be, but i'd love to fix this without adding that to my .xsession. Thing is, i'm not versed enough in the KDE internals to know where this issue even stems from.

I'm running EndeavourOS with Plasma 6.1.5 on X11. I haven't tried wayland since Plasma 6 switched to it and then promptly flickered itself into a crash.

Edit: This machine runs the amdgpu-pro driver, and has done since before plasma 6 released. i didn't have this problem on plasma 5.

Plasma 6.2 will be out on the 8th of October, but meanwhile... Help us test Plasma 6.2 Beta!

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.1.90/

One of the upcoming features is the drawing tablet assistant. Install Plasma 6.2 Beta, try out the assistant with your own device. If you find a bug 🪲, report it!

https://bugs.kde.org

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According to nvtop, on both my nvidia and AMD computers, kscreenlocker_greet uses 200-400MB of VRAM while the screen is locked -- doesn't that feel excessive for a simple screen locker (I do realize that it's QML and thus in theory can use as much VRAM as say plasmashell).

This is kind of annoying as I was trying to set up a chatbot using my main desktop while it's idle, and would like that extra 400MB back for a higher context length.

Wasn't sure if this was a bug or just how software is nowadays so I opted to start a discussion rather than finishing filing a bug at bugs.kde.org.

Anyway, anyone know of an alternative screenlocker for kwin_wayland?

I thought I would disable kscreenlocker completely (by setting the screen to never lock?) and use something like swayidle and swaylock, but it doesn't look like kwin supports the wayland extensions required to use swaylock.

GujjuGang7 on Reddit found this, saying:

Found this link while looking through the upcoming theming engine (Union) repository. It has mockups for several core apps (dolphin, Kate, konsole and more) and general components such as modals and titlebars.

KDE contributor Manueljlin would like to remind you:

hey folks, it's really early still. we didn't even properly show it at Akademy. there's no design system to properly back it up yet - only some tokens and components that are definitely subject to change. please keep that in mind

This Week in KDE Apps

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/09/22/this-week-in-kde-apps/

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I love this feature on macOS, I believe you can set something similar in Gnome, but couldn't reproduce it KDE. Someone suggest mapping spacebar to open the Information panel but it's definitively not as functional. Anyone knows a widget or any way to get something similar? Also, is there a way to save my theme and settings? Cheers!

This Week in KDE Apps

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/09/16/this-week-in-kde-apps/

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This week in Plasma: polishing like mad

https://pointieststick.com/2024/09/20/this-week-in-plasma-polishing-like-mad/

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ArchLinux and KDE are all rollingly updated to the latest version; black and white flashing dots will occasionally appear in the place where the mouse moves. This problem only occurs in wayland and does not exist in x11.

cross-posted from: https://mastodon.social/users/gcompris/statuses/113169422363593906

GCompris 4.2 is out! We have completed all translations to Latvian, improved the translations to several other languages and fixed some annoying bugs.

https://gcompris.net/news-en.html#2024-09-20

#education #kids #school

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I know how to do it in the battery section through the GUI, but I'd like to set it up through a command, for automation purposes, and particularly for KDE Connect commands.

I am trying to run a Plasma session as a different user from bash by running sudo -u $TARGET_USER dbus-launch --exit-with-session startplasma-wayland.

However, when trying to do so, I get an error "Could not create wayland socket".

My goal is to start a Plasma session as a specified user, wait for the user to log out and continue running the script.

• Does anyone know how I might be able to fix this error?
• Do you know of another way to start a Plasma session as a different user and wait for the session to exit?

I also tried to do the same using the sudo --preserve-env --set-home XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/users/$(id -u $TARGET_USER) switches.

When doing so, I get the following messages repeatedly:

No backend specified, automatically choosing drm
kwin_core: Failed to take control of /org/freedesktop/login1/session/_311 session. Maybe another compositor is running?
kwin_wayland_drm: Failed to open drm device at "/dev/dri/card1"
kwin_wayland_drm: No suitable DRM devices have been found

However, logging in to the tty with the $TARGET_USER directly and running dbus-launch --exit-with-session startplasma-wayland works properly as expected.

Here is the needed desktop file

Place it in ~/.local/share/applications/

Right click the Dolphin icon and select a profile!

Hi! I installed latest Plasma in Arch Linux recently, configured everything in Spanish from Argentina. I noticed the hour was in AM/PM format, and when I went to customize it and chage it to 24hr format, I now get a mixture of Spanish and what I think are default untraslated strings. I tried to change the language setting systemwide from the settings but without success. Any ideas on what is it that I'm missing?