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Can one post app-making requests here?

I don't have app inquiries - just asking 😄

I want to start Konsole in Split View which is possible using the --layout command but then also run a command like htop in one of the sessions. How do I do that?

This is now the only thing standing between me and using Wayland as my daily driver. I have an all AMD PC running on two 27" 4k monitors. Setting them up to 200% is good, but too big. Setting them to 175% causes the font to be blurry. Not too blurry, but I can tell and it's not comfortable to look at for too long. Also, other UI elements are blurry, too regardless of the scaling. Although those elements aren't defaults, but still blurry and look out of place. For example, the oxygen window decoration buttons are very blurry. Hovering over those buttons shows a big blurry and empty box.

Anywho, I'm pretty sure the whole KDE team is aware of this, but my question is, is this being addressed in plasma 6? This is literally the only thing holding me back from Wayland. I love how snappy it is. Things are way quicker than x11. I want to use it. Thank you

Hello! I'm trying to do this:

but I can't seem to find a "good" way to do it:

if I just place it in the Kirigami.Page it is displayed, well, in the page, as in the image above.

Kirigami.ApplicationWindow {
   pageStack.initialPage: Kirigami.ScrollablePage {
      Kirigami.SearchField { // TODO move in the page header
         id: searchField
         Layout.fillWidth: true
      }
   }
}

if I place it in the header of the window it is displayed before the actual header even:

Kirigami.ApplicationWindow {
    header: Kirigami.SearchField { // TODO move in the page header
         id: searchField
         Layout.fillWidth: true
      }
   pageStack.initialPage: Kirigami.ScrollablePage {
     
   }
}

if I place it just before the Page it goes inside the header, but all aligned to the top instead of nicely in the center:

Kirigami.ApplicationWindow {
    Kirigami.SearchField { // TODO move in the page header
         id: searchField
         Layout.fillWidth: true
      }
   pageStack.initialPage: Kirigami.ScrollablePage {
     
   }
}

what is the correct way of doing this?

thanks in advance!

Krita artist and contributor, David Revoy, gets massive exhibition in mall

@davidrevoy, creator of the popular Pepper and Carrot webcomic (https://www.peppercarrot.com/), has been honored with an exhibition of his work in a French mall. Massive murals with images from his comics are displayed all over the shopping center at Plérin, Brittany.

David is an active @Krita contributor, and will be signing copies of his work at the mall on Saturday, the 4th of November.

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article992/large-exhibition-in-plerin-france

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I have been curious for some time now if there is any difference between them besides one being located in "Display Configuration" and the other in "Power Management". They seem a bit redundant to me so as if the folks from the Plasma team weren't sure where to put and how to name it, lol. >.<

Where is the source code for #KDE Klipper hosted? The link in the handbook was broken. @kde

Hello folks! I’ve been having this issue seen in the screenshot. I get this Wayland window and krunner and other things run in there. After a time I even get the login screen inside the wayland window. If I close it I lose krunner, alt-tab, and other keyboard shortcuts.

Not sure how this is happening or how to make it go away. I did try Wayland at one point but it wasn’t quite working out for me and since I reverted back to X11 I get this issue.

If anyone’s wondering, my main issue with Wayland was that it wasn’t setting the DISPLAY and WAYLAND_DISPLAY environment variables for some reason, and this would cause all kinds of software like Steam and Firefox to not even launch. I tried setting them manually but that didn’t go do well either.

Edit: Thank you all! With your help I managed to find and fix it - it was my fault due to a systemd override launching a service after kwin_wayland.

[Unit]
Requires=plasma-kwin_wayland.service
After=plasma-kwin_wayland.service
[Install]
WantedBy=graphical-session.target

That was the issue. Remved the override and everything works!
I even tried Wayland again and now the display variables are defined correctly from the get go and everything works - although this has been on again off again so it might stop working at one point.

Come and visit the KDE booth at FOSSCOMM in Heraklion

Meet us at the University of Crete, Voutes Campus to find out from George about the latest features in KDE's catalogue of powerful software.

https://2023.fosscomm.gr/en.html

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tried plasma a year back and gave up because I couldn't get the above setup to work (annoying lines appearing while typing) on three different laptops (125, 133, 150%). there was supposedly a fix (increasing line spacing) but that didn't work for me. just checking in to see if some workaround came to light? thanks.

Hello fellow KDE users! I use KDE Plasma on my tablet, but found windows managements a bit painful when using only the touchscreen, so I wrote this KWin script: it just organize automatically each window in a separate virtual desktop, maximized and borderless, allowing you to use the built in touchscreen gestures (3 fingers slide) to switch between them (animations are real smooth!)
I also released it on pling/kde store

Hope you'll find it useful! Let me know your thoughts about this!

I have an issue with NVIDIA and wayland which persists since Kubuntu 22.10. It still happens in 23.10.

Normally I run Wayland with the integrated Intel GPU and everything is fine.

If I want to play a game then I run "prime-select nvidia" and reboot. However if I run "glxinfo | grep renderer" after that, the output is the Intel GPU. ("prime-select query" outputs nvidia).

If I switch to X11 then everything runs on the NVIDIA GPU which is fine. But I wanted to use Wayland with NVIDIA and thought it should work by now.

Any ideas what is going on?

I am running Kubuntu 23.10 on Wayland and Firefox (snap version) does not show a Minimize or Maximize Button anymore in the top right corner (see attached screenshot).

How can I bring these buttons back?

Krita 🖌️ is now available on the macOS store.

If you are an #Apple #Mac user, you can now install KDE's powerful #painting program @Krita directly to your #macOS-powered machine.

Read why it took so long and how to avoid scammy knock-offs (of which there are quite few) here:

https://krita.org/en/item/krita-in-stores-update/

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Final date for Plasma 6 release confirmed!

Our countdown clock will reach zero on the 28th of February 2024:

https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/

Check out the full #Plasma6 timeline until release at

https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2023/10/kde-february-mega-release-schedule.html

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publicado de forma cruzada desde: https://lemmy.ca/post/7400611

publicado de forma cruzada desde: https://lemmy.ca/post/7400605

So I jumped ship from Windows to Kubuntu last night, and It's mostly been pretty good. However my general performance of the computer has been abysmal. Like it takes upwards of 5 seconds to open anything. All of my hardware seems to be running at max speeds, so I have no idea why it would be so sluggish? It's as if I'm running on 2gb of ram and a cpu at like 1.5ghz. My specs are:

i7-8700k at 4.7mhz max Amd Rx 6750xt 16gb ram at 3200mhz Linux is on an m.2

Any ideas? This is practically unusable for any normal operations, let alone any gaming.

I hope this doesn't violate the low-quality rule. For those who don't know, when you right click an archive in Dolphin, the extract menu has a "Extract archive here, autodetect subfolder" option and its absolutely brilliant! If you've ever extracted a zip, tar, etc and ended up with files splattered everywhere this feature will prevent that. Basically when you choose this option it will:

• Look to see if the archive has a top level folder, if it does, it will extract it normally
• If it does not (so all of the files are at the top level), it will automatically create a folder for the archive and extract those top level files into it

It's something I really wish other file managers had, and is just another one of those features from the KDE team that gives me the "The developer(s) who created this also use this in their daily lives" impression (which is not to say that others don't). You can of course just open your favorite archive utility and manually check, then manually make the folder yourself and extract the files into there, but this lets me skip those couple of steps and I appreciate that so much.