This one looks pretty damn good if you are into the look Windows 7 had.

Hello!

Do you hate the watermark preview banner?

Add the text HideDesktopPreviewBanner=true just after [General] in the file ~/.config/kdeglobals. You will have something as the following:

[General]
HideDesktopPreviewBanner=true

Better for OLEDs displays, stylish, auto-suspend all-blacks displays, etc.

Src: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/b15d9f41f7f41210b1dd5a78dc1b1894bd40c3dd#16f843a94440a858a2387e36472454ab5685e179_193_196

is there a shortcut for dismissing notifications in KDE? They go away on their own but a shortcut would be great

Thank you in advance :)

This may help some folks who want to use Okular but also have their PDF files reopen between restarts. You can call saveokular.sh from cron and some other tricks so this is all seamless:

$ cat /usr/local/bin/openokular.sh

#!/bin/bash

Check if the file with paths exists

if [ ! -f ~/.okular_open_files.txt ]; then

echo "No saved PDF paths found."

exit 1

fi

Open PDFs in Okular

echo $1 >> ~/.okular_open_files.txt

sed -i '/^$/d' ~/.okular_open_files.txt

cat ~/.okular_open_files.txt | xargs -d '\n' /usr/bin/orig_okular &

$ cat /usr/local/bin/saveokular.sh

#!/bin/bash

if pid=$(ps -C orig_okular -o pid= | sed -e 's/\s//g') && [[ -n $pid ]]; then

ls -l /proc/"$pid"/fd | grep '.pdf' | awk -F ' -> ' '{print $2}' > ~/.okular_open_files.txt

fi

For the Slideshow option on Desktop Settings / Wallpaper, and the user is using the Random order and a new file appears in one of the wallpaper folders, make that image the next one to show.

Probably the big news is that we released the Plasma 6 Alpha today! What does that mean? Well, go read this blog post by David Edmundson to find out! In a nutshell, you should try out the Plasma 6 Alpha out using one of these distros (or by building it yourself using kdesrc-build) if you’re an adventurous person who has a backup and wants to help make the final release better by reporting bugs or even fixing them. It really does help!

They look like a mix of Oxygen and Breeze. And look absolutely beautiful!

Much better than the current Breeze icons which look overly simple and flat.

This is the type of visual overhaul I was talking about.

These icons coupled with a great default wallpaper will make Plasma 6 look awesome!

Thanks to the great work from Ken Vermette who initially created the new icon set, and Niccolò Venerandi, who took over and improved it!

Hello,

I'm trying to get kwin-wayland to use just a part of my monitor, with X11 I did it with xrandr, but I'm not sure how to best do that with Wayland.

I have a messed up monitor and using only the bottom right corner makes it more acceptable, but for that I need no pixel lit on the top left corner.

Thanks for any hint!

"Chill your Champagne bottles – it’s official: the KDE Plasma 6.0 + KDE Frameworks 6.0 + KDE Gear 24.02 Mega Release™ that will take KDE software to the next level is going to happen on 28th February 2024! Let’s have a look at what I’ve been up to in the past two months, again working mostly on either Qt itself or dealing with its behavior changes on the application side."

I'm a new user of KDE having recently installed OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I'm happy with most of it, but I have one big annoyance: the incessant appearance of tooltips and them not going away when the mouse moves. This is on X11, not Wayland.

I often have windows overlapping or next to each other. When switching windows and moving the mouse, I move over an inactive window to the active one. A tooltip then appears for an item of the inactive window that is in the background. In my opinion it shouldn't, because the window is inactive, but it does. What is even more annoying is that the tooltip will remain on screen, over the active window, even when I maximize the active window. It will be displayed on top of it. It often happens that I fullscreen a video only for there to be a tooltip from an inactive window displayed over it, or a tooltip from the program that spawned the fullscreen video.

The only way to remove the tooltip is to activate the inactive window, move my mouse so the tooltip disappears, switch to the previous window again and then very carefully make sure I don't trigger any new tooltips in the inactive window. I'm not always successful at this, which means I have to repeat this process. This seriously impacts my enjoyment of the system.

I have already tried some solutions, disabling tooltips for titlebars in the System settings/Appearance/Window Decorations/Titlebar Buttons section and unchecking the "Display informational tooltips on mouse hover" checkbox in Workspace behaviour. Signing out and back in and rebooting have no effect. The options just don't do anything, except remove the window preview tooltips from the Task Manager, which I do need to navigate between windows. These previews should not be classified as tooltips in my opinion, but that's another matter.

What are some other options I could try? Even though I appreciate tooltips sometimes to help me learn about this new system, at this point I'd rather there be none at all than having to deal with this annoying behaviour. Ideally I would like to disable tooltips for inactive windows, or conversely only show them for active windows. If that's not possible however, I'd like to learn how to disable them completely since the options in settings have no effect.

Some software information:
KDE: 5.27.8
KDE Frameworks: 5.110.0
Qt: 5.15.11
Kernel: 6.5.6-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics platform: X11

Thanks for any suggestions.

I like to have the same wallpaper for every aspect of the system, maybe there's a script?

After installing KDE on my laptop and spending few hours configuring it to my liking, I found that I can't make toolbar in Dolphin as thin as I would like without impacting usability. Currently it looks like this:

While I want it to look like this:

Is there any way to do this? A thinner theme (one that hopefully has GTK counterpart)? Application specific override? Setting that I have overlooked?

Whether you are into casual, retro or AAA #gaming, KDE has something for you 🎮🎲!

#Plasma6 is coming in February 2024. Support #KDE with an official membership and your name will be recorded in the release of our brand new desktop environment.

This where your donation will make a difference:

• Sprints for Developers: You will help finance the in-person meetups that keep our developers energized and focused on making KDE even better.
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Another month, another Plasma 6 update. I’ve been pretty busy during the past weeks, mostly further improving the Wayland session, fractional scaling, and dealing with Qt bugs. Working under the hood like this is tremendously important albeit somewhat ungrateful when there aren’t any pretty pictures to show.