KDE & Plasma users

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22351022

Welcome to a new issue of "This Week in KDE Apps"! Every week we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps.

This week, we released KDE Gear 24.08.3 and we are preparing the 24.12.0 release with the beta planned next week. The final release will happen on December 12th, but, meanwhile, and as part of the 2024 end-of-year fundraiser, you can "Adopt an App" in a symbolic effort to support your favorite KDE app.

One of the quickest ways to determine whether particular application runs using Xwayland is to resize one of its windows and see how it behaves, for example

While it can be handy for the debugging purposes, overall, it makes the KDE Plasma Wayland session look less polished. So, one of the goals for 6.3 was to fix this visual glitch.

This article will provide some background behind what caused the glitch and how we addressed it.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.kde.social/post/2184126

cross-posted from: https://floss.social/users/akademy/statuses/113344786509327188

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This is a relatively new issue, although I don't recall any recent updates that would have caused it.

When I plug in a USB stick or other device, the disk and device manager pops up twice; one is the normal one away from the edge of the screen, it goes away after about five seconds (like it should)

The second, behind it, is tucked up right against the edge of the screen and does not go away until I trigger and then minimize my application launcher.

Any ideas? I'm running Wayland because of the Maalit keyboard. Haven't tried to see if it duplicates it with X11.

I have 20'000 mostly mp4 or webm files
I used a naming scheme that has the last two digits signifying different criteria about the video
example joe 24070, joe 24050, joe 24051
joe 24051 is a revised edit of joe 24050
The first in the series of joe is joe 100, joe 110, joe 140

As an example I would like to sort all files ending in 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59
I can't specify a set number of characters as it changes as more content is added to the end of the series Kfind will do a dandy job of searching folders & subfolders, how would I set the search criteria?
Is there some other GUI tool?

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/13138420

Hi, i have been using KDE (now on KDE Neon)for a while as my daily driver and have been wanting to improve the email/calendar situation.

I have seen Merkuro releases and announcements, but no instructions on how to install it!

Please help - how do i use Merkuro!?!? is there a flatpak or repo somewhere.

TIA

I use Kcalc many times every day. It worked great. I use it in Simple mode. When they added the history display, I started using it from flatpaks to get that feature in older releases.

On Kubuntu 22.04, I am using Kcalc 23.04.3. It works exactly the way it used to - which is what I want.

On Kubuntu 18.04, I'm using Kcalc 24.05.2. It does not work as expected or desired.

I have no idea why I have different versions on the two notebooks. AFAIK, I installed them the same way.

On the old version, if I enter 1 * 2 =, the answer, 2 appears in the register. Clicking on the register copies it to my clipboard. Entering another digit clears the register and replaces it with the new digit. The old calculation and results are automatically out of the way.

On the new version, if I enter 1 * 2 =, 2 appears in a new space below the register and then disappears from that space and 2 appears in the register. Clicking on the register appears to do nothing. I have to double or triple click on it to select it and then press Ctrl+C to copy it to my clipboard. This is bad. But far worse, if I next type a 3, instead of the register containing 3, it appends the 3 and the register contains 23. This means I have to clear the register every time before I use it.

I have never seen a calculator that does this and don't want to!

What is going on? Do I have to find a way to get and pin the old version?

Why was this done?

Where is the best place to file or add to an issue to get this reverted?

I triggered an update via Discover, and I think I clicked the [x] (close) title bar button a little too quickly. Would that have stopped the update in mid update or does Discover do the update in a subprocess that continues even if Discover is closed?

I am trying to use the Device Auto-Mount feature in KDE Settings but it doesn't seem to be having any effect. I have selected On Login and On Attach for the drives I'm interested in, but after rebooting they aren't auto-mounted.

If I click on them in Dolphin I am prompted for my user password and then they get mounted.

Anyone know what might be going on or where I should look?

• I couldn't see any obvious errors in journalctl
• drives are not encrypted.
• running AuroraOS

and yes I know that I can set this up with fstab, but it would be good to understand why the GUI approach isn't working and hopefully fix it.

reported bug to kde https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490872

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17750813

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17750757

Randomly on my laptop screen this appears and debian just freezes. Sometimes these vertical lines don't appear and system freezes anyway. Its just random. How do i identify if this is hardware or software issue? and then how to identify exact piece of hardware or software causing this problem.

At one time when I would launch a program from the Task Manager the icon would stay in place, now when I launch something like Firefox for example, the Icon moves down to the bottom of the list. When I exit it moves back up to where it was.

I can't seem to find a setting that relates to this.

I am using just "Task Manager", is the thing I want in "Icons Only Task Manager"?

Hey friends!

Basically, here is my problem. I open the launcher menu (or KRunner) and start typing. Let's say I type "firefox", and hit Enter.

The launcher menu is very slow. It often opens "Files" instead, because that pops up after I type the first two letters.

Basically this means I need to wait a second for the launcher to finish searching, show me firefox, and then press enter.

This is frankly infuriating. Every other launcher on any other desktop or WM does not have this issue.

I have experienced this on two different machines running both Plasma 5 and 6, on different distros, both are beefy machines.

I'm sure there is a way to avoid it, does anybody know?

Hello,

Does anyone know if it is possible to order the playlist alphabetically? because I looked in the settings and didn't find an option to do this.

It's kind of annoying to find songs without them being sorted.

Hello.

I wanted to try to run Wayland + KDE 6 plasma. I've created the following tutorial that unfortunately has some errors inside,since the project does not work.

The steps that I have taken are the following :

1 - added user to the wheel and video groups :

sudo pw groupmod wheel video -m marietto


2 - sysrc

sudo sysrc -f /etc/rc.conf kld_list+="nvidia-modeset nvidia-drm linux linux64 i915kms"


3 - installed the following packages :


==> pkg install --glob "plasma6-*"
==> pkg install --glob "kf6-*"
==> pkg install plasma-wayland-protocols plasma6-xdg-desktop-portal-kde kf6-breeze-icons-6 kde6-devel

4- removed these packages :

pkg remove xdg-desktop-portal-wlr wlrobs grim slurp wlr-which-key wayland-protocols wayfire wf-shell wayfire-plugins-extra


5- setup locales :
 
# nano /etc/login.conf

italian|Italian Users Accounts:\
:charset=UTF-8:\
:lang=it_IT.UTF-8:\
:tc=default

# cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf
# pw usermod marietto -L italian

# nano /etc/profile

export LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
export MM_CHARSET=UTF-8

nano /etc/csh.login

setenv LANG it_IT.UTF-8
setenv MM_CHARSET UTF-8


6 - created a startup script called start-kde6

#!/bin/bash

export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config"
export XDG_CACHE_HOME="$HOME/.cache"
export XDG_DATA_HOME="$HOME/.local/share"
export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/var/run/user/`id -u`"

exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session ck-launch-session startplasma-wayland


7) made it executable :


chmod +x start-kde6


8) rebooted the machine and logged in as normal user and ran the startup script :


./start-kde6

I see a lot of errors and it didn't work :

dbus[4084]: Unable to set up transient service directory: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR "/var/run/user/1001" not available: No such file or directory
org.kde.startup: not a reply org.freedesktop.locale1 QDBusMessage(type=Error, service="", error name="org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown", 
error message="The name org.freedesktop.locale1 was not provided by any .service files", signature="s", 
contents=("The name org.freedesktop.locale1 was not provided by any .service files") )

Detected locale "C" with character encoding "US-ASCII", which is not UTF-8.
Qt depends on a UTF-8 locale, and has switched to "C.UTF-8" instead.
If this causes problems, reconfigure your locale. See the locale(1) manual
for more information.

No backend specified, automatically choosing drm

kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:39:34: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:40:29: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:41:29: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:42:29: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:43:29: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:44:27: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:45:27: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:46:27: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:47:27: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:48:29: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:49:29: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string
kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:49:29: too many errors

kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:49:29: failed to parse file
Unable to determine system time zone: please check your system configuration.
kwin_screencast: Failed to connect PipeWire context

Detected locale "C" with character encoding "US-ASCII", which is not UTF-8.
Qt depends on a UTF-8 locale, and has switched to "C.UTF-8" instead.
If this causes problems, reconfigure your locale. See the locale(1) manual for more information.

No backend specified, automatically choosing drm

Unable to determine system time zone: please check your system configuration.
kwin_screencast: Failed to connect PipeWire context
org.kde.startup: "kdeinit5_shutdown" QList() exited with code 255
startplasma-wayland: Shutting down...
startplasmacompositor: Shutting down...
startplasmacompositor: Done.

qt.qpa.wayland: "wl-shell" is a deprecated shell extension, prefer using "xdg-shell" if supported by the compositor by setting the 
environment variable QT_WAYLAND_SHELL_INTEGRATION

qt.qpa.wayland: "wl-shell" is a deprecated shell extension, prefer using "xdg-shell" if supported by the compositor by setting the 
environment variable QT_WAYLAND_SHELL_INTEGRATION

qt.qpa.wayland: Loading shell integration failed.
qt.qpa.wayland: Attempted to load the following shells QList("xdg-shell", "wl-shell", "ivi-shell", "qt-shell")
qt.qpa.wayland: Loading shell integration failed.
qt.qpa.wayland: Attempted to load the following shells QList("xdg-shell", "wl-shell", "ivi-shell", "qt-shell")
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in "" even though it was found.
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in "" even though it was found.
qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display :0
qt.qpa.plugin: From 6.5.0, xcb-cursor0 or libxcb-cursor0 is needed to load the Qt xcb platform plugin.
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: minimal, offscreen, vkkhrdisplay, vnc, xcb, wayland, wayland-egl.

qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display :0
qt.qpa.plugin: From 6.5.0, xcb-cursor0 or libxcb-cursor0 is needed to load the Qt xcb platform plugin.
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: minimal, offscreen, vkkhrdisplay, vnc, xcb, wayland, wayland-egl.

Claude.ai tells me that this exists but I don't see it on Kubuntu 18.04 or 22.04.

A checkbox or toggle switch labeled "Different widgets for each desktop" or "Separate widget sets for each desktop"

Is this real and what do I have to do to get to it?

x-y problem:

What I really want is a "sub-desktop" like a subfolder of a folder, but looking like a desktop - preferably without switching activities or opening an actual folder in Dolphin.

My problem is that with cryptocurrencies, I have icons for price URLs, icons for staking URLs, and icons for wallets. They're conceptually all part of one thing I'm doing, but there are too many to fit comfortably on one desktop.

And, I get them all arranged in groups on the screen exactly the way I want them and then I accidentally change resolution on an external monitor... and KDE rearranges them all in alphabetical order making the desktop almost useless.

At least if I could break them up into groups, it would be easier to recover from the above disaster.

Maybe having a bunch of activities would do it. I'm not sure how to approach this.

I am doing some Bitcoin calculations where I enter integer values (Satoshis) and then need to multiply them by 10**-8 to get the value in Bitcoins, e.g. to calculate price in US dollars.

I don't see how to do this other than by saving 0.00000001 in my clipboard.

I sort of got positive exponents to work, but the exponent functionality disappears as soon as I type a minus sign for the exponent for 10**-8 because it gets interpreted as a subtraction operator instead of as a unary sign.

I can just divide by 10**8 which works, but it's not quite as intuitive for me.

Is there a better way to do this?

Is this a bug?

I'm using Kcalc 23.04.3 in a flatpak on Kubuntu 22.04.

I have a plain text journal/log that I write and edit in Kate. This contains a number of floating point numbers and I often copy and paste them into Kcalc or LibreOffice Calc.

I would like to be able to double click on one of them and have it all selected so I can copy it into the clipboard. This does not work because it only selects the digits on one side of the decimal or the other which forces me to use the mouse to select the whole number - which is slower and more work for me.

When I'm doing this, I'm doing it a lot, so speed makes a difference to me.

Is there a way to temporarily tell Kate that the period/decimal is a word character so the double click will work?

Some of my numbers also have commas in them as thousands separators for readability, so including the comma as a word character would be nice as well.

This behavior would not be good as a permanent setting unless I could restrict it to something like a particular Kate profile... because I need the normal behavior the rest of the time.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

So....I updated my Manjaro to Plasma 6. Any chance that Minimal Menu (or something similar) exists?

I was not happy to find it gone. It's been a part of my system for so long that I honestly just forgot it wasn't default.

Now it doesn't even show up in the widget search and I'm honestly not sure I can live without it, largely because I can choose to centre it in the display on launch rather than having to choose either a) full-screen or b) right above the icon.

I can't even describe how upsetting it was to reboot after the update....

Part of the KDE login process on Kubuntu 22.04 shows me a gear spinner for a very short while. What does that signify? It still takes a while after it disappears before anything else happens.

Its also a sickness, after tidying my room and thinking I was finished, I had the strong urge to create a smooth Workflow where I also can't distract myself that easily.

I should have continued my work instead, that's why I said its a sickness. You get distracted by playing with your Desktop. But this wasn't that bad, it will stay forever.

I allowed myself to work on coding or school stuff on my first Virtual Desktop. Gaming on my second (and I use save session together with W window rules to make Steam spawn only on that Virtual Desktop). Additionally I allow Discord and Waterfox to stay on both Workspace and Gaming Space for chat/voice and music. Additionally I use often times my 3D Printer and thought, why not creating a Virtual Desktop for it so I can also easily create Art in Blender or also use Krita inside that Workspace besides accessing Octoprint. This will be my artistic space then. Misc is a Virtual Desktop where I use Signal Desktop and Syncthing, or manage System Settings whenever I feel I don't wan't to do it on any other Virtual Desktop.

I love KDE!

I've just upgraded to Plasma 6 on EndeavourOS and X11 works, but booting on Wayland via SDDM gives me a blank screen. The display enters power saving mode and switching to a TTY doesn't wake it up.

Anyone else having this problem, or with a workaround suggestion?

NVIDIA Driver 550.54.14-4
Operating System: EndeavourOS 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.0.0
Qt Version: 6.6.2
Kernel Version: 6.7.8-arch1-1 (64-bit)

When can I expect to be able to install Debian on a device (let's say, I'd use the "testing" branch) and have the choice to use KDE Plasma 6 as UI?

Can I expect this to happen during the next months?

Just curious...

PS: I'm not interested in other distributions, just the raw Debian with Plasma 6...