So recently had my system borked because of an incompatible library which leads me to my question. What is your preferred method for installing applications? I have Flatpak, Snap or Jammie available for repositories. I would love to keep my applications contained with no outside library dependencies but some applications do not offer this.

I've recently been upgraded to plasma 6.1.5 and notice that my focus stealing setting wasn't working like it did in the past. I've always (I think) had it set to low or medium, but now I find that quite often newly raised windows are appearing in the task bar but are hidden by existing windows. So, I've set to the option to <none> and things see to be working as before.

Is this a change in plasma 6 over 5?

hi,is there a way to change the white background of krusader to another color?and how can i do it?I messed around with the settings but i cant figure it out

Hey guys, I know this might sound stupid but is there some way to make the default "digital clock" widget "plasmoid" always stay on top of all windows without adding a full extra panel? Currently running KDe Plasma version 5.27.5 Frameworks version 5.103.0 just in case it matters.

When I see a Thunderbird notification that I have an email, I'll click it and I expect Thunderbird to be maximized and focused but instead the icon just blinks.

This happens frequently with notifications and other activities where you are performing an action that will interact with an application that isn't maximized and in front of you.

It's so alien to my experiences that I don't even think to look in the tray. Is there an obvious fix I've missed? As a bonus you get to claim you're smarter than ChatGPT, and me (within this context).

I switched from Windows to Tuxedo os and I’m happy with my experience so far with the KDE desktop. I was curious about the people to build and maintain it. What challenges do you face? What’s a difficult part of your work?

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Opacity is set to translucent

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Hi KDE community,

I wanted to bring attention to an issue that's been affecting users since 2015 and is still present today: desktop icons randomly scrambling their positions after a system reboot (bug #354802).

link: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354802

For those unfamiliar: after rebooting, desktop icons sometimes completely rearrange themselves (diagonally in my case), ignoring their previously set positions. This means having to reorganize your desktop layout frequently, which defeats the purpose of having a organized desktop workspace.

Some key points:

- Bug was first reported in 2015

- Still affecting users in 2024

- Occurs across different KDE Plasma versions

- Makes maintaining an organized desktop workspace frustrating

- Forces users to repeatedly reorganize their icons

I believe this deserves more attention from the development team. While KDE Plasma has made incredible progress in many areas, basic desktop functionality like maintaining icon positions should be reliable.

Has anyone else experienced this recently? Are there any workarounds you've found helpful? Maybe if we gather more recent cases and information, we can help push this toward a resolution.

Let's keep this visible so it can get the attention it needs!

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everything seems to work, but after extensive troubleshooting i cant seem to be able to send files from my laptop to my Note S8: when i click "share file" and then select a file absolutely nothing happens. Does anyone know why?

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every time i click the digital clock the calendar events change color. is it supposed to be like that ? note that also the dots under the dates change color. this started happening a couple of releases ago, i guess this summer. currently plasma 6.2.3 but its been going on since about 6.1 i reckon

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Hey, very specific but is really a chore to have to configure a pip windows every time i want to keep watching something so it can be in all desktops and above everything. Also it is actually possible to make then visible over full-screen apps? I haven't found a non disruptive way that doesn't makes all the browser window exist over everything...

By default, the "minimum time between updates" is set to "no limit", but this just restricts it to the lowest possible setting, which is 0.5 seconds between updates. I'm curious if there's any way I can lower it beyond 0.5 seconds.

Im using the default Application Launcher in KDE and I have it set up so that the favorites show 6 rows of icons. The top row is gaming related apps the 2nd row are internet 3rd is media apps etc. Every couple of days the order gets screwed and I have to set it up again. Times 2 because I have 2 monitors. This is extremely annoying and tedious. It never happened in KDE 5.

Is this a known bug? Is there any kind of fix or workaround?

I should say this is on Plasma v 6.2.3. I have the bug both on Manjaro and on Tumbleweed.

I am using the KDE Connect plugin that sends my desktops notifications to my phone. However, every single time I get a notification from Discord on my PC, it sends that to my phone. It's worse because I have a smart watch that buzzes when I get a notification on my phone, and it's gotten to the point where I have to put my watch and phone on silent because I'm talking to people on my desktop and receiving notifications on my phone. I hate doing this though because I miss important messages such as texts and calls.

I have browsed many other posts, however all of them are asking if they can disable certain *phone* apps from sending to the desktop. I would like to know if it is possible to restrict which *desktop* apps get sent to my phone. I have not seen any notification category in the desktop plugin settings.

I changed the file ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs to new paths.

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/tmp/2del"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/templates"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/public"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/audio"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/photos"
XDG_MEMES_DIR="$HOME/memes"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/videos"

However, Dolphin insists on using old values for these folders in the "favourites" tab on the left of the screen.

I tried running xdg-users-dirs-update

I tried restarting Dolphin

I tried rebooting

I tried echoing sample variables, like echo $XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR and get empty string as a reply - even after sourcing the ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs

Hi! I recently installed Arch Linux onto my laptop with KDE and so far I am loving it. There's one weird thing that I've been caught up on however; on my desktop PC running the same exact Arch Linux set up, I am able to install global themes from the system settings menu just fine, but when I do it on this laptop, every single time I go to the get themes menu, I see a gear loading icon and the headers and descriptions for each theme but no preview thumbnail and I cannot download them. After a while it will time out and give me the message "An error occurred connection closed" very descriptive, I know. Maybe the common denominator is that I did not grab the multilib repository on my archinstall on this laptop but I did on my desktop? I'm not sure. If there's any other extra information I can provide, let me know! I looked at this issue and the only thing people seem to be saying is that it's a server issue but I doubt it's just a server issue when I can do it just fine on my desktop PC and I can't on my laptop.

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The issues are mostly more of how displays are handled, but sometimes it pertains to the window of a program (namely, Firefox). Any help would be nice!

For context, here's my `neofetch`:

1. Whenever my laptop goes to sleep and is connected to another monitor, it swaps between going black and waking up on both screens.
2. Whenever I log into my laptop after it has fallen asleep and is connected to my main, stationary monitor, both monitors have their range overlapped onto each other. I always separate them in the display manager but the settings/preference never saves. This connection is from HDMI into a hub that feeds into my laptop via USB-C/Thunderbolt
3. Similar to point #2, when my laptop is connected to my external monitor via USB-C/Thunderbolt and falls asleep, it would awaken with the external monitor being logically disconnected and of a lower resolution than what I had previously set it as.
4. My laptop’s screen is always set to primary, but sometimes the main taskbar appears on the secondary monitor.
5. Also when I wake up my laptop, Firefox will often be in fullscreen mode on the second monitor alone.
6. When I wake up from sleep and a closed laptop, I can see the contents of my screen for half a second before it goes to the login screen. I’d like to keep sensitive information/activity hidden.

For context, here's my neofetch:

OS: EndeavourOS Linux x86_64
Host: XPS 13 9305
Kernel: 6.11.6-arch1-1
Uptime: 5 Hours, 3 mins
Packages: 1194 (pacman), 26 (flatpak)
Shell: fish 3.7.1
Resolution: 1920x1080, 1920x1080
DE: Plasma 6.2.3
WM: Kwin
Theme: Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3]
Icons: breeze [GTK2/3]
Terminal: tmux
CPU: 11th Gen Intel i5-1135G7 (8) @ 4.200GHz
GPU: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics]
Memory: 4493MiB / 7671 MiB

Not sure if this matters, but my shell should be Bash, and Fish should just be the interactive shell. I'd been having these issues before adding Fish.

I have a weird problem with filling out forms in a particular pdf: every string is shifted by one character after I finished filling, i.e if I type "asdf", it will be shown as "bteg" when I finished editing the forms.

The same happens when using atril, but foxit reader handles it well on windows.

However, I can edit other documents without any problem with okular, so it has to do something with the file itself, but I'm not sure what to do about it. Any ideas?

Edit.... I have no clue what i did, but my tablet isn't even recognized anymore...

I have a Huion Kanvas 22 I believe. Not exactly sure which edition but one of the newer ones. Anyways, I was calibrating it, trying to get it to be as perfectly aligned as I could possibly get it to be. Unfortunately, after a few tries, it seemed to just not work anymore. In my panicked state I tried to fix it whatever way I could... to no avail.

I tried to reset to the default settings, unplug and plug the tablet back in (plasma crashes whenever I unplug it) and eventually messed around with the displays....

Now, before I tell you what I have discovered, I must add that, in sddm, before logging in, the tablet runs just fine, set to my left-most screen. So its not a hardware, but a software issue.

Now, I do not understand how, but the area that the tablet is set to is Outside of the actual screen it is assigned to. its like it has negative values to where to fit on the screen. I have tried every setting and it just changes how far out it is set.

Now, the way I discovered this was by rearranging my screens on top of one another so they are in a straight line, then i set the tablet to the lowest monitor. trying to use my pen on it, makes it move on a diagonal line from somewhere top right to bottom left, seemingly trying to match where I am moving my pen to that line.

Please, I have no idea how to fix this. Trying to recalibrate is impossible as I'd need to move the location of the screens around. But to do that I need to switch to the display page in the settings. Doing that will cancel the calibration.