General Info:

Graphics platform: X11

Processors: 8 x Intel Core i5-8300H CPU @ 2.30Ghz

Memory: 7.6 GiB of RAM

Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti/PCIe/SSE2

Hi, I have been using Linux with KDE for 2 years now. And while it's great, for the past couple of months, I have been encountering issues with my trackpad

sometimes, out of nowhere, the trackpad just stop working for no reason. Plugging an external computer mouse appears to work fine. The only way to fix it is by doing a hard reset on the computer.

I don't know why this happens, it mostly appears out of nowhere, and the only times it does happen is when google chrome is running in the background. However killing chrome appears to not fix the issue

What should I do to fix this? I can provide any other context if needed, thanks

I just did a fresh install of KDE 6 on Arch. I'd like to theme KDE to look like MacOS because I really like the look of the MacOS theme.

I've tried various global themes from the KDE settings, but they don't look right, almost as if they are not optimized for KDE 6 (I'm guessing this is the case).

I followed a few tutorial videos from YouTube but the theme never really comes out right or ends up looking as they describe in the video. Again, I believe this is because these tutorials were made for KDE 5 and not 6.

Does anyone know where I can find a guide to theme KDE 6 and make it look like MacOS?

Also, what dock would these themes use? Latte dock is dead and several other docks are no long maintained. How does one use a working dock in KDE 6?

Thank you for your time.

I recently upgraded my fedora kinoite install to plasma 6 after being on 5.27.11 for a while, and unfortunately this issue remains.

I have two monitors. The primary one is 2560x1440@170hz 125% scaling, and the other is 3840x2160@60hz 175% scaling. In my display settings I have the "Legacy applications (X11)" setting set to "Apply scaling themselves". I have to have it set to this because if I set it to "Scaled by the system", games no longer allow me to use my monitor's native resolution and they look pretty blurry.

The problem I run into is that xwayland applications will scale based on the second monitor's resolution and scaling factor when running on the primary monitor rather than its own scaling factor. This affects games as well as programs like Steam. For instance, when I run Baldur's Gate 3 with this setup, the cursor is irritatingly small. Whereas when I set the second monitor to 2560x1440@60hz 125% scaling, everything scales properly. Visual example on the primary monitor.

Another example is how Steam itself scales. Just to note, I have an environment variable in Steam's .desktop file to make it scale at 150% scaling. Yet Steam's scaling will still depend on the fractional scaling factor of the second monitor. Visual example on the primary monitor.

The workaround I've been using for months is to just set them both to the same resolution and scaling factor, but this results in my second monitor being blurry because it's not at its native resolution. I was hoping that plasma 6 with its multitude of improvements to fractional scaling would have helped resolve this, but it seems not.

Just to be clear, the problem is not that the monitors scale things differently. It's that the scaling factor of the second non-primary monitor influences how things scale on the primary monitor.

Has anyone else run into this and/or know of a solution? Thanks in advance.

I'm trying to reinstall veadotube mini on my computer- i just switched over from windows, but. When the .zip file isn't recognized as a .zip file, i have no idea where to even start with fixing this. I let the dev know about this, but I want to see if yall have any way to fix this or find out the cause.

Whenever I change audio using volume keyboard keys (KEY_VOLUMEUPand KEY_VOLUMEDOWN), a popup shows up displaying current volume: https://i.imgur.com/pCG4Vjp.png.

How to call this widget without changing the volume? I know I could use this:

qdbus org.kde.kglobalaccel /component/kmix invokeShortcut 'increase_volume'

It works, but this is the command to increase the volume, it's the same as pressing KEY_VOLUMEUP. I want to display the volume without changing it.

More context: I use a remap app to be able to change volume using mouse stroke (hold a button pressed down, then turn mousewheel to change volume). But KDE seems to have a time brake for cumulative KEY_VOLUMEUP / KEY_VOLUMEDOWN calls, so if I quickly turn mousewheel to change volume by a lot, it actually only changes volume by 10% or so. I need to turn wheel slowly for all the turning wheel steps get recognized. To fix that, I can run amixer set Master 5%+ instead of triggering KEY_VOLUMEUP, but then I miss the volume indicator on the screen. So I want a command to use along amixer to display current volume after changing it.

I switched to Wayland with Plasma 6 for a few weeks now, but I actually spend most of my time on X11. Let me explain:

• drag and drop doesn't work on Chromium
• Smplayer needs to be set for "Wayland support" which actually makes smplayer run in Xwayland
• Libreoffice crashes after unlocking the screen

The solution to all three problems is to use Xwayland to run the applications.

So I use Wayland but actually 90% of the time I'm using Xorg.

Under KHotkeys, I had /usr/share/khotkeys/c0rn3j.khotkeys that got imported upon Plasma load.

Now that they are gone, I see that /usr/share/kglobalaccel exists, but it's all .desktop entries.

I can add entries per-custom-command, but I do not see a way to name these entries.
I do not see a way to add one entry where I would add all my custom commands, much less also name/comment on them.

How can I import a kksrc file outside of the GUI? I desire to automate this via Ansible.

Moreover, it looks like adding a custom command - i.e. /usr/local/bin/corn-toggleaudio can't have flags added, and it automatically creates a .desktop file from the GUI tools?

/home/c0rn3j/.local/share/applications/corn-toggleaudio.desktop  

[Desktop Entry]
Exec=/usr/local/bin/corn-toggleaudio
Name=/usr/local/bin/corn-toggleaudio
NoDisplay=true
StartupNotify=false
Type=Application
X-KDE-GlobalAccel-CommandShortcut=true

command.kksrc

[corn-toggleaudio.desktop][Global Shortcuts]
_launch=Meta+A

I presume I could somehow abuse kwrite for it at least?

Using Plasma 6.0.4 on Arch Linux.

Just updated to Fedora 40 beta. KDE looks so good now with revamped Breeze and I don't know what happened but with this update Outer Wilds runs smoothly at constant FPS. Earlier KDE versions didn't run it even at 40 but I guess they fixed something and now it runs smoothly.

Seeing as Gnome 46.1 already got it I was curious if the Plasma team had plans to include it soon or would they rather wait for 6.1.

Personally, I'm still waiting for Nvidia to release the 555 driver in May 15, but even if I got it, the thought of still not being able to use Plasma 6 with Wayland because of the missing Explicit Sync support is a little sad, although understandable.

System Info:

https://preview.redd.it/uosrmqfhkfvc1.png?width=948&format=png&auto=webp&s=130d07b34ca8312b3f0b36ba820039017cd94dbc

Bug Video

https://reddit.com/link/1c7vsnn/video/per1w5makfvc1/player

Can anyone else confirm a problem whereby Dolphin crashes when dragging a file into a parent directory in the path bar?

It's reproducible, every time I try it Dolphin crashes.

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Tldr; Dolphin freezes every time I open a window and after 8 minutes I can do one action and then it does the same thing, it is essentially unusable.

I've determined the issue to be xattr extended attributes "tags"

CONTEXT: Previous Post

I posted on the KDE subreddit a bit earlier asking how to get Dolphin to show some the tags that a script of mine applied to a image drop. I added the directory to be indexed and I got it to index quickly.

The issue is that these files dont get one tag out of 20, there are like a few hundred tags and each image averages about 8 of them.

My hypothesis is that Dolphin loads every single tag in that little sidebar section on the bottom and because it loads all of these tags constantly every time I interact with the window it just becomes unusable. I think it's like querying every separate tag as a search but I don't know what's "under the hood"

I confirmed that the tags are the issue by dumping the file indexing data in my system settings and altering my script to strip off all the file attributes. After a reboot Dolphin returns to being a super useful and responsive tool, presumably because there's not a giant net of a few hundred tags for it to be constantly re-loading.

This basically means I can't really utilize tags as a way to organize dumps of images I get which is a shame. I don't think that there is a way to fix it as a user, maybe this warrants a github issue/request? Or am I just being oblivious?

In the meantime I will try to see if other file managers will struggle the same way or not.

I keep losing some but not all of the kwin effects, in particular the genuinely useful ones: Desktop Grid, Present Windows, and Blur (behind translucent areas). (But then I would of course notice their absence above all.)

Sometimes it’s just Blur. And the fade effect when you switch desktops always stays.

And when I go to collect evidence and narrow down the problem and find a place to seek help, they’ve all turned back on!

It is so WEIRD . It happens all the time (twice while typing this). And some workspace-switching seems to un-break it… sometimes. Really not sure what the pattern is.

PS: I *love* the Desktop Grid. All of the necessary functionality, none of limitations or complexity or extra steps involved in using the Overview. Just… everything, on one screen. What a concept!

Output of qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin supportInformation: https://pastebin.ai/4odb10cwqj

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I'm on KDE Wayland and using a 4k 27" monitor at 200% scaling. In Firefox, whenever I hover my cursor over a link or button and it changes between the pointer and the hand, it is slightly offset or "jumpy". This doesn't happen in Chromium.

It has been annoying me for the past month, even since I switchde to Linux on my PC (no not my first time).

I made my first bash script today and basically it used extended attributes (`setfattr`) to slice up the file names and automatically apply the the values to "user.xdg.tags", super proud of it and I confirmed that it works as I can get the attributes in konsole and I see that in the list entries as I'm in the folder on Dolphin.

However even after restarting, they do not appear in the Dolphin search bar on the lefthand side (below "places"). The :tags location only shows the prior tags I had that were manual. I've read a term called "indexing" but I know nothing about how it works, just that it lets me search quickly.

I understand that it probably is not automatic but I cannot see a command to get it to appear there and there are several dozen different types of tags so doing it manually will take ages. I am a novice so there are huge gaps in my knowledge.

Can anyone here give me guidance on what I could include in my bash script to get Dolphin to automatically update with new tags as they are added to the files I operate on?

EDIT: FIXED

1. If you have files on a separate drive you may need to add the root directory of the drive to be indexed in the File Search section

2. If your files are hidden, check the box to enable hidden files to be indexed

3. Restart

Hi all,

The `Lock Keys Status` widget doesn't work on KDE Plasma 6. What's the option currently?

I imported my .config folder and it loaded all my configurations but when i try editing my widgets or applets it does not save anything instead it just returns to its first state when i last imported it ignoring my changes

I noticed a few weeks ago that my notifications in discord weren't working right. I never got the pop-up and they never made it to my notifications widget.

I tried ferdium and discord app... both packaged, and from flatpak installs.

Discord just refused to work right with notifications.

Then I was just using Ferdium on my debian laptop and noticed they work fine on plasma5.

Anyone else? Just me? Maybe something in my kde settings?

All other notifications seem to work just fine.

https://preview.redd.it/ll4ji76lqavc1.png?width=125&format=png&auto=webp&s=1f5ee2e6b47ac8c2940f015a87300687f2646a13

The pin icon next to the spotify logo, it's on every window border but i've noticed no changes when its clicked. What does it actually do?

I have issues with freesync Flicker on 144 Hz Most of the time in Game menu's and sometimes in-game

When you guys enable the adaptive sync in display settings to always, does your screen flicker too?

I thought it was my monitor so I grabbed a different one from my friend and it's still the same.

On both monitors when I switch to 120 Hz the flickering is gone, even when adaptive sync is set to always.

I tested it on EndeavorOS KDE and Nobara KDE.

On Windows the flickering is not that noticable like on Linux and almost gone since I changed my DP cable

Is this a hardware related issue on my end like GPU or grounding issue ?

My setup: AOC G1 32 Monitor 144hz friends monitor some MSI 27" 144hz Rx6800 5950x Rog strix b550 a-gaming 650 Watt Platinum 32gb RAM

Google Chrome (from AUR): 124.0.6367.60 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Won't start with Preferred Ozone platform set to auto or Wayland in chrome://flags
Since I have Nvidia GPU, apps not using Wayland are performing terribly with a lot of flickering.

Is there anything I can do?

i dont like those thin breeze icons in the tray area (network, volume, clipboard and so on) in plasma 6.

in plasma 5 those would be part of the desktoptheme but not anymore. im stuck on how to change them to match the papirus icon theme.

any clues?

I'm trying wayland now, but I'm seeing these weird "gaps" like this:

Sorry for the quality, can't screenshot - none of my screenshot apps are working.

Anyone with the same experience? I tried to delete all my plasma config, reset to factory, but I'm still seeing this. It's not only on the menu, either - popups get almost to the middle of the screen (like screen preview of minimized apps), notification popups also have the same gap, etc. From what I can understand, seems that KDE Plasma and the popups are working with a different window size:

https://preview.redd.it/gyfmjocji8vc1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=af4b82f58f218d4ce57eb948af1cb2ace5b64d24

Look at where the mouse is, and where the notification is appearing - it's misplaced horizontally and vertically :(

Hi. I'm on KDE Plasma v: 5.27.5 wm, on MX Linux 23, Debian 12, with systemd, and some of my programs will not autostart.

One is Discover. I have the command sleep 10 && plasma-discover --mode Update entered under Startup and Shutdown / Autostart / Applications and it does not work.

Currently I'm trying to get imwheel to autostart. I've tried manually entering imwheel under that same Applications location. Then I made a script to point to imwheel and entered it under Login Scripts, both with no luck.

If I enter imwheel in Terminal, it starts. If I manually run the script I made, imwheel starts.

At Autostart I initially tried prefacing these commands with sleep 20 && , but abandoned that when they didn't work. But they still didn't work.

So I must be doing something wrong, but I don't know what.

Thanks for any insight.

Hi. I'm on KDE Plasma v: 5.27.5 wm, on MX Linux 23, Debian 12, with systemd, and some of my programs will not autostart.

One is Discover. I have the command sleep 10 && plasma-discover --mode Update entered under Startup and Shutdown / Autostart / Applications and it does not work.

Currently I'm trying to get imwheel to autostart. I've tried manually entering imwheel under that same Applications location. Then I made a script to point to imwheel and entered it under Login Scripts, both with no luck.

If I enter imwheel in Terminal, it starts. If I manually run the script I made, imwheel starts.

At Autostart I initially tried prefacing these commands with sleep 20 && , but abandoned that when they didn't work. But they still didn't work.

So I must be doing something wrong, but I don't know what.

Thanks for any insight.