I just want to know what’s the most lightweight KDE distribution?

I'm trying to recreate the GNOME top bar in KDE, just because I like how it looks although I'm not a big fan of GNOME, and I'm just wondering if there's a way to hide all open apps from the panel. I was watching a video by Michael Horn about KDE customization and it looked like this

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Hey I wonder if anyone experience font problem in Bleachbit after update?

The arrow sems to bit large. And if you have a solution to it? Like I said not a big problem. Can live with it.

Hey yall, I started using linux a few months ago and love it, but theres this KDE bug that is making it genuinely unbearable to use.

Basically, KDE breaks whenever I turn my monitor off then turn it back on.

I like to turn my screen off whenever I walk away for a few minutes to save the pixels, and I have tested it with four different distros running KDE and they all have the same bug where the system runs completely fine with no issues, but is incapable of displaying an image once the screen is turned off and turned back on again. I played music through my headphones to test, and while the screen was off it was even able to tell when one song ended and start playing the next, but there was zero signal from the computer once I turned the monitor back on again, even though audio kept playing. So I assume the OS itself is completely fine, but theres something wrong with KDE since that is the graphical part of the OS.

ATP im more curious about the bug itself rather than a solution, since it seems super weird that the state of the display that KDE is sending signals to would matter to it at all, so I hope that I don't just sound like im whining. But any info on how to stop this from happening would basically be the last fix I need to finally love linux.

(For reference, this has occured on 5.0 version of KDE using both X11 and Wayland, and KDE versions above 6.0)

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dont know how to change the line sticking out the bar

Hi, I'm noticing a strange behavior in dolphin: when I click on the "create new" menu instead of showing me the various options it lists the contents of my home.

Do you know if a related bug has already been opened?

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Has anyone had a similar issue when trying to download a global theme? What service do I need to look into to see what happened?

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This is a feature I'm very used to on Windows
Say, in my Downloads directory there is a folder called Dog, and a file called Dog.jpg,
on Windows if I type "d o" or "d o g " it will cycle between all simlar files, first it will go to the folder, then if i type it again it will go to the file

On KDE it only hits the first similar result and stops.
Similarly, if I have a folder called "Dog" and a file called "Dog" in my downloads
If I type "do"/"dog" it will jump to the folder Dog, but no matter how much I retype, it wont cycle to the next similar item

It may seem like a nitpick feature, but actually I use this ALL the time, and it saves so much navigating around the system. The lack of this feature is sorely missed. Is there any way to get it on KDE ?

On GNOME Nautilus, you can search file types, from audio, video, documents, and etc.

Does Dolphin have an equivalent search option to that? I haven't been able to find one...

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

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.