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I know. I'm such a n00b.

I've held off on upgrading my system for a couple of months since there was a good amount of issues posted on this sub when 6 was initially launched. Today I wanted to try to update, but I'm having some difficulties when running pkcon:

$ sudo pkcon update 
Getting updates                         [=========================]         
Finished                                [=========================]         
Testing changes                         [=========================]         
Finished                                [=========================]         
Fatal error: The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  breeze: Depends: kde-style-breeze (= 4:6.0.4-0xneon+22.04+jammy+release+build59) but 4:5.27.10-0xneon+22.04+jammy+release+build44 is to be installed
  packagekit-tools: Depends: packagekit (= 1.2.8-0xneon+22.04+jammy+release+build15) but 1.2.8-0xneon+22.04+jammy+release+build14 is to be installed
  plasma-workspace: Depends: liblayershellqtinterface5 (>= 5.27.10) but it is not installable
  kde-style-oxygen-qt5: Depends: liboxygenstyle5-5 (= 4:5.27.10-0xneon+22.04+jammy+release+build30) but 4:6.0.4-0xneon+22.04+jammy+release+build44 is to be installed
                        Depends: liboxygenstyleconfig5-5 (= 4:5.27.10-0xneon+22.04+jammy+release+build30) but 4:6.0.4-0xneon+22.04+jammy+release+build44 is to be installed
  powerdevil: Depends: powerdevil-data (= 4:5.27.10-0xneon+22.04+jammy+release+build36) but 4:6.0.4-0xneon+22.04+jammy+release+build46 is to be installed
  plasma-discover: Depends: plasma-discover-common (= 5.27.10.1-0xneon+22.04+jammy+release+build42) but 6.0.4-0xneon+22.04+jammy+release+build57 is to be installed
                   Recommends: plasma-discover-backend-snap but it is not going to be installed
  plasma-desktop: Depends: plasma-desktop-data (= 4:5.27.10-0xneon+22.04+jammy+release+build47)
                  Recommends: kde-config-screenlocker (>= 5.14)

Does anyone know what causes this and how to fix it? I'm on the user edition. I've tried doing apt dist-upgrade and apt full-upgrade, which both installed and upgraded some packages, but I get the same error from pkcon after a refresh → update.

Edit: Some extra info:

$ sudo apt dist-upgrade 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  appstream breeze breeze-cursor-theme drkonqi-pk-debug-installer frameworkintegration kde-spectacle kde-style-breeze kde-style-oxygen-qt5 kinfocenter
  kscreen kwin-common kwin-data kwin-style-breeze kwin-wayland kwin-x11 layer-shell-qt libappstream4 libkscreenlocker5 libkwineffects14
  libkwinglutils14 liboxygenstyle5-5 liboxygenstyleconfig5-5 libpowerdevilcore2 packagekit packagekit-tools plasma-browser-integration plasma-desktop
  plasma-desktop-data plasma-discover plasma-discover-backend-flatpak plasma-discover-common plasma-workspace powerdevil powerdevil-data
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 34 not upgraded.

I also tried the answer in this question on askubuntu, but the error persists.

I am running the latest KDE Neon on Plasma 6, but as mentioned in title, I cannot change the power profile. It stays on Power Save. If I move the bar to Balanced or Performance, it flips back to Power Save within .5 sec. Anyone have hints on what to install to get it working ? I've run amdgpu-install (had to change my os-release file to Ubuntu for it to work), but that made no difference. I guess it's just for GPU, but I was hoping it would be for cpu/system as well.

Hello,

After updating my nvidia settings using this guide the internal display remains opened with an underline displayed in the top left corner and cannot find a way to disable it. It doesn't appear in neither nvidia settings app, nor the settings of KDE.

I have a laptop with 2 external displays:

• main external display is on hdmi (with id HDMI-0)

• secondary external display is on mini display port (with id DP-3)

To make it clear, the internal display is not visible if I set my xorg.conf using those settings. If I remove xorg.conf and reboot, the internal display is visible inside KDE settings.

Anyone knows how to keep those settings and also disable the internal display?

Pretty new user here, I have tried so many things to find a thermal monitor software but i just can’t seem to find one that is what I need like psensor and most don’t work at all. All past posts on this topic seem to send me right back to the same softwares and widgets that don’t work. Does anyone have any updated suggestions on this topic? I am running a ryzen 7 1700x and an rx580 if that helps any. Thank you in advance.

Edit: Fixed, see my comment.

I'm trying to install Neon (build is 06th May, 2024) on a ThinkPad T490 that already has Windows 10 on it. I resized the Windows partition and everything ran smoothly until the very last stage of the install, when I got the following error:

The bootloader could not be installed. The installation command <pre>grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=neon --force</pre> returned error code 1.

I searched this error and it seems to be related to there not being a /boot/efi folder, but the other case I observed was an HP laptop has a UEFI that refuses to boot GRUB. This is the first time I have tried to install linux on this machine, and as far as I know ThinkPads should not have any issues with running GRUB.

I also opened the boot directory of the newly created root partition (it was mounted by the live image at /tmp/calamares-root-vipimg5r/).

What's confusing about this is the folder structure is

(root) -> boot -> efi -> EFI -> Boot

-> Microsoft

(To clarify since I made a mistake with the formatting, EFI contains Boot and Microsoft folders).

The "Boot" folder contains a file called "bootx64.efi" which seems to be useless, as the machine usually boots from Windows. I've renamed it with a .old suffix for now, let's see what happens when I boot without it.

The "boot" folder contains a folder called grub as well as some grub files I've seen before (vmlinuz, memtest, system-map and config). I tried running the faulty command while pointing it at this directory (sudo grub-install with the directory set to /tmp/.../efi) and it errored out saying unknown filesystem.

Please advise on how to fix this?

Hey guys, I have a laptop witha monitor connected because the laptop display is broken. And it uses that broken display instead of the connected one. How can I switch it to the other monitor somehow?

Hello,
I have many problems with my OS. So I want to reset it.
Please tell me how to reset KDE neon!

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Since I do screencasts and development, I often need to make a window just the right size. There used to be an option for that, but its gone. Searching the "store" shows there is a plugin that isn't available for Plasma 6. But it is if you go look at the developer's repo:

https://gitlab.com/Worldblender/kwin-scripts

windowgeometryinfo6 works great!

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Right click on a file and send to phone with connect does noting.

Using Connect on the taskbar and manually selecting a file to send to phone also does nothing.

It just stopped working when I wasn't looking.

I was wondering if it is possible for upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 based release of KDE Neon to adopt Btrfs with Grub-Btrfs and some snapshot system. Maybe not as default due to scenarios with unexpected lack of free disk space and related consequences but as installation option. It could potentially mitigate many problems with workflow devastating bugs and other update accidents.

Just a heads up. The tracker on the KDE Neon website for the User edition iso is down. I've checked the testing edition and it seems to use the same tracker so I'm assuming it probably down for all editions.

Just thought I'd post here in case anyone has any contacts for looking at it.

First time trying Neon - wish me luck :)

Hello! I recently installed KDE Neon.

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I was able to select a wifi network while I installed, but now when I left click the wifi network widget, nothing pops up. I couldn't screenshot because that takes focus off the widget, but if I did you would see the below screenshot, except with a blue line above the WiFi icon and the arrow pointing down.

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Right clicking does successfully show me the two checkboxes to Enable WiFi (checked) and Enable Airplane mode (not checked). There's also a link to configure network settings, which I opened.

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As you can see, I can't see other available networks in this list, which is strange. I can manually configure new networks by clicking the plus button, but I have to know the encryption type to do that.

I have confirmed that I have the correct firmware installed (iwlwifi for my Intel Wireless 7260), and that I have plasma-nm installed (which makes sense because otherwise I believe there wouldn't be a widget at all). The network manager also seems to be working.

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The only other weird behavior I'm seeing is the Baloo File Extractor keeps crashing (which, if y'all know how to fix that it'd be great, I saw a bug ticket from 2020 but it says it's resolved). Are those things related? Am I missing a setting somewhere? How do I see a list of available networks?

Now whenever I turn it on KDE neon will seem to be booting up as usual but then I have nothing but a black screen and cursor. Is there anything I can do to get software back?

I have OpenSuSe TW as my primary OS. I am planning to dual boot with KDENeon. My setup includes an SSD on which the OS has been installed and the second OS will also be installed in a new partition. My HDD is has 2 paritions: an XFS parition currently used by OpenSuSe for /home and another NTFS parition containing some files from an old Windows.

My question was that if I plan to dual boot OpenSuSe TW and KDENeon, will KDENeon be able to use the same /home mount point in XFS Format? If not, then is it even possible with some other partition scheme?

So, I'm fairly new to Neon, having used mostly Mint in the past with sprinkling of Manjaro. So far, I'm loving Neon on my work laptop and it's working quite well for me. Actually have a new micro PC coming in today just so I can have a dual boot win11/Neon desktop machine to be able to haul with me.

One thing I'm running into, though, is with full screen apps like a browser. I play a lot of games on GeForce NOW and so ce there's no native Linux client, I just use a browser. Chrome seems to be the one to work the best for it even though I use Firefox for everything else.

Here's the rub, when the game takes the browser window full screen, the panel appears at the bottom whenever I press a keyboard key (like using WASD) and blocks whatever is down there. Now, if I have a second monitor attached and play the game on the other screen without the panel it's fine if course. But this being a laptop, I don't always have a second screen handy. Any ideas or tips to help a girl out?

Thanks in advance!

https://www.mail-archive.com/kde-bugs-dist@kde.org/msg914648.html

This was my issue. Wasted so much time in a critical period. Hope it saves someone else's time.

EDIT: Needed to roll-back to qt6-webengine=6.6.3-0xneon+22.04+jammy+release+build32 and Falkon=24.02.1-0xneon+22.04+jammy+release+build30. After doing that, fulscreen video in Falkon is nice and fluid. Something is messed-up with v6.7.0 - Looks similar to this report on Arch.

Hi there, has anyone noticed degraded xRDP performance after a recent Neon update?

I have a Neon snapshot with Plasma =6.0.3 and QT =6.6.3 and xrdp worked great. I could open Falkon and get fluid fullscreen video in YT with no problems.

After upgrading the packages to current (Plasma =6.0.4, QT =6.7.0) video playback went from fluid to extremely choppy.

Note this setup has no GPU assistnance -- CPU rendering only using llvmpipe.

Thankfully I manged to keep a snapshot so I can destroy/re-create a new Neon instance on the older Plasma/QT version and repeatably deomonstrate this issue after a pkcon update.

Any ideas on how I can chase down the cause of this?

Thanks in advance for any guidance you can offer.

I have an i5-8400 2.80 GHz cpu and 16 gb ram,.

And the system monitor consistently uses at least 60% of that.

How do I fix it?

I just recently purchased a Lenovo P16s with the AMD 7840U and AMD graphics. I love the performance, but I found that scaling the 4k screen is nowhere near the same experience as changing the resolution. My previous system was a Dell XPS 9500 (10th gen cpu) where I could change the resolution to 2560x1600. This P16s laptop has the same option, but the screen turns black when I choose it. At 1920x1200 works, but that's too 'large'. When running xrandr, it shows that 2048x1536 is supported, but it's not an option in the resolution list. Is this something I can override somehow?

e.g. where scaling does not work: I run VirtualBox vms, and if I have my screen set to scaling, the VM is not aware of that scaling and everything is super small, so I have to scale inside the windows VM. When connecting a monitor, then I have to switch that scaling inside the VM back to 100%. quite annoying to keep switching. With the resolution changed, it works fine and no need to change the scaling inside the VM.

any other suggestion?

(edit) -- I noticed now that the 2048x1536 is a completely different ratio.

Install Failed. I have KDE neon User and KDE neon Testing on the same drive. This is the second time the Unstable release has failed to install. The previous version also failed.