Hello! I would like to upgrade from 24.04 to 24.10 but I'm having trouble. I've been waiting for an "upgrade now" notification to pop up but it looks like I'm gonna have to do it myself.

I'm following the instruction and I opened up the Discover software center but I can't find the 'Software Sources' button anywhere! So I can't select/find the 'normal releases' option. Anyone know where they hide that setting?

Hey, does anyone know of a way to configure webapps (like Gmail etc) so that they receive notification badges once you have new mail etc ?

I'm not really getting good performance by having my install being run through a VM in proxmox (desktop and browsing is great, but i don't get good framerates in games), so i was hoping i could set up a virtual machine manager and pass through my 2nd gpu to it, so kubuntu runs on bare metal

however, the GPU is in the same IOMMU group as some other devices i can't pass through with it, and in proxmox, i just have the ACS override enabled, and everything works great, however this feature isn't a part of the standard linux kernel, and when i'm trying to build the kernel, i'm met with errors, and i don't get the required files to install it, and use it.

It's my first time trying to do something like this, so i might be completely missing something obvious, i followed the steps here: https://github.com/benbaker76/linux-acs-override

When the building portion ends, i have nowhere to go since the .deb files aren't generated, i've tried multiple times.

Anyone got some insight on this? 90% of guides i found online use older kernels that are available pre-patched on https://queuecumber.gitlab.io/linux-acs-override/, but i would prefer if i could use a newer kernel to avoid issues with drivers in the future, also, even the kernel in the ben bakers repo is older than the one kubuntu currently uses, so i'm already skeptical about using it

Edit: ended up using the xanmod kernel that has this patch already applied, i just couldn't get the other options to work

I just want to say is the best help besides here on Reddit. Honestly, if it weren't for the hours a day I spend getting help and workarounds for issues for my 24.04 LTS release I would have left Linux last month. I've been a Windows user all my life (in my 40's now) and it came the time where I decided to stop being part of the system that is controlled by big private tech and since then I've been loving it.

So again, ChatGPT4o is a beginners best friend. I highly recommend using it.

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So I love Kubuntu but I had a weird situation where my PC went to sleep and it killed the Ethernet connection. Restarting, unplugging it and plugging it back in, etc. Didn't work. I have now installed Ubuntu and haven't been able to replicate the issue

Anyone else experience this?

I recently stumbled across Kubuntu Focus and wanted to see if anyone is using it or even knows about it as it's seem pretty hidden and tucked away. I didn't even know that Kubuntu had it's own hardware.

I was troubleshooting an issue with my Dell precision 5680 and found this after going way down into the rabbit hole.

My precision has an issue with the Intel MIPI camera driver and it seems like there is no driver for 24.04. After digging for a while for a solution I found on a reddit thread from a few years back about just using supported and tested kubuntu hardware.

The Ir16 Gen2 really caught my eye. It seems like a pretty well designed laptop with a solid port selection. I believe the chassis is made by clevo which I've loved in the past. Only issue is I can't find any reviews really on it. Anyone using their laptops at all?

I'm having a weird issue with my keyboard on Kubuntu 24.04.1 on an Alienware m15 R7 laptop. Basically, if I press Backspace in the flow of natural typing the character disappears for a split-second and then reappears. I need to press Backspace twice to actually delete the character. (In a browser the behavior is worse: even if I stop typing for a bit, I need to double-press Backspace to delete a character.)

I can't find another account of this specific issue online. Doesn't seem to be related to deadkeys. This is happening with the built-in keyboard using the "Generic 104-key PC" layout.

Would be grateful for any ideas.

I have spent the last TWO DAYS and 8 HOURS of my time trying to install Windows on my old ideapad for my cousin. I swear to god nothing works and Windows doesn't detect the SSD within the laptop. Of course I try to install Kubuntu and it just automatically works; trying to convince him to stick with it.

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Which of these snaps can I delete permanently?

After installing Kubuntu on my machine I ran into the problem of getting a black screen after the boot/bios screen. The last thing I did before rebooting was sudo ubuntu-drivers install.
However, starting opening the grub menu using the SHIFT or ESC key does not work for me.

From what I could find I cannot change any settings that would allow me to enter the grub mode without being able to access my OS, hence I am stuck in a loop.

Is there any way to fix this? If not, how would I recover what data I have lying on my desktop?

I am using an ASUS 787-C motherboard btw.

I am thankful for any tips.

Why?

So, i tried to download something with discover but i didn't have enough space, looks like it still ate my storage, and i was wondering where I can delete it

Hello, I've recently switched from Linux Mint and am having a bit of drama... I've got the "Update available for NordVPN. Close the application to update now. It will update automatically in 13 days." Does anyone know how to close the application? Also is there a way to get Nord and firefox to update through the Discover app or to use a different update manager? Cheers!

I'm new to Linux (longtime Windows and MacOS user) and decided to go Kubuntu 24.10 on my ThinkPad Z16 Gen 1 and i was wondering if there was any way to adjust trackpad haptic feedback? I know there was a slider in windows 11 settings but i'm failing to find it in KDE system settings. Any tips would be appreciated!

I haven't used kubuntu in a while so please bear with me even if the question is noobish. Back in the days, the installer used to have an option to install third party softwares such as codes. Unfortunately I didn't see that option (only three third party packages such as matrix were listed). Do I need to do anything post installation to get extra third party softwares, codecs and fonts?

I have looked up what I need to do, however I can't find any solutions but arch stuff. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Any help would be appreciated.

Let me know if you more info. Thanks

Installation of /tmp/FWwlnS-Vivid-Dark-Global-6.tar.gz failed: Could not install dependency: 'kns://window-decorations.knsrc/api.kde-look.org/2133854'

I am experiencing a weird error. I am not sure how to address.

I just upgraded my desktop from Kubuntu 22.10 to 24.10. Since then when my system boots unattended, after showing the "kubuntu" screen for a while the screen goes blank, that's it. I have to reboot again.

But if I happen to be moving my mouse or hitting my screen while its booting then it would finish and load the desktop as usual.

This is a weird error that I am not sure how to proceed from here.

Hi, i dont know if this is the right place to ask this. When i try to connect from my W10 to the fresh Kubuntu 24.10, i get that window where u have to log in and after entering my data the window closes itself.

SOLVED

The mirror I was using probably had issues syncing, switched back to ubuntu's official and now I'm upgrading plasma to 6.1

OG:

So, I upgraded my laptop and got plasma 6.1. loved it, the upgraded my desktop the same way and it still is rummimg plasma 5... Nothing went wrong and I cant find anything online...

My specs:

Operating System: Kubuntu 24.10

KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.11

KDE Frameworks Version: 5.116.0

Qt Version: 5.15.13

Kernel Version: 6.8.0-35-generic (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: X11

Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 5600 6-Core Processor

Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM

Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2

Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

Product Name: B450M DS3H

I have this old Elitebook 2560p which original Finnish keyboard was broken. I managed to obtain US keyboard for 0,93€.

I still want to use the Finnish layout, since all the other keyboards I use are Finnish and keystrokes come semiautomatic from the muscle memory and I really need the scandics Ä and Ö

Just one thing is bugging me.
In Finnish layout greater than and lesser than are next to left shift which is smaller key. Seem like in the layout with this US keyboard they could be brought up using 8 and 9 somehow.
What combination I need.
Or is there a way to customize just those two keys?
Those are used so rarely, it does not matter where I can provoke them up.

Kubuntu 24.04 and Plasma 5.27.11

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I tried all ctrl + alt + Fx but nothing change

I have this weirdly functioning icon problem.
I have Kubuntu 24.04 and Plasma 5.27.11

I want to have completely black and white desktop. Don't get fooled by the grey shades. They are for now. All will be black and white.
But the Firefox icon changes automagically to colored and it opens new icon on panel when opened.
This happens only with the Ubuntu derivatives and maybe it has something to do with snap package.
I sometimes can fix it in a way the icon is white and it opens on panel on it's respective place.
I don't know what triggers this behavior. Maybe when FF is updated it fuck this up.

How can this be fixed permanently.

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Hi guys I'm a completly new user of Kubuntu and linux in general and I'm looking for a fast tutorial on how to install and setup vs code for C

Hello, all. First time in this sub because I’m having a minor issue, but the Internet has failed me so far.

I want a sound to play when I hit Caps Lock or Num Lock, either a beep or a system sound. Here are the steps I’ve tried:

• I went to System Settings > Accessibility > Modifier Keys, then check “Ring system bell when locking keys are toggled”. It didn’t work.
• Based on an unrelated tip on AskUbuntu, I checked “Show notification when modifier or locking keys are used”. It didn’t work.
• I clicked the “Configure Notifications” button, selected “A lock key has been activated” and “… deactivated”, and below checked “play a sound” (and tested the sound to ensure it was audible). It didn’t work.
• In the same dialog, I chose a different sound (/usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/dialog-information.oga) to make sure the file actually exists. It does, and it plays when I use the keyboard to increase or decrease the volume. However it didn’t work for the CapsLock key.
• In the same dialog, I checked “Show a message in a popup” and “Speech” just for fun, and those didn’t work either.

Any ideas? Is this a bug or am I missing something? It’s not earth-shattering, but it’s a minor annoyance I would like to solve. Thanks.

System:

Kubuntu 24.04, KDE Plasma v. 5.27.11, kernel 6.8.0-41-generic;
Acer Aspire Laptop, dual boot with W11

Should I install kubuntu 24.04 or 24.10? Ideally I prefer to stay with LTS version but I heard that plasma 6 comes with lots of improvement.

Also kubuntu minimal used to come with no snaps. Is it still the case for 24.04 and 24.10? Will everything work with minimal install? Thank you

HELP! Running Kubuntu 22.04 LTS, and the latest compatible versions of Brave and Firefox browsers. The problem is that YouTubeTV and YouTube videos will often refuse to play, sitting at the beginning of the video with the spinning busy wheel until it times out. In the system logs, I get the following errors:

[9803:9803:1123/030351.576808:ERROR:interface_endpoint_client.cc(725)] Message 0 rejected by interface blink.mojom.WidgetHost
[9803:9825:1123/030353.169593:ERROR:registration_request.cc(291)] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT
[9803:9825:1123/030413.426210:ERROR:registration_request.cc(291)] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT
[9803:9825:1123/030504.877124:ERROR:registration_request.cc(291)] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT
[9803:9825:1123/030655.896754:ERROR:registration_request.cc(291)] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT
[9803:9803:1123/030702.604943:ERROR:CONSOLE(2446)] "[Settings] Appearance Page cannot find use default theme button template", source: chrome://settings/settings
.js (2446)

The problem started a few days ago and got progressively worse until I could not view any videos on YouTubeTV AT ALL until I tried running brave-browser from the command line, which will let me watch one program. I have Brave set to open to the last opened page, so what I have to do is navigate to the second program I want to watch, watch for the spinning wheel, close the browser then reopen it and the video will play. This is driving me crazy and is affecting YouTubeTV the most, YouTube is also greatly affected, as is Plex streaming service. The symptoms are the same with Brave and Firefox, so I know the problem is system-level issue. I have been Googling my butt off trying to find something helpful to try, but nothing has made any difference so far. Oh, and the update to 24.04LTS does not work for me, either, errors out at the computing changes phase on both of my machines. I have tried reverting to previous versions of Brave, purging and reinstalling brave, rebooting, resetting dbus and rebooting. All yielded no change.

I think this is because I have two monitors....

My primary display (a Samsung Odyssey G7) takes a split second longer to "wake up" vs my secondary monitor.

When this happens, I see the entire desktop shift to the second monitor briefly, with the desktop icons ALL scrambled, then once the Samsung wakes up, it goes back to the first display....and stays scrambled.

This happens EVERY time the monitors wake up from sleep.

I cannot customize my desktop at all. Very frustrating that what feels like basic functionality and a common case is broken...unless somebody knows of a workaround??

Hello,

It's been two weeks since the system has been updated every day, especially the Nvidia driver. Then file changes etc.

Does it happen to you too?