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Plasma 6 Bugs

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I have two laptops, I'll call them laptop 1 and laptop 2.

Laptop 1 is my gaming laptop, and laptop 2 is a very low-spec one that I use as a jellyfin server. Here's the neofetch result for both of them:

Laptop 1

Laptop 2

The problem

On both of them, I copied a 5GB folder from the laptop to my 3.0 usb flash drive, I used this rsync command on each:

rsync -a --progress folder_path destination_folder_path

Laptop Average transfer speed
Laptop 1 9MB/s
Laptop 2 45MB/s

How is this possible? The Laptop 1 is way superior than laptop 2. The laptop 1 has an nvme SSD while laptop 2 has an old 320GB HDD, yet the transfer speed difference is insane.

Does KDE affect the folder copying somehow? If I copy a file on the same SSD on laptop 1, the speed reaches more than 400MB/s.

What is going on here?

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KDE urges the European Commission restore #funding for free software through Next Generation Internet (NGI).

Read the open letter here:

https://kde.org/announcements/2024_ngi_openletter/

#freesoftware #EU

@kde@lemmy.kde.social
@EUCommission
@NGICommons

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I am not a KDE dev, but interested in that topic.

To partiticipate you can sign up in the forum, and maybe stay a bit and help other users ;)

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I have no idea why Mozilla doesnt show this theme.

I use Breeze Dark, as I am a simple guy :)

But the "Breeze Dark" Theme on AMO (firefox insider name for addons.mozilla.org :D) is just wrong?

So I created my own one, with the Addon "Firefox Color" and the Plasma Color-Picker.

Picture of my Desktop

Enjoy!

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cross-posted from: https://floss.social/users/akademy/statuses/112800881921935569

The #Akademy2024 schedule is here!
Find out all about KDE's goals, what's new in the latest wave of desktop and mobile applications, and how KDE Eco is saving the environment, backends, frontends, and KDE for work, life and fun.
https://akademy.kde.org/2024/program/

@akademy@lemmy.kde.social

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I love Breeze icons but every now and then I would like to change, needless to say that most of the sets have their default colors and do not respect the Plasma user's choice of accent.

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There is a Fediverse-wide canvas event at canvas.fediverse.events (currently temporarily down with no ETA). Is the KDE community participating?

I redrew this Kiki icon as pixel art and I can, and probably will, place this image myself, as it's just 282 non-white pixels; I just want to know if anyone is going to draw the KDE logo, Konqi or other imagery so we can all be in one area.

1:1 image that can be used as a template:

If you have any KDE art you'd like to add, including better versions of Kiki, feel free to post them! I can adjust the palette into this year's 34-color one or even redraw high-res images as pixel art for you.

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No post this week.

See you next week for what will probably be an extra large installment!

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
#KDE #Plasma #KDEPlasma #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource

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Does anybody know a program that does this?

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Every time I tried to enable the device auto mount on my second hard drive, it never worked. I always had to manually mount it through KDE's GUI whenever I wanted to access it's content.

I later researched and found out that I could edit the /etc/fstab file with my second hard drive's UUID, which caused it to always mount on startup as I wanted.

So my question is, why doesn't KDE auto mount also replicate this process of editing the /etc/fstab?

The KDE auto mount never worked on plasma 6, I believe it's something related to wayland (even though I don't understand how they could be related).

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The second maintenance release of the 24.05 series is out.

https://kdenlive.org/en/2024/07/kdenlive-24-05-2-released/

#kdenlive #videoediting

@kde

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Is it possible to configure a system-wide KDE Plasma wallpaper?

With GNOME you can easily do this by creating a keyfile: https://help.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/dconf-keyfiles.html.en

Is there something similar in KDE? I've looked at the Kiosk documentation, but didn't find anything about setting a system-wide default background (like in an enterprise deployment).

@kde

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Hello everybody! I was thinking of switching from GNOME to KDE Plasma on my laptop. The main things keeping me from switching are

  • Touchpad Gestures
  • Dynamic Workspaces

Since I have a pretty beefy machine, dynamic workspaces are more an optional than anything but if there's something unnegotiable to me, especially for a laptop experience, is the touchpad experience which must me at least viable. So what has been your experience? Please I need your opinion

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I've seen some articles talking about some tweaks in Arch with older versions of KDE to prevent audio crackling and snapping, but I cant seem to find the relevant config files or locations, and was hoping someone had current info for KDE 6.1 with this issue. Tried both on board audio with a Realtek chip and a SBZ card, and similar issue happens so I assume I need to change some other setting to disable the system sleeping or some such.

Thank you.

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Which Akademy is your favorite? Tell us in the comments!

P.S. Don’t forget to register for #Akademy2024: https://akademy.kde.org/2024/register/

@kde

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Mail, calendars, notes, tasks, travel... Find out what developers of KDE's personal information management suite of apps have been up to.

Get the breakdown of all the new features, and how everything has been made more reliable, faster and better.

https://kontact.kde.org/blog/2024/2024-07-01-kde-pim-may-june-2024/

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

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I am just a regular Linux user with a bit of additional interest in customizing. I can install things from the store, change settings in the GUI comfortably etc.

Occassionally there are things I am looking for are not available already but could be with few simple tweaks. For eg. right now I am looking for an analog clock widget different from the standard one already available. I need to reduce its size and/or change its background.

I believe this could be done by changing the clock source and building a new clock.

Currently I am not knowledgeable enough to do that and also with insufficient free time to learn everything. I would try if there is a standard pre-built ISO configured to this need with all tools pre-installed.

Is there such an option available?

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