Hello.

I wanted to try to run Wayland + KDE 6 plasma. I've created the following tutorial that unfortunately has some errors inside,since the project does not work.

The steps that I have taken are the following :

1 - added user to the wheel and video groups :

sudo pw groupmod wheel video -m marietto

2 - sysrc

sudo sysrc -f /etc/rc.conf kld_list+="nvidia-modeset nvidia-drm linux linux64 i915kms"

3 - installed the following packages :

==> pkg install --glob "plasma6-" ==> pkg install --glob "kf6-" ==> pkg install plasma-wayland-protocols plasma6-xdg-desktop-portal-kde kf6-breeze-icons-6 kde6-devel

4- removed these packages :

pkg remove xdg-desktop-portal-wlr wlrobs grim slurp wlr-which-key wayland-protocols wayfire wf-shell wayfire-plugins-extra

5- setup locales :

nano /etc/login.conf

italian|Italian Users Accounts:
:charset=UTF-8:
:lang=it_IT.UTF-8:
:tc=default

cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf

pw usermod marietto -L italian

nano /etc/profile

export LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 export MM_CHARSET=UTF-8

nano /etc/csh.login

setenv LANG it_IT.UTF-8 setenv MM_CHARSET UTF-8

6 - created a startup script called start-kde6

#!/bin/bash

export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config" export XDG_CACHE_HOME="$HOME/.cache" export XDG_DATA_HOME="$HOME/.local/share" export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/var/run/user/id -u"

exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session ck-launch-session startplasma-wayland

7. made it executable :

chmod +x start-kde6

8. rebooted the machine and logged in as normal user and ran the startup script :

./start-kde6

I see a lot of errors and it didn't work :

dbus[4084]: Unable to set up transient service directory: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR "/var/run/user/1001" not available: No such file or directory org.kde.startup: not a reply org.freedesktop.locale1 QDBusMessage(type=Error, service="", error name="org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown", error message="The name org.freedesktop.locale1 was not provided by any .service files", signature="s", contents=("The name org.freedesktop.locale1 was not provided by any .service files") )

Detected locale "C" with character encoding "US-ASCII", which is not UTF-8. Qt depends on a UTF-8 locale, and has switched to "C.UTF-8" instead. If this causes problems, reconfigure your locale. See the locale(1) manual for more information.

No backend specified, automatically choosing drm

kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:39:34: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:40:29: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:41:29: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:42:29: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:43:29: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:44:27: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:45:27: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:46:27: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:47:27: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:48:29: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:49:29: string literal is not a valid UTF-8 string kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:49:29: too many errors

kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose:49:29: failed to parse file Unable to determine system time zone: please check your system configuration. kwin_screencast: Failed to connect PipeWire context

Detected locale "C" with character encoding "US-ASCII", which is not UTF-8. Qt depends on a UTF-8 locale, and has switched to "C.UTF-8" instead. If this causes problems, reconfigure your locale. See the locale(1) manual for more information.

No backend specified, automatically choosing drm

Unable to determine system time zone: please check your system configuration. kwin_screencast: Failed to connect PipeWire context org.kde.startup: "kdeinit5_shutdown" QList() exited with code 255 startplasma-wayland: Shutting down... startplasmacompositor: Shutting down... startplasmacompositor: Done.

qt.qpa.wayland: "wl-shell" is a deprecated shell extension, prefer using "xdg-shell" if supported by the compositor by setting the environment variable QT_WAYLAND_SHELL_INTEGRATION

qt.qpa.wayland: "wl-shell" is a deprecated shell extension, prefer using "xdg-shell" if supported by the compositor by setting the environment variable QT_WAYLAND_SHELL_INTEGRATION

qt.qpa.wayland: Loading shell integration failed. qt.qpa.wayland: Attempted to load the following shells QList("xdg-shell", "wl-shell", "ivi-shell", "qt-shell") qt.qpa.wayland: Loading shell integration failed. qt.qpa.wayland: Attempted to load the following shells QList("xdg-shell", "wl-shell", "ivi-shell", "qt-shell") qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in "" even though it was found. qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in "" even though it was found. qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display :0 qt.qpa.plugin: From 6.5.0, xcb-cursor0 or libxcb-cursor0 is needed to load the Qt xcb platform plugin. qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found. This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: minimal, offscreen, vkkhrdisplay, vnc, xcb, wayland, wayland-egl.

qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display :0 qt.qpa.plugin: From 6.5.0, xcb-cursor0 or libxcb-cursor0 is needed to load the Qt xcb platform plugin. qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found. This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: minimal, offscreen, vkkhrdisplay, vnc, xcb, wayland, wayland-egl.

Claude.ai tells me that this exists but I don't see it on Kubuntu 18.04 or 22.04.

A checkbox or toggle switch labeled "Different widgets for each desktop" or "Separate widget sets for each desktop"

Is this real and what do I have to do to get to it?

x-y problem:

What I really want is a "sub-desktop" like a subfolder of a folder, but looking like a desktop - preferably without switching activities or opening an actual folder in Dolphin.

My problem is that with cryptocurrencies, I have icons for price URLs, icons for staking URLs, and icons for wallets. They're conceptually all part of one thing I'm doing, but there are too many to fit comfortably on one desktop.

And, I get them all arranged in groups on the screen exactly the way I want them and then I accidentally change resolution on an external monitor... and KDE rearranges them all in alphabetical order making the desktop almost useless.

At least if I could break them up into groups, it would be easier to recover from the above disaster.

Maybe having a bunch of activities would do it. I'm not sure how to approach this.

I am doing some Bitcoin calculations where I enter integer values (Satoshis) and then need to multiply them by 10**-8 to get the value in Bitcoins, e.g. to calculate price in US dollars.

I don't see how to do this other than by saving 0.00000001 in my clipboard.

I sort of got positive exponents to work, but the exponent functionality disappears as soon as I type a minus sign for the exponent for 10**-8 because it gets interpreted as a subtraction operator instead of as a unary sign.

I can just divide by 10**8 which works, but it's not quite as intuitive for me.

Is there a better way to do this?

Is this a bug?

I'm using Kcalc 23.04.3 in a flatpak on Kubuntu 22.04.

I have a plain text journal/log that I write and edit in Kate. This contains a number of floating point numbers and I often copy and paste them into Kcalc or LibreOffice Calc.

I would like to be able to double click on one of them and have it all selected so I can copy it into the clipboard. This does not work because it only selects the digits on one side of the decimal or the other which forces me to use the mouse to select the whole number - which is slower and more work for me.

When I'm doing this, I'm doing it a lot, so speed makes a difference to me.

Is there a way to temporarily tell Kate that the period/decimal is a word character so the double click will work?

Some of my numbers also have commas in them as thousands separators for readability, so including the comma as a word character would be nice as well.

This behavior would not be good as a permanent setting unless I could restrict it to something like a particular Kate profile... because I need the normal behavior the rest of the time.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

So....I updated my Manjaro to Plasma 6. Any chance that Minimal Menu (or something similar) exists?

I was not happy to find it gone. It's been a part of my system for so long that I honestly just forgot it wasn't default.

Now it doesn't even show up in the widget search and I'm honestly not sure I can live without it, largely because I can choose to centre it in the display on launch rather than having to choose either a) full-screen or b) right above the icon.

I can't even describe how upsetting it was to reboot after the update....

Part of the KDE login process on Kubuntu 22.04 shows me a gear spinner for a very short while. What does that signify? It still takes a while after it disappears before anything else happens.

Its also a sickness, after tidying my room and thinking I was finished, I had the strong urge to create a smooth Workflow where I also can't distract myself that easily.

I should have continued my work instead, that's why I said its a sickness. You get distracted by playing with your Desktop. But this wasn't that bad, it will stay forever.

I allowed myself to work on coding or school stuff on my first Virtual Desktop. Gaming on my second (and I use save session together with W window rules to make Steam spawn only on that Virtual Desktop). Additionally I allow Discord and Waterfox to stay on both Workspace and Gaming Space for chat/voice and music. Additionally I use often times my 3D Printer and thought, why not creating a Virtual Desktop for it so I can also easily create Art in Blender or also use Krita inside that Workspace besides accessing Octoprint. This will be my artistic space then. Misc is a Virtual Desktop where I use Signal Desktop and Syncthing, or manage System Settings whenever I feel I don't wan't to do it on any other Virtual Desktop.

I love KDE!

I've just upgraded to Plasma 6 on EndeavourOS and X11 works, but booting on Wayland via SDDM gives me a blank screen. The display enters power saving mode and switching to a TTY doesn't wake it up.

Anyone else having this problem, or with a workaround suggestion?

NVIDIA Driver 550.54.14-4
Operating System: EndeavourOS 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.0.0
Qt Version: 6.6.2
Kernel Version: 6.7.8-arch1-1 (64-bit)

When can I expect to be able to install Debian on a device (let's say, I'd use the "testing" branch) and have the choice to use KDE Plasma 6 as UI?

Can I expect this to happen during the next months?

Just curious...

PS: I'm not interested in other distributions, just the raw Debian with Plasma 6...

This one looks pretty damn good if you are into the look Windows 7 had.

Hello!

Do you hate the watermark preview banner?

Add the text HideDesktopPreviewBanner=true just after [General] in the file ~/.config/kdeglobals. You will have something as the following:

[General]
HideDesktopPreviewBanner=true

Better for OLEDs displays, stylish, auto-suspend all-blacks displays, etc.

Src: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/b15d9f41f7f41210b1dd5a78dc1b1894bd40c3dd#16f843a94440a858a2387e36472454ab5685e179_193_196

is there a shortcut for dismissing notifications in KDE? They go away on their own but a shortcut would be great

Thank you in advance :)

This may help some folks who want to use Okular but also have their PDF files reopen between restarts. You can call saveokular.sh from cron and some other tricks so this is all seamless:

$ cat /usr/local/bin/openokular.sh

#!/bin/bash

Check if the file with paths exists

if [ ! -f ~/.okular_open_files.txt ]; then

echo "No saved PDF paths found."

exit 1

fi

Open PDFs in Okular

echo $1 >> ~/.okular_open_files.txt

sed -i '/^$/d' ~/.okular_open_files.txt

cat ~/.okular_open_files.txt | xargs -d '\n' /usr/bin/orig_okular &

$ cat /usr/local/bin/saveokular.sh

#!/bin/bash

if pid=$(ps -C orig_okular -o pid= | sed -e 's/\s//g') && [[ -n $pid ]]; then

ls -l /proc/"$pid"/fd | grep '.pdf' | awk -F ' -> ' '{print $2}' > ~/.okular_open_files.txt

fi

For the Slideshow option on Desktop Settings / Wallpaper, and the user is using the Random order and a new file appears in one of the wallpaper folders, make that image the next one to show.

Probably the big news is that we released the Plasma 6 Alpha today! What does that mean? Well, go read this blog post by David Edmundson to find out! In a nutshell, you should try out the Plasma 6 Alpha out using one of these distros (or by building it yourself using kdesrc-build) if you’re an adventurous person who has a backup and wants to help make the final release better by reporting bugs or even fixing them. It really does help!

They look like a mix of Oxygen and Breeze. And look absolutely beautiful!

Much better than the current Breeze icons which look overly simple and flat.

This is the type of visual overhaul I was talking about.

These icons coupled with a great default wallpaper will make Plasma 6 look awesome!

Thanks to the great work from Ken Vermette who initially created the new icon set, and Niccolò Venerandi, who took over and improved it!

Hello,

I'm trying to get kwin-wayland to use just a part of my monitor, with X11 I did it with xrandr, but I'm not sure how to best do that with Wayland.

I have a messed up monitor and using only the bottom right corner makes it more acceptable, but for that I need no pixel lit on the top left corner.

Thanks for any hint!

"Chill your Champagne bottles – it’s official: the KDE Plasma 6.0 + KDE Frameworks 6.0 + KDE Gear 24.02 Mega Release™ that will take KDE software to the next level is going to happen on 28th February 2024! Let’s have a look at what I’ve been up to in the past two months, again working mostly on either Qt itself or dealing with its behavior changes on the application side."