After an update I noticed discover was this weird yellow color, I opened settings and noticed it too was yellow, thinking it was some bug, I restarted PC, now everything is yellow. I tried inverting colors but that is something completely different. I'm not even sure what was updated to cause this....
Ugh, no offence to someone who worked on it but sddm is such a failure of display manager. It was only introduced around 10 years ago replacing kdm. It was meant to be simple (duh, thus the name). It has all sorts of issues and is constantly being fixed, just for something super basic like login screen
@kde That's why I love KDE:
It has cute mascot
It is minimalistic
It is beautiful
It has a big amount of features
It has a big amount of good apps
It can tweaked
Yes, systemd has ability to run user services. For every logged in user there is one daemon socket that user can access to run services without ever rising privileges. They can run in background automatically as soon as you log in (at least one user session must be opened) or alternatively you can enable lingering for your account that assures it’s always up, so your user services can start on boot without you even logging in. It gets units from couple of directories - system packages can install user services in /usr/lib/systemd, custom global user services can go to /usr/local/lib/systemd for any individual user, theres also /etc/systemd and ~/.config/systemd for unit files of particular user.
The Amarok Development Squad is happy to announce the immediate availability of Amarok 3.0 "Castaway"! The new 3.0 is the first stable Qt5/KDE Frameworks 5 based version of Amarok, and first stable release since 2018, when the final Qt4 based version 2.
Ah memories… So much music I fell in love with using this player. I used it regularly throughout high school time and now it’s like 12 years ago, I feel old.
David, Nate, Josh, Marco, Carl, and Niccolò are here ready to answer all your questions on Plasma (all versions), Gear, Frameworks, Wayland (and how it affects KDE’s software), and everything in between....
Are there any big things that you couldn’t squeeze in time for the mega release, but can’t wait to have them implemented in Plasma 6.1 later this year?
Plasma developer David Edmundson demonstrates how a desktop using Wayland, Qt6 and KWin can recover from a catastrophic crash as if nothing had happened.
Hi, sorry if this isn't the right place for this question. I've been using Linux Mint Cinnamon for about 9 months now and have also been experimenting with an Ubuntu GNOME Wayland session for the past month or so. I don't really like distro-hopping, but using X11 isn't cutting it for me. After giving GNOME an honest shot, I...
I run Arch for 10+ years, currently on both of my computers that are fairly different and the maintenance for me is minimal if any. The opinion thay aRcH iS uNStaBLe comes from people who can’t read Wiki carefully enough to set it up properly. Updates that broke something on its own and not as a result of users’ mistake are really a rare thing. I heard of something like that maybe twice during the years and even then it didn’t affect me.
Different people have different opinions, but trust me - if you keep your setup simple (and it’s possible to have all the goods you need without much complexity), it can be really robust. In fact, I had much worse time trying to debug Debian-based distros, as they’re much more complex and hard to understand. If you need additional security for your install if it’s critical, consider setting up snapshots.
Have you filled a bug/feature request for this or found existing one to make sure someone can can address that? The feature seems obvoius fir you, but apparently it’s not so important for vast majority of users. For one I never used it and don’t feel like doing so.
For now, you can work around it by binding a keyboard shortcut for touchpad toggling.
Hello there. I'm a beginner so keep that in mind. I have an old laptop (something like 10 yo). It has an HDD, 4 gigs of DDR3, an i3 4th gen 1.7 GHz and an NVidia Geforce 710M (Windows Game Ready Driver 391.35 WHQL which I think doesn't support Wayland). It also has CSM BIOS so yeah. It has the option of UEFI but the GeForce (I...
On the old NVIDIA driver, if you’re brave, they’re still available and on Arch(-based) pretty easy to install. I used some old desktop GeForce 6xx with it last time around 2020 and it worked for basic stuff, like desktop compositing, OpenGL games or even some WineD3D. Don’t expect it to run anything somehow modern. And yes, with the driver you’re limited to X11 session.
If you also have iGPU and it’s switchable, the only option to somehow achieve offloading (switching the graphics dynamically) would be through unofficial methods like Bumblebee.
Also, graphics that old should have some support in the open source Nouveau driver, that will probably be loaded by default on most distros. If I’d be stuck with such chip, that would be my first thing to check if it isn’t enough for my planned use-cases.
[Solved]What happened to my background/desktop? ( lemmy.world )
After an update I noticed discover was this weird yellow color, I opened settings and noticed it too was yellow, thinking it was some bug, I restarted PC, now everything is yellow. I tried inverting colors but that is something completely different. I'm not even sure what was updated to cause this....
My Panel
I really like to have my panel at the left side of the Screen #showyourdesktop...
Plasma 6.1 Beta Review, Its Perfect. ( www.youtube.com )
Simple theme switching systemd-timer ( gitlab.com )
I made a simple script and timer for a friend to automatically switch between light and dark theme on Plasma. In case anybody needs this.
Amarok 3.0 "Castaway" released! ( blogs.kde.org )
The Amarok Development Squad is happy to announce the immediate availability of Amarok 3.0 "Castaway"! The new 3.0 is the first stable Qt5/KDE Frameworks 5 based version of Amarok, and first stable release since 2018, when the final Qt4 based version 2.
Will the upgrade to KDE 6 be automatic?
I feel stupid for asking this. I always did fresh installs in the past but now I have an install that I’ve customized and use as a daily driver....
AUA: We are the Plasma dev team. Ask Us Anything about Plasma 6, gear 24.02, Frameworks 6 and everything else in the upcoming Megarelease.
David, Nate, Josh, Marco, Carl, and Niccolò are here ready to answer all your questions on Plasma (all versions), Gear, Frameworks, Wayland (and how it affects KDE’s software), and everything in between....
Looking to switch distros ( kbin.social )
Hi, sorry if this isn't the right place for this question. I've been using Linux Mint Cinnamon for about 9 months now and have also been experimenting with an Ubuntu GNOME Wayland session for the past month or so. I don't really like distro-hopping, but using X11 isn't cutting it for me. After giving GNOME an honest shot, I...
PSA: Plasma Wayland on laptop could still be a pain to use ( bugs.kde.org )
I thought it would be great to spread awareness about this issue, hence I’m sharing it with you here....
Alright, you know what? I'll be switching. ( kbin.social )
Hello there. I'm a beginner so keep that in mind. I have an old laptop (something like 10 yo). It has an HDD, 4 gigs of DDR3, an i3 4th gen 1.7 GHz and an NVidia Geforce 710M (Windows Game Ready Driver 391.35 WHQL which I think doesn't support Wayland). It also has CSM BIOS so yeah. It has the option of UEFI but the GeForce (I...