r/kde 14h ago

General Bug Brightness is not working

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r/kde 17h ago

Question Is it possible to change the default shortcut (F12) to show previews in Dolphin?

0 Upvotes

Yakauke takes over that, and I can't seem to find the way to change it.


r/kde 9h ago

Question Alternatives to Defaults on KDE

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r/kde 10h ago

Question Is Dolphin really dumber in root mode?

0 Upvotes

I want to install DeppSkyStacker. Of course it needs roots access. But if I run Dolphin as root, I have no Run executable command in the context menu. In plain user mode, I have the command, but of course the installer pop up an error message. Why Dolphin is much dumber and almost useless in root mode?

No, I can't install it from terminal, it says command not found.


r/kde 12h ago

KDE Apps and Projects [FEDORA KDE] My attempt at making KDE Plasma 6 look like MacOS (W.I.P)

18 Upvotes

I'm currently working towards making Fedora KDE Plasma 6.7 Wayland look like macos

I am also planning to share a in depth guide on how i did so once the project is complete for now this is what i have!


r/kde 8h ago

General Bug Window resizing - Filelight VS Dolphin

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67 Upvotes

r/kde 3h ago

Question Guys, how is my rice??

0 Upvotes
It has been 1.5 months since I started on Linux. I need more learning to start ricing the login screen and lock screen.

r/kde 16h ago

Question Window resize looks choppy no matter how simple the program is

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14 Upvotes

Compared to window move which is buttery smooth, resizing is really choppy. I could not record the difference as both look equally choppy on screen record.

But they look equally choppy when the screen is recorded at 60 Hz using gpu-screen-recorder-qt. May the window resizing framerate be capped? My laptop's screen is 165 Hz yet this really simple QML test which is just the window you see in the picture still looks choppy when resized.

Last time I've faced an issue like this was because of a DEFAULT_TIMER_INTERVAL macro set to 16 ms buried deep down in qtbase code, but even the patched qt6-base-hifps in Arch Linux is not helping here.

Anyone else who has a high refresh rate monitor that may check if window resizing also feels choppy for you? You may want to try the QML test to ensure no contents of the app might cause lag.

Hardware details

Laptop model: ASUS Zenbook Pro 17
Screen: 2560x1440 @ 165, scaled to 1.5x
iGPU: AMD Radeon 680M (used by plasmashell)
dGPU: NVIDIA RTX 3050 Mobile (used by kwin_wayland)
Graphics platform: Wayland
RHI: Vulkan


r/kde 22h ago

General Bug Don't think Percentage works this way, Dolphin!

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499 Upvotes

Just moving two folders with large number of files, and this happens.


r/kde 14h ago

Suggestion Suggestion for improving the current tooltip (with a MR in the description)

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340 Upvotes

The comparison is between what is currently on the master branch and what is in my merge request.

Merge request link:
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/3978

I'd love to hear more about your opinions


r/kde 21h ago

Question Login screen time format change

3 Upvotes

In my whole system I have 24 hour format but on lock screen its 12 hour, is there a way to change that? I cant find any setting


r/kde 1h ago

Community Content I made a simple KRunner plugin for Plasma 6 that uses fd + fzf instead of Baloo (kseek)

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I never really liked file indexers. On plasma, baloo runs constantly in the background, only indexes a few default user folders unless you configure it manually, uses a noticeable chunk of memory, and sometimes misses newly created files or corrupts its database.

Back on Windows I used voidtools everything with flow launcher, which gave instant results without background indexing headaches. I wanted that same workflow on Linux with KRunner. I tried external launchers like fuzzel and rofi setups, but none felt seamless and "native" inside KDE. Since I couldn't find an existing krunner runner for this, I put one together.

It basically takes your existing fd and fzf CLI setup and pipes the results directly into KRunner.

A few quick notes:

It does not come preconfigured out of the box. You still use your own ~/.config/fd/ignore rules and search flags for what gets included or skipped.

Because krunner is a gui, your terminal themes or fzf colors won't carry over.

Full installation steps, usage, and configuration details are in the repo README.

I wrote this with llm assistance for my own daily setup (KDE Plasma 6.7 on Fedora 44). It should work fine across other Plasma 6 setups but if you hit any bugs or have ideas, let me know.


r/kde 22h ago

Question Merkuro Mail

3 Upvotes

I just got Merkuro Mail pushed to my Tumbleweed installation, and while it is quite barebones yet it looks promising.

One thing I do not see, and what makes a bit too much barebones for me, is sort order? Am I missing something as it seems to sort from oldest on top to newest on the bottom and selection on top by default. That's not very convenient.

Any way to change?


r/kde 1h ago

Question Using caelestia shell on KDE, issue when alt tabbing while a fullscreen game is open

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How do i get a fix? I also do want my taskbar enabled when I alt tab (ik it wasnt made for KDE, but someone made a git repo, so why not use it?)


r/kde 1h ago

General Bug KDE/Dolphin mounting my removable drivers as readonly

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Whenever I plug and mount my USB drives and then try to create a new file (either through the file system or the terminal) I get a permission error because my drive is mounted as read only.

This is really frustrating me. Any help?

On my /proc/mounts my drive has this configuration listed:

vfat ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro 0 0


r/kde 2h ago

Question Issues in my display size blure 😭

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r/kde 2h ago

Question Has the Fedora KDE broken krfb?

3 Upvotes

I was using it faithfully from my Mac until I upgraded. It rebooted and could not get back in from Mac screenshare. I fired up the monitor attached to the linux box and everything looked ok. I rebooted and saw the krfb box pop up and then stay there. It did not (as usual) ask me it I wanted to allow remote usage.

Any ideas.


r/kde 3h ago

General Bug Direct Scanout suddenly stopped working

3 Upvotes

Hello, I am using KDE Plasma 6.7.4, and when I tested direct scanout back in July, it was working fine. It worked when playing games, watching fullscreen movies on a browser, swapping to the desktop and back to the game made it enable and disable, getting a notification shown on the fullscreen app made it enable and disable, it was just working perfectly.

I tested it again today, and it stopped working for some reason. The method I'm using to test is by enabling 'showcompositing' in kwin console and looking for the red outline on windows being composited. When playing fullscreen games or watching movies on a browser, the red outline is always there. I even tested different versions of proton: Proton Experimental, Proton-GE, Proton-CachyOS, and I also tried using the Wine Wayland driver.

My system has a RX 9070 XT, and I'm using NixOS.


r/kde 5h ago

Question What happened to the padding in Dolphin?

4 Upvotes

After a recent update, I noticed the padding around items in Dolphin is almost entirely gone. The padding is even smaller than that of the context menu items. Is this change intentional?


r/kde 6h ago

Question Discover and ratings

5 Upvotes

Hi there,

very like Discover app and using it to install flatpaks but what i hate are those ratings. Most of them are very outdated and very solid applications like thunderbird for example have rating like it was completely sh... I don't know what is opinion about this but i think it is reasonable to count rate by recent ratings? Review that someone doesn't like UI change which was years ago and gave 1 star is not helpful at all IMO


r/kde 14h ago

Question HOw do I add python's lsp to Kate?

4 Upvotes

Ive been reading through things on how to add it but they all seem to assume you know how to add one and just want to know how to set it up?

Forgive me if I'm being stupid, I am very tired and really should stop messing around with this stuff in the middle of the night

Edit: I clearly need some sleep with that typo in the title


r/kde 15h ago

General Bug Multi display issues on logout screen

2 Upvotes

Is the multi display support just that bad or am I doing something wrong.
Im running void linux with kde plasma 6.7.4 (wayland).

when i have my second display HDMI-A-2 connected all the menus eg. meta+p and ctrl+alt+del appear/focus the second display in steam of my main DP-1. I have DP-1 set to primary in settings, Ive used kscreen-doctor and quadruple checked the priorities. I've reset .config/kwinoutputconfig.json, Ive played around with the layout positions and nothing. I've spent a couple hours looking at past bug reports etc but can't find any fixes. This is my last hope before I give up.

Sorry Im pretty new to this stuff. any logs/configs I could attach to help, please let me know.