#w2k26 #OpenBSD #KDE progress. Welcome to a new login manager.

Thanks to @tsdgeos for the amigurumi KDE dragons! Here they are along with the Konqi plushie, for comparison:

#kde #konqi #konqiplushie

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Konqi plushie with a green amigurumi KDE dragon between the arms and an orange amigurumi KDE dragon on top of it.

Should you care about about Brotli compression? According to the folks at the PDF Association, you should, as it improves compression ratios in PDFs up to 60%* of what zlib can do—zlib being the current compression algorithm.

Brotli compression is on its way to Poppler. It will be available for #Okular, #Evince #Papers and #KDE and #GNOME in general.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/merge_requests/2331

* Sometimes:
https://pdfa.org/brotli-compression-coming-to-pdf/

#Linux Weekly Roundup for September 13th, 2026: #Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS, #NVIDIA 615, #KDE Plasma 6.7.5, #Debian 13.7, #COSMIC 1.8, #GIMP 3.2.6, #Calamares 3.4.3, KDE Frameworks 6.30, MocaccinoOS 26.09, KDE Plasma 6.8 beta, Agama 24, KaOS Linux 2026.09, #DietPi 10.7, #Shotwell 0.33, Shelly 3.1.4, OpenSSL 4.1, KDE Gear 26.08.1, new #LinuxMint apps, and more https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-september-13th-2026

#FOSS #OpenSource #GNU

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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup - September 13th, 2026

Installing Void Linux on ZFS with Hibernation Support

Updated, and now supporting minimal, KDE Plasma, Gnome and XFCE

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/12/22/void-linux-zfs-hibernation-guide/

#Linux #Desktop #OwnYourData #Void #VoidLinux #KDE #Plasma #Gnome #XFCE #Xorg #Wayland #GNULinux

Trying FreeBSD as a Linux user – Kenvexity – YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdUwCQttWKM&t=25s

I enjoyed this video. Very down-to-earth.

Some key points at <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1ubn8mp/trying_freebsd_as_a_linux_user_kenvexity/>.

#FreeBSD #KDE #Plasma #Xorg #TWM #graphics #hardware #Firefox #Linuxulator #Steam

I have bit of a problem with getting SDDM to start a Plasma session under Wayland on FreeBSD 15.1.

I've installed KDE Plasma using "kde-installer-dialogs" from alfix (link below). After rebooting, the SDDM greeter shows up as expected, but entering my credentials just returns me to the greeter.

Disabling SDDM, and manually starting a session with "% exec dbus-launch ck-launch-session startplasma-wayland" works fine.

Any ideas?

Excerpt from /var/log/sddm.log:

[17:55:08.941] (II) DAEMON: Greeter starting...
[17:55:08.942] (II) DAEMON: Greeter stopping...
[17:55:08.942] (WW) DAEMON: Error from greeter session: "Process crashed"
[17:55:08.942] (WW) DAEMON: Auth: sddm-helper (--socket /tmp/sddm-auth-0646d0ea-c7ba-4fac-99d1-69f703416d2c --id 6 --start /usr/local/bin/sddm-greeter-qt6 --socket /tmp/sddm-:0-ikHaiz --theme /usr/local/share/sddm/themes/breeze --user sddm --greeter) crashed (exit code 1)
[17:55:08.942] (WW) DAEMON: Error from greeter session: "Process crashed"
[17:55:08.942] (WW) DAEMON: Auth: sddm-helper exited with 9
[17:55:08.942] (II) DAEMON: Greeter stopped. SDDM::Auth::HelperExitStatus(9)
[17:55:08.963] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Starting...
[17:55:08.963] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Authenticating...
[17:55:08.963] (II) HELPER: [PAM] returning.
[17:55:08.963] (II) HELPER: Writing cookie to "/tmp/xauth_pDPLBN"
[17:55:08.963] (II) HELPER: Starting X11 session: "" "/usr/local/bin/sddm-greeter-qt6 --socket /tmp/sddm-:0-FSIfCO --theme /usr/local/share/sddm/themes/breeze"
[17:55:08.965] (II) DAEMON: Greeter session started successfully
[17:55:09.013] (II) DAEMON: Message received from greeter: Connect
[18:07:19.151] (WW) DAEMON: Signal received: SIGTERM
[18:07:19.152] (II) DAEMON: Greeter stopping...

https://gitlab.com/alfix/kde-installer-dialogs

#freebsd #kde #wayland

Anyone know why using sftp with Dolphin in Plasma is so slow in Alpine Linux?

Using Debian, doing the same thing is like greased lightning.

It's not network, ssh/scp/rsync/sftp command line works wicked fast between hosts with Alpine.

Something about Alpine and Plasma it seems. This has been an on-going thing.

Anyone know a workaround, beside using a different protocol I mean? This should "just work" like on other distros.

#Linux #AlpineLinux #Alpine #Plasma #KDE #KDEPlasma #Dolphin #sftp