Gibt es eigentlich Informationen wann KDE PLASMA 6.7 bei Debian unstable verfügbar sein wird ?
#kde #KDE #plasma6 #kdeplasma67 #debian #debianunstable #linux @debian @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
@debianforum_de

#postmarketOS 26.06 “Alpen Avocado” Released with #GNOME 50, #KDE Plasma 6.6, Phosh 0.55.0, Sxmo 1.18.1, and Alpine Linux 3.24 Base https://9to5linux.com/postmarketos-26-06-alpen-avocado-released-with-gnome-50-and-kde-plasma-6-6

#Linux #OpenSource

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All #KDE fans, what is your favorite #KDE #Linux distro?

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

Holy fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck does #SDDM suck ass! I spent thr last 45 minutes troubleshooting it just to find out that chaing the backgroud was causeing my system to hold up during boot.

I didn’t pull any shenanigans to change the login screen backgroud; I did everything through the Plasma desktop settings.  These are the things that steer me away from #KDE…

Die #Linux Desktop Umgebung #KDE #Plasma bekommt in Version 6.7 einige schöne Neuerungen:
https://kde.org/my/announcements/plasma/6/6.7.0/

Besonders gefällt mir:
- das virtuelle Keyboard für Sonderzeichen, also z. B. "e" gedrückt halten für "é" oder "è"
- der Schalter zum Wechsel zwischen Light und Dark Mode. Hier hatte ich mir bisher einen eigenen Button implementiert. Den brauche ich jetzt nicht mehr :)

Was ich gerade an Linux wieder toll finde.

Ein Freund, den ich beim umsteigen betreuen, nachdem sein Windows10 Rechner sich wieder einen schnupfen eingefangen hat, ist bei mir zu Besuch. Er hat nur wirklich die erste Hilfestellung gebraucht, also Hilfe bei der Installation. Schon beim konfigurieren (Oberfläche KDE) merkte er an "das ist ja alles ziemlich ähnlich, sogar weniger schlimm als MacOS".

Jetzt bei mir, ich mach den Laptop an, aus Gewohnheit erstmal schnell updates. Drehe den Kopf. Kinnlade runter. "Was machst du denn da?"

Ein terminal ist offen. Updates installieren.

Der Freund ist rein auf grafischer ebene unterwegs. Ich viel mit Konsole. Weil Gewohnheit.

Fazit: Linux ist flexibel.

#Linux #KDE #DIDay

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

If your desktop has a system tray, that *is* the correct place to surface background apps! Nice work, KDE.

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.7.0/#background-apps-in-the-system-tray

This will help GNOME as well as more apps will be incentivized to use modern cross-desktop APIs that are less prescriptive with exactly *how* things are displayed.

#GNOME #KDE #Linux #Flatpak

yay, #KDE #Plasma einfach schon geilster desktop dens gibt
kann man einfach bei den farben auswählen "akzentfarben aus dem hintergrundbild" und, zack, hat man geilen desktop 😎

btw: mein desktop hintergrundbild ist mein profilbild - jetzt ist alles so zwischen lila und violett 😅
#linux

Auf "unserer" Realschule in NRW 2004 war dieser "Vorreiter" ein Lehrer, der Pinguin-affin genug war, um einen eigenen Informatikraum mit 20 PCs und Suse + KDE einzurichten.

So haben "wir" damals einige Stunden Informatik auf dem KDE-Desktop und mit Internetrecherche in Konqueror absolviert.

Die Workstations der Schule liefen sonst mit Windows 2000.

Meine erste Erfahrung mit Linux zuhause könnte damit zu tun haben.

War 2005, als ich Suse von mehreren DVDs installiert habe.

Netzwerktreiber gab es für meine Hardware nicht und .exe-Dateien gingen im Texteditor auf.

Ich war dann schnell wieder bei Windows.

Aber immerhin war jetzt bei mir abgespeichert, dass es was anderes gibt.

Bin heute Linux-Systemadministrator.

https://netzpolitik.org/2026/vorreiter-verwaltung-und-politischer-rueckhalt-wie-open-source-in-die-schulen-kommt/

#Linux #opensource #KDE #Schule #suse

The new KDE 6.7 release brought back the Oxygen theme from the KDE4 era.

Hello there, old friend :-))

#KDE #Plasma #KDE67 #Oxygen #nostalgia

19-Jähriges (!) Notebook HP Compaq 6710b läuft wunderbar mit Debian 13 KDE - einfach cool 😎

(Da war noch Windows Vista drauf 😂…)

#linuxrocks #Linux #Debian13 #KDE #HPCompaq #Notebook #Transition #WindowsVista

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HP Compaq 6710b läuft wunderbar mit Debian 13 KDE

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pojntfx/116764515807980184

Yay, finally! My old Android TV is getting slower every day. I tried a clean LinageOS Android TV setup on a Raspberry Pi and it didn’t work out for me. So some months ago I looked into Plasma Big Screen, because I remembered it from some time ago, just to see it got kinda abandoned in the meantime. But there was also some work ongoing to get it polished up and released again.
And here we are!

Now I just have to find out how to get it running, the most KDE way. https://plasma-bigscreen.org still says “Coming soon”.

#KDE #kdeplasma

SonicDE möchte X11 für Plasma weiterentwickeln
https://linuxnews.de/sonicde-moechte-x11-fuer-plasma-weiterentwickeln/ #sonicde #x11 #kde #plasma #linux #linuxnews

KDE Plasma 6.7 released

The KDE team released KDE Plasma 6.7 today, and with it comes a long list of improvements, new features, bug fixes, new old themes, and so much more. A new feature that is sure to please those among us who use virtual desktops: you can now have different virtual desktop setups per display. It's been a long-requested feature, so it's great to see it makes its way to the KDE users. I despise vi

https://www.osnews.com/story/145325/kde-plasma-6-7-released/

#KDE

Found some time to shake the cobwebs off the brane pan with respect to compiling software from source. A couple days ago I was asking about getting an Alpine package for the Klassy theme set for Plasma.

I'm not a developer so it's not my comfort zone really.

I remembered that Alpine generally has the same package naming convention as Arch so I used that example on the Klassy github page as a basis to install all the dependencies and compile. It compiles, super cleanly <kleanly?> too.

But, I can't select it in the Colours & Themes > Global Theme > Application Style picker. It appears with a placeholder bitmap but doesn't allow it to be selected.

Tried logout and reboot for last grasp at straws but no luck. Bummer.

Something else to dig into I guess. The install ran clean so there must be some little subtlety missing when files are copied to their destinations or a config is not updated or something.

Anyone have some hints?

#KDEPlasma #KDE #Plasma #ArchLinux #Linux

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Screen shot of the described Global Themes > Application Style settings dialog with "Failed to apply selected style 'Klassy'" in a banner across the top.

Plasma 6.7 – letztmalig mit X11-Sitzung
https://linuxnews.de/plasma-6-7-letztmalig-mit-x11-sitzung/ #kde #plasma #x11 #wayland #linux #linuxnews

So mein Desktop unter GlfOS - KDE Plasma mit Breeze Dark und Beautyline Icons

#glfos #nixos #linux #kde #plasma #desktop

After years of community testing and development, Plasma 6 is now part of the official Slackware-current tree alongside the ffmpeg8 transition. Many thanks to Patrick Volkerding, alienBOB, LuckyCyborg, and everyone who contributed code, packaging, testing, and bug reports along the way.

Mon Jun 15 23:27:31 UTC 2026
Well folks, it seems that the stars have aligned to bring us a bunch of long-
awaited updates, including ffmpeg8 and Plasma 6! This has been developed in a
side tree for several weeks, and I'll be happy to get that off my plate and
have a greatly reduced todo list. Many thanks to alienBOB for getting the tree
in good shape, helping when I got stuck, and for being a good manager who
inspires me to do my best work. 🙂 And we both extend our thanks to the
illustrious LuckyCyborg who ported the build scripts to Plasma 6 in the first
place and then maintained Plasma 6 for Slackware users to test for a couple of
years. And thanks to everyone else who helped out with either of the Slackware
Plasma 6 projects that these updates grew out of.
Have fun!

#slackware #kde #plasma6

I wrote a full laptop setup guide based on my experience switching to FreeBSD 15.1 on my ThinkPad.

Wayland! KDE Plasma 6! 802.11ac!

This was a labor of love. Enjoy ❤️

https://www.sacredheartsc.com/blog/freebsd-15-on-a-laptop/

#FreeBSD #kde

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

KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta arrives with Plasma Bigscreen, new Union theme system https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/kde-plasma-6-7-beta-arrives-with-plasma-bigscreen-new-union-theme-system/

#KDE #Linux #OpenSource #Plasma

Does anyone know if it's possible to get an on-screen keyboard to pop up in a #QT5 application? libqt5virtualkeyboard5 is installed but does absolutely nothing. Try to tap in text boxes and the keyboard never shows up.

Please boost!

#qt5 #kde #touchcreen #ubuntu

Until now I've never bothered to look into the internals of keyboard software support and whatnot, but for a long time I somehow put up with #Alpine #Linux (or maybe it was a #KDE / #Wayland issue?) not enabling by default key repeat - or however you call holding a button and have it register as continuous holding instead of a single press.

Lo and behold, on #OpenBSD that just works. On the other hand, changing the language on my keyboard when using cwm instead of something like KDE?...

setxkbmap -layout ro does not output an error, but still doesn't mean it actually switched me to Romanian (however, something like French actually just works). wsconsctl keyboard.encoding=ro outputs the error that ro is not a valid encoding. According to the documentation, encodings are apparently listed in /usr/include/dev/wscons/wsksymdef.h - and indeed, there seems to be no "ro" in there. Changing locale didn't seem to help either.

Then I took a deep dive into the man page of wsconsctl(8). There it says: "The current mapping can be printed with wsconsctl keyboard.map. The value for each keycode specifies the keysym that is output when each of Key, Shift + Key, AltGr + Key, or Shift + AltGr + Key is pressed" A magic thing then happens... I test wsconsctl keyboard.map+="keycode 15 = l L at" - afterwards, I see in the keyboard mapping "l L at at"; the output is a Polish l=L with slash. I decide to test AltGr with every other key on my keyboard... I burst into laughter when I realized that I do have now Romanian characters: they were hidden with AltGr. I can't seem to spot them in keyboard.map, where according to the documentation all keysyms should be specified. Maybe setxbkmap did the magic on top? At least I am grateful I can type ăâșîț and not have to copy paste the characters.

I'm running Plasma 6.6 on a box and I'm kind of struggling with the lack of adjustable window outline intensity. I really miss this... whined about it elsewhere.

Examples attached of with and without and where to set it in pre-6.6 and 6.6.

Anyone know how to get this setting back, either via command line or smoke signal or whatever?

#KDE #KDEPlasma #Plasma #Plasma66 @kde

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Breeze Window Decoration, Shadows and Outline on KDE Plasma 6.3.4 (Debian Trixie) has the option to increase the window 'Outline Intensity' as shown in this dialog box.

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Breeze Window Decoration, Shadows and Outline on KDE Plasma 6.6 (KDE Linux) has the option to increase the window 'Outline Intensity' removed as shown in this dialog box

A tool that doesn't get enough love is the KDE "ISO Image Writer".

Sure there's dd and there's tools like Rufus, Etcher, and whatnot, but if it's effectively a tool meant for your platform then why not?

[ Currently writing Alpine v3.23 to a stick to wipe/replace my garage 'droid from Debian to Alpine after work ]

#KDE #KDEPlasma #Plasma #AlpineLinux #iso #iso9660 #USBStick

https://apps.kde.org/isoimagewriter/

More monkeying around with OpenBSD. I spent a bunch of time getting LXQt working but the themeing was taking too much time so I threw more ram at the VM and installed KDE. The goal was to learn about OpenBSD, not LXQT. Ha.

Lots of the standard apps are there in OpenBSD but I need to find out how to get Librewolf and Waterfox going. Having done zero research, I'm assuming I need to compile from source.

I saw an article out using "Molly" as an alternate Signal Messenger client (xn--gckvb8fzb.com/if-you-must-use-signal-use-molly/). May try it in the future.

The KDE Plasma version is 6.4.5. IIRC KDE is stopping X11 support so I will need to figure out something else I guess. I've seen threads about Wayland on OpenBSD but didn't go down the rabbit hole yet. What little I read implied not ready for prime time.

The VM feels pretty snappy even though the QEMU agent doesn't really help with video options. This is using the VGA driver setup to get a decent resolution.

I really need to get this Jeep back on the road. I miss it.

#OpenBSD #KDE #KDEPlasma #LXQt #VM #QEMU #Librewolf #Waterfox #X11 #Wayland #Signal

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Screenshot of OpenBSD running KDE Plasma 6.4.5. Desktop is customized with the panel moved to the top, translucent, floating and the app launcher is open showing a bunch of apps in the favourites. There is a konsole window showing fastfetch output: chris@littlefish ---------------- OS: OpenBSD 7.8 amd64 Host: Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (pc-i440fx-10.1) Kernel: OpenBSD 7.8 Uptime: 51 seconds Packages: 699 (pkg) Shell: ksh 5.2.14 Display (default): 1920x1080 DE: KDE Plasma 6.4.5 WM: KWin (X11) WM Theme: Breeze Theme: Breeze (Dark) [Qt], .. [GTK2], Adwaita [GTK3] Icons: Reversal-dark [Qt], Reversal-dark [GTK2/3] Font: Atkinson Hyperlegible Next (10pt) [Qt], Atkinson Hyperlegible N] Cursor: Breeze_Light (24px) Terminal: konsole 25.8.1 CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11700K (4) @ 0.30 GHz GPU: Mesa llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.7, 256 bits) Memory: 1.53 GiB / 7.73 GiB (20%) Swap: 0 B / 3.75 GiB (0%) Disk (/): 680.42 MiB / 985.76 MiB (69%) - ffs Disk (/tmp): 288.00 KiB / 2.96 GiB (0%) - ffs Disk (/usr): 12.78 GiB / 34.23 GiB (37%) - ffs Disk (/var): 89.87 MiB / 4.70 GiB (2%) - ffs Local IP (vio0): 192.168.86.221/24 Locale: C

Finally, I managed to install and configure a graphical environment directly during a #FreeBSD installation session 🎉

Most of the friction was around GPU drivers, but the feedback and suggestions I received were incredibly helpful. A lot of people want to use FreeBSD on their laptops and desktops, and that really shows.

For now, the goal was to provide a simple option to install #KDE Plasma. If there’s interest and more requests, we can definitely expand this in the future with additional desktop environments and options.

Special thanks to the FreeBSD Foundation for their support 🙌

#RUNBSD #FreeBSDDesktop #FreeBSD #BSD #OpenSource #Unix #KDE #KDEPlasma #DesktopEnvironment #GUI #Laptop #Desktop #FOSS #Tech #SysAdmin #DevOps #OperatingSystem

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A screenshot of the FreeBSD Installer on a blue background. The main focus is the 'Final Configuration' window with a list of system configuration options. The option 'Desktop' is highlighted, indicating the choice to install a graphical environment.

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Text-based FreeBSD installer dialog prompting the user to install GPU drivers, Xorg, KDE Plasma, and a display manager. The message notes that this is an experimental feature. Two options, “Yes” and “No,” are shown, with “Yes” currently selected.

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Text-based FreeBSD installer dialog with the title “Desktop installation completed.” The message explains that the SDDM display manager will start automatically at the next system boot and lists configured users. A tip suggests using the VBoxSVGA graphics controller and disabling 3D acceleration in VirtualBox. An “OK” button is highlighted at the bottom.

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Screenshot of a FreeBSD 15.0 system running inside a VirtualBox virtual machine with the KDE Plasma desktop environment. In the foreground, the “About this System” settings window displays software and hardware information, including KDE Plasma version, Qt version, kernel version, and available memory. In the background, a web browser window is open on the FreeBSD official website.

Plasma: high CPU usage whilst the screen is locked

<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=293820>

Can anyone suggest a workaround?

#FreeBSD #KDE #Plasma #bug

For a second there, I read it as "AI Text Selection" and nearly flipped my lid. XD

#KDE #Plasma #Okluar #NoAI

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Screenshot of a portion of an Okular window, showing the titlebar, browse button, and the Text Selection button which has an icon of an A with a text selection 'I-Beam' cursor next to it, making it looks like the text "AI Text Selection"

FreeBSD 15.1 overview – with KDE Plasma and applications, Ly, and SDDM

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1rje9xu/freebsd_151_overview_with_kde_plasma_and/

@FreeBSDFoundation

#FreeBSD #Foundation #desktop #KDE #Plasma #Ly #SDDM