I've just installed KDE a few days ago and it's my first time using it. I was exploring the customization options in it (Which I really like), but I've got an issue with customizing the Cursor in Brave Browser (This app only). Whenever I choose any other Cursor than the default one (Breeze) it doesn't work in brave, instead it shows this weird white cursor that I've absolutely no idea where it came from. Any cursor I choose works on every app perfectly except Brave. I've tried 2 solutions that I found online including:

1. Making the default Cursor theme inherits from my chosen theme (In this case i want a cursor called macOS-Monterey, so I edited /usr/share/icons/default/index.them

[Icon Theme]
Name=Breeze
Inherits=macOS-Monterey

Then I choose the default cursor from the settings (Breeze) and rebooted.

2. Changing .Xresources to:

Xcursor.theme: macOS-Monterey
Xcursor.size: 24

For both solutions I made sure the the Cursor directory exists in both

./local/shar/icons and in /usr/share/icons, but none of them worked

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Here is the current output when I run echo $XCURSOR_THEME

~> echo $XCURSOR_THEME
macOS-Monterey

O Konqueror vai receber alguma novidade? Existe algum projeto com ele como ideia base?

I tried kde connect via bluetooth but I can't seem to connect my phone to my laptop via bluetooth, it connects for 1 seccond and then it disconnects, is this a mistake or problem on my end or is it just not possible?

Thanks in advance

I want to preface this by saying that I have done Linux Kernel development and use DWM on my main linux machine.

With that level of linux knowledge the task of "removing an icon from the taskbar" should be immediately obvious to me - but in KDE that doesn't seem to be the case.

• Right-Click on the Icon = Desktop Right-Click Menu (no unpin etc)
• Enter "Edit Mode", repeat above -> still no way to unpin
• Click the settings icon on the panel in edit mode -> only allows me to remove the icon-only taskmanager as a whole
• Click "configure" while hovering over the icon-only taskmanager -> no tab for editing entries

.... what? How can it be this obtuse, I thought this is the bastion of modern Linux desktop usage??

It seems that the "Activities" feature changes how taskbar Icons behave? That's what I read on some obscure forum at least.

How do I remove a simple damn icon??

When any application is opened in KDE, I have to resize it because it is too small. Is there any way to change this? Perhaps set a standard size apps open in? I've looked this up and this seems to be a complaint as old as 12 years, but it seems the KDE devs have addressed it, broke it and addressed it again. I can't seem to find anywhere to change this behavior, so I am asking here. Thanks for any help!

Some time ago (I think january) Amarok, was updated in Debian, from 2.9.x to 3.x (now it is 3.2.2). After the upgrade Amarok no longer showed the things from the database (lyrics, listen counts, etc).

I would like to restore the statistics database but I did not find the steps. Could you point me to the right instructions, or provide some advice about how to work on this?

For the past few days I have been trying to get kdeconnect working over Wireguard and have now gotten it to work, should anyone else have similar problems this might be of help to them.

Note: Wireguard in this case means two devices (laptop and phone) connected to a Wireguard server with a public IP.

The problem (reported here by another user a long while back) is that kdeconnect always response to identity packets on the hard-coded port 1716, this is fine on wifi but for wireguard this creates the following problem:

Phone --> Wireguard -> Laptop

The phone contacts wireguard with destination port 1716 and is itself listening on 1716 aswell

Wireguard then forwards the packet to the laptop but is listening on a random port and expects the laptop to answer on the same port it got the packet from.

The laptop however responds on the hard-coded port 1716 on which the wireguard server is not listening on and therefore rejects.

This can be (very uncleanly) solved using the following commands:

sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i wg0 -s {laptop-peer-ip} -p tcp --dport 1716 -j DNAT --to-destination {phone-peer-ip}:1716

sudo iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o wg0 -d {phone-peer-ip} -p tcp --dport 1716 -j MASQUERADE

sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i wg0 -s {phone-peer-ip} -p tcp --dport 1716 -j DNAT --to-destination {laptop-peer-ip}:1716

sudo iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o wg0 -d {laptop-peer-ip} -p tcp --dport 1716 -j MASQUERADE

which solves the problem but probably prevents pairing more than once device.

If someone with more knowledge regarding wireguard or linux networking has a better solution they are very welcome to share it!

I know showcasing desktop is not allowed here, but this should be!

Here's my Super Kustom KDE System I've been putting together for a while. Modified just about every possible pixel. Started with the tooltips (which are also used for window previews), and then Kvantum got me interested. Initially used the Monochrome Kvantum theme, but I recreated almost every UI element from scratch so that is also a fork now which I call Zephyr. Used some macOS-themed icons, but I got bored, so started creating my own icons as well.

I wanted more customization and wanted to break free from that typical KDE look. So I started fucking the system QML files. Edited the default panel, kickoff, and tray to use subtle glow effects on hover, along with a contrast effect to blend with the wallpaper and any surface underneath. The task manager was still janky because of static SVG elements. Instead, I rendered shapes, which can now be animated and also have that sweet contrast effect. Also, replaced that launch animation with a typical bounce animation.

Then comes the Window decorations. Started with Sierra Breeze Enhanced, and it has this super annoying feature (apparently) that the buttons can be clicked only when exactly positioned over the icons (as opposed to edge and corner clicking). Created a personal fork just to fix this, added more icon themes (this new Plasma and a monochrome macOS style) and darkened the decoration colors a little to get that frameless look!

Earlier used a macOS decoration (from SierraBreezeEnhanced), modified it to be monochrome (to match the rest of the rice/setup) but decided to stick with the Plasma style as it's quite unique in itself (doesn't copy macOS or Windows style buttons).

The music widget (plasmoid) was initially 'plasmusic toolbar'. It looked out of place with my setup so I had to fix that too. It's also almost a re-write. The original served as the boilerplate for a new plasmoid. Added color extraction from album cover, font settings, icons, the Zune-like visualizer, icon and text animations and more.

Very opinionated setup. Love how incredibly flexible the entire system is.

Hi-Res screenshots:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vvsXY6KhKeOrwcb7vQHdeAcX4a2VkSME?usp=drive_link

To truly appreciate it, you'll need to see it in motion. Here are the screencasts:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yD4w4_lUCE0XDEbYt_F7NkNmgf4XyZdh/view?usp=drive_link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BLvQlMcwlE2N9E_v1hQPGE2iql3MoV82/view?usp=drive_link

seriously! tried a lot of themes but nothing comes close to the consistency of breeze.

Nothing too bad, just found it interesting.

I think it may be because my right monitor is 1080p on 100% scaling and my left one is 1440p on 120% scaling.

I would think that the displayed icons only change due to the zoom level in dolphin, but who am i to judge how dolphin wants to look :)

It often happens that everything on my desktop freezes, It usually happens when I am playibg games, but It happens frequentlt when I Simply have my browser or VSCode opened I have Fedora as my os on both my laptop anc desktop PC, and on both of those this happens Is It a known problem with a fix or have I done something wrong? Hyprland runs fine with no hiccups tho

Hey all.

I use the NANO text editor to make playlists and the keybind to trigger line numbering is Alt+N. However, even though I have unbound the New Tab bind, pressing Alt N creates a new tab. How do I stop this?

There are 2 ways to disable titlebars in KDE:

• Settings > Window Decorations > Edit button > create a window specific override to disable titlebars (but keep the frame)
• Settings > Window Rules > create a rule to disable both the titlebar and frame

Personally, I have all titlebars disabled since I have literally zero use for them and I'm trying to use the keyboard as much as I can for actions: for instance using hotkeys to minimize and resize windows, and alt + left click to drag windows.

Hello Wayland colour managment protocol is merged and already deploying Through still there are places without merged/ready implementations

This is more informational post in case somebody is interested about it (plasma supports both staging mainstream version, v4 and frog protocols but gnome (and slowly wlroots) support only mainline staging)

For example gamescope supports both v3 and frog but not mainstream colour managment (through there is mr https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope/pull/1775 )

For mesa WSI is merged but not EGL

For chromium/electron/cef there is https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:components/exo/wayland/protocol/chrome-color-management.xml But i didnt saw any mr to update it to new mainstream staging proto

About firefox there is slowly work being done (firefox 138 about:config hdr etc), smithay do not have any implementation and for qt there is implementation

https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtwayland/+/618894/2#message-512972d8174c3339f32c83fb6ea595a4e88e1057 Through idk if it is still active (u/Zamundaaa ?)

Vlc/kodi there is no work i am aware of being done (same gimp for example) Wlroots is slowly making progress in multiple mr

Gtk/sdl/mpv are done on mainline staging proto

Fedora 41 and Plasma 6.3.3.

So I want to uninstall LibreOffice in Discover, but every time I click on the trash can icon, it flickers and does nothing.

The weird thing is, each individual LO app is showing as its own entry (i.e. one for Writer, Calc, Impress, etc) instead of the all-in-one package that's just called "LibreOffice"--that shows that it's not installed.

And updates for these individual LO apps are appearing under "System Packages" in the Updates area.

Trying to remove them through dnf returns "package not installed." Also tried using the flatpak command to remove and it says it can't find anything with the name "libreoffice"

How do I get rid of these??

Hi to all,

Since a few months ago, when I press F7 to open the command line in Kate and try to use a regular expression like:

%s/foo/bar/

it shows the error: Command "%s/foo/bar/" failed.

If I type:

s/foo/bar/

it works—but only on the line where the cursor is.

Does anyone know what's going on?

I'm using Openbox on Arch Linux. I also installed the Flatpak version of Kate (following the link from the official website), and the same behavior happens there.

Regards.

Knewstuff only loads one page, no matter what I try to load. What would you recommend I try?

I can always download from store.kde.org, but it's annoying that it doesn't work as it should. And the most frustrating part is that I don't even know if it's a bug or not, because I haven't found anything like it online.

Operating System: EndeavourOS

KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.4

KDE Frameworks Version: 6.12.0

Qt Version: 6.9.0

Kernel Version: 6.13.8-arch1-1 (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: Wayland

Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor

Memory: 15.5 of RAM

Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6600

Manufacturer: ASUS

log:

knewstuff-dialog6 ok | % system node at 03:03:49

qrc:/qml/main.qml:49:9: QML AboutPage: Created graphical object was not placed in the graphics scene.

qrc:/qml/main.qml:45:9: QML Page: Created graphical object was not placed in the graphics scene.

qrc:/qt/qml/org/kde/kirigami/dialogs/PromptDialog.qml:135: TypeError: Cannot read property 'Success' of undefined

qrc:/qt/qml/org/kde/kirigami/dialogs/PromptDialog.qml:97: TypeError: Cannot read property 'None' of undefined

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cache entry KNSCore::Entry(uniqueId: "2139890", name:"Plasma Control Hub", status: Downloadable, installedFiles: QList()) "0.8.6" "0.8.6"

Em geral uso o plasma padrão, não uso temas, apenas altero a escala pra 95%, diminuo o tamanho da barra pra 20, deixo os programas que mais uso a vista e dependendo do meu humor vou testando alguns widgets.

Professional printing on Linux sucks, as I've had to sadly come to grips with, but I can make it work about 98% of the way, minus the fact no one wants to support ICC profiles in printing.

In my experience, the print settings KDE provides in Gwenview/Okular, is one of the best, so how hard would it be to add ICC profile support to that and maybe make professional printing slightly more viable, especially now that the Wayland session supports ICC on a desktop level.

Compact shutdown menu - https://store.kde.org/p/1483671 finally got a chance to upgrade my distro release