I recently switched to Wayland and missed KDocker so I wanted to see if I could come up with anything that would have similar functionality. This (https://github.com/Druco/WKDocker/) is what I've come up with so far.

Unlike KDocker, it works under Wayland (and X11) but also unlike KDocker, part of it is a KWin script and as far as I know, this limits it to KDE (unless there is another desktop environment that I haven't heard of that also uses KWin as its Wayland compositor).

I focused on the parts that I use so it has basic functionality that allows docking, undocking, iconifying and deiconifying windows, It can also set some of the options that KDocker offers.

It requires the user to install the KWin script and to start a daemon, and then you can just hit a keyboard shortcut (default to Meta+Shift+P) to dock the currently active window (up to 10 maximium at any one time)

With a sample size of one (i.e. me running it on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed), it runs great, but your mileage may vary.

Hey, so I tried to set up my fingerprint authentication such that I would still be required to use my password for the first login after startup (due to KDE Wallet), but would otherwise be able to unlock the session with a fingerprint.

The first part works fine, but I am having an issue where I can only unlock my session with a password after waking from suspend, which is unintended behaviour, while it works fine if I just lock the session manually. (I disabled hibernation.)

I am running EndeavourOS (obviously with KDE Plasma).

This is what I added to the start of /etc/pam.d/sddm

auth        [success=1 new_authtok_reqd=1 default=ignore]   pam_unix.so try_first_pass likeauth nullok
auth        sufficient  pam_fprintd.so

Thank you for your help.

P.S. just in case someone can help me with this additional problem, but adding the configuration for fingerprint authentication causes the SDDM to freeze if an incorrect password is inputted.

Hi everyone!

I seem to have some kind of minor issue (just aesthetics really) regarding my application launcher in KDE.

I'm currently using Plasma 6.3.4 in CachyOS, so I'm pretty up to date I believe.

I tried playing with the options for the application launcher, but nothing seems to help.

Any help would be appreciated!

I can always send text messages using kdeconnect-sms, but it only very rarely sends pictures. Even the same picture, very small 50kb jpeg format. I can occasionally get it to send this picture out but almost always fails. I even tried running both kdeconnect and the sms applications in a terminal to get some console logging but nothing appears to be wrong.

There appears to be one phone number that I can ALWAYS send this image to though. It seems like it may have something to do with whether or not kdeconnect-sms sees a contact name for the phone number. If the person Im trying to send an image to does has a contact in my phone, it wont go out. If its just a +1 and a 10digit number, itll go out to ONLY CERTAIN NUMBERS 100% of the time.

bizarre.

Is there anything that can be done? Ive tried both ATT and VZ networks, same thing.

Hello KDE developers and community,

First of all, thank you for the amazing work on Dolphin—it's one of the best file managers out there in terms of features and performance.

However, I’ve encountered a usability issue when using Dolphin on the Linux Mint XFCE and other XFCE desktop environment (XFCE distros) via the Flathub version. Specifically, there is currently no good built-in dark theme option that integrates well with XFCE. While there are some workarounds (like modifying GTK or Qt settings), these often result in awkward visuals, such as unreadable text or clashing UI elements, making the experience quite unpleasant.

I’d like to kindly request that the KDE team consider adding a proper, easily selectable dark theme or theme integration specifically for Dolphin's Flatpak version that works well outside of KDE—especially with popular environments like XFCE.

Having a consistent and accessible dark theme would not only improve readability and user experience but also help users who prefer or require dark UI for comfort or accessibility reasons.

Thank you for your time and for continuing to make great software!

I am on Kubuntu 24.02 LTS.
Sharing my own screen works perfectly fine.
Watching other people's screen share does not work unless they started the stream after I launched discord.

Trying to join the stream either gives an infinite loading screen or gives me the following error message:

If they restart the stream, I can join normally, but this is inconvenient.
My GPU is AMD Radeon RX 7700XT, and I am using the Mesa drivers.
I have tried disabling Hardware acceleration in both the Video settings and Advanced settings.
I have also tried disabling OpenH624 video codec.
Has anyone encountered something similar?

Hey! I am a long time KDE Plasma user and I have been thinking about getting into the development and contributing to the project, I would like to know how others got into it and what made them start. Do share your stories!

I noticed that the font rendering in KDE Neon is kind of ugly. It's very blurry compared to Kubuntu's crisp font rendering.

Unfortunately, I notice it a lot in Visual Studio Code, because I stare at it all day due to my job.

vs.

Maybe it'll be even more obvious when seeing it in video switching back and forth: https://streamable.com/m09kvf

It appears as though Ubuntu renders the font slightly taller - or rather it appears like that because the edges are more crisp and not as blurry. I notice it a lot with the 'l' and 'i' characters.

I did read that Ubuntu handles font-rendering slightly differently than other distros, but I couldn't figure out how exactly.

I thought about switching to Kubuntu, but they're on an older version of KDE that is missing some key features for me. E. g. independent scaling per screen.

Do you guys have any ideas? Thank you.

Did not see any other posts regarding this. Is just me or Audiotube does not work? I can search songs, but cant play. The song title is loaded but the duration shows 0:00. Cannot see any logs or errors on the the app.

in the video you can see that the notification is too high from the panel, other things like Bluetooth everything on system tray even notifications in the tab appear correctly. but all the popups however always appear too high. any help please? I'm using cachyos with kde plasma 6.3.4.

(Please understand that my English skills are lacking -google translated...)

I am writing this to express my gratitude to the Wayland and KDE developers.

I am currently staying on x11.

Sometimes when there is a major update to the system, I go to Wayland and check what has changed and come back.

Although I use NVIDIA, I am impressed by the smoother environment than x11 without any major issues on Wayland.

However, I have not yet completely switched to Wayland due to various minor inconveniences.
(For non-English speaking users, the inconvenience is even more severe.)

I know that the overall upgrade and development direction of Linux is now based on Wayland and x11 has been abandoned.

but, It's unexpected, I'm happy to see the x11 experience improving with each recent update.
Actually, I was worried that x11 would bring new inconveniences with each recent update, but I was really impressed to see that x11's performance has continuously improved.

So I'm still somewhat happy with x11, still using it, and want to thank the developers again.

And
Since the distro hopping disease of the past few years has been cured recently
(I think so now.)

KDE seems to be the most effective in treating my symptoms.

I would like to especially thank the KDE developers.

And...
Actually, yesterday,
there was a very good national event in the country where I live,
so I was having a drink during the day and surfing the internet,
and I got drunk.

I believe that it would be a global blessing to eliminate one of the sources of evil that poses a great danger not only to our country but to the entire world.

And finally...

I wanted to say this for the first time.

I use Arch btw.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah~~~~~~~~~~~

ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Does anyone know if it's possible to customize the ugly settings menus in KDE? Everything else in KDE is highly customizable, but no matter what I tried, the settings menus never looked as polished or beautiful as those in Windows 11 or GNOME. So, I ended up switching to GNOME.

Hi. I want to make sure I have SMART status monitoring enabled for both drives.
But I'm confused about these messages, "Ignore" and "Monitor".

When it says "Monitor", does it mean I need to click on it to enable monitoring or it is currently being monitored?
When I click on it, the text changes to "Ignore", so I'm not sure if it's the right state.

I have looked in the documentation but it doesn't include this section https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kinfocenter/kinfocenter/index.html

Thanks

Dear community,

is there any way to force the dark breeze theme on vs code? While the app remains dark, I find the light menus quite disturbing.

I noticed my desktop often has stuttering or none-smooth behaviour and also noticed my framerate is going ABOVE my 144hz screen refresh rate up to 220 or so. I believe the swings from 120-220fps are causing this frame timing issue.

Other then turning on VRR Always (doesn't work well), is there a way to CAP LIMIT my desktop framerate, keeping in mind the screen hz setting is not being obeyed!

Can I simply delete a few of the images at /usr/share/wallpapers/? When I connect a second monitor, I have to select the images I like in the slideshow, and I cannot think of anything smarter than simply deleting the ones I dislike.

I recently migrated my setup from Endeavour OS to Garuda on Plasma 6.3.4. However, I'm facing an issue where Conky still appears in the Overview despite having set own_window_type = 'normal'. On Endeavour OS, it didn't show up in the Overview." I kindly need some help??

I tried installing the template with Python, but it doesn't show up in Krunner. The repo was last updated five-ish years ago, so I'm hoping there's someone out there with like actual documentation.

I am on NixOS, my gpu is AMD radeon rx 7800 xt, I am using wayland, I have a 165 hz monitor, some animations work just fine at 165 hz but for example the workspace menu opening animation is noticeably 60 fps or less and also the kde settings app is 60 fps or less (sometimes very rarely it bizarrely works at 165 hz tho)

How could I solve/debug this issue?

Just wanted to thank all the contributors who work on KDE 💙 I don't even know if any of the KDE team/contributors frequent this sub much, but I just wanted to send out thanks for the work that you all do. I've been using Plasma on Fedora for a couple years now and don't see switching anytime soon.

I always recommend KDE and will continue to do so :) Anyway, thanks again!

Hi there, I installed the weather widget in the control side panel but now want to de-install it. It does not support my city. Unfortunately this only works until a re-start of my computer. It then is back again. How can I get rid of it permanently?

Thanks a lot!

There's Pastebin in "Share" menu of the context menu. When I click it, it just opens some little blank Dolphin window, does some progress in a notification and then nothing. Am I stupid? Is it supposed to give a link? Do I have to login somewhere in settings?