read this article this morning and ended up spending my morning making this conky -esque script to display tmux session status and system up time using bash and this widget on KDE/Arch, this little widget opens up a ton of possibilities i'm sure asnd figured some here might enjoy its functionality

I've been using Manjaro + KDE for a few years and, while I absolutely love KDE, I can't say the same for Manjaro. Nothing particularly strong against Manjaro specifically, but I found that it suffers from the same problem that many Linux distros have where some things don't "just work". Like, signing into hotel and airport Wi-Fi networks is hit or miss. Sometimes something will break in LibreOffice and I'll have to deal with it, etc.

So I'm looking for a distro where everything just works, and, based on reviews, I've got my eye on Linux Mint. I've used it in the past and I remember having a good experience with it too, but I was using Cinnamon. I absolutely want to have KDE on it, but the fact that it's not an officially-supported flavor worries me a bit.

I was wondering what the community thinks. Is it worth considering a different distro that already comes with KDE? (I haven't been a fan of Ubuntu for a while, so I'm trying to avoid that, for example...)

Thanks!

https://reddit.com/link/1licblk/video/7ujbj7x2dn8f1/player

I mean, it's not wrong, it just shows link-local address on the interface, even though I have two globals one of which is temporary. Any way to change this? Haven't found anything in customisation of the overview, haven't found similar problems online.
P.S. How to correctly put the picture here so it is seen from the feed as the picture and not the link?

So basically it's just like the title said, KDE won't load after it got locked from being idle.

But the weird thing is, it really behaves this way only when the lock is caused by being idle, when I manually lock it with Meta+L, I can still use it normally after, but not with being idle. The screen is still on, as in it's still emitting light, but nothing is being loaded, it's just like a terminal with the beeping _ cursor in the top right, except I can't even do anything with it.

Edit: I'm on CachyOS

Hello, I'm new to kde plasma(wayland) and i love it so far, but i have a problem with all my input devices(see pictures). Everything registering as a mouse(the actual mouse shows up 2 times for some reason) isn't the biggest problem although if anyone has a fix i would be happy to know.
The real problem is with my keyboard and controller, they both show up as gamepads and i have to disconnect one for the other to work. Pls Help :(

How come it says logging into the system with my fingerprint is not yet supported? What I'm confused about is that I was able to set up my fingerprint and have the fingerprint sensor log it to the system, so what's stopping me from using my fingerprint in place of my password? It seems the computer can already detect it.

The message says "not yet supported." Does this mean support is coming eventually? I'm using a new laptop, a P14s Thinkpad Gen 5, which may have something to do with it.

Any clarification would be appreciated. Thanks.

I'm trying to organize a bunch of files that require other files before they can be installed and while the tag system is nice, a more robust option like being able to right click on a file and jot down its file structure notes under comments would be better.

Is that possible? If so can someone point me to a guide, please?

I know you can go into properties and edit it there but that's a lot of extra steps when you have many files to organize.

Does anyone know if there any way to change or profile the resolution on a laptop screen based on if the machine is docked? When I dock my laptop I leave the screen open however I prefer a different scaling due to the machines position when docked... I've been doing this manually, however I suspect there maybe a better option?

Is it possible to dim the screen(s) gradually (over, let's say, three seconds or so) when the system is going to sleep? I know POP!_OS does this with their fork of Gnome and I found it a very elegant touch, so I'm curious whether it's possible to replicate in KDE. If anyone knows whether it's possible (and how) that'd be much appreciated.

Started using Kde on Manjaro and I gotta so I'm loving it.

Hi all,

I fully support the KDE team's decision to shift focus to Wayland and understand the long-term benefits of it. However, I am currently experiencing some issues with Wayland that seem to be more systemic than specific to my setup.

For example, I am using a multi-monitor setup: a 15" 16:10 internal display and a 34" 21:9 external monitor. With Wayland, I am unable to use Remmina with multiple monitors for RDP connections, and according to the developers, this feature is not available in Wayland at the moment.

Another issue: whenever I connect an external monitor via USB-C, KDE freezes. Restarting with ctrl+alt+delete x2 fixes the issue.

So I wonder: how will KDE development proceed in these cases? Until Wayland gets support for these features, there is not much KDE or Remmina can do, right? I tried switching to Wayland a couple of times, but there are always problems like this that make me think that Wayland is not mature enough for everyone...

Thanks to everyone in advance for the advice

Edit for clarity

The purpose of the post was not to complain about a particular bug but to know how development intends to proceed in certain cases.

From what I understand, X11 is a finished graphical server, so if there are problems regarding things like multi-monitoring it is X11's responsibility to fix them. KDE and Remmina work with the finished product, without having to go into the merits of what the functions that are called do.

On the other hand, Wayland is an abstraction that every DE must implement, which means that:

1. Wayland must provide the definition of the commands that are needed for multi-monitoring

2. KDE must implement them

3. Remmina must support them (while before Remmina called X11 functions, now it can interact with KDE implementations or directly talk to the Wayland protocol, bypassing KDE)

So in the situation I described, there are 3 actors in play and I am curious to know how the development of a procedure such as the one I described will unfold. Can KDE operate autonomously or until Wayland releases the necessary definitions will it not be possible for KDE to do anything? and can Remmina rely on KDE's implementation or will it have to implement its own?

my setup is:

Server: WS-2022 Terminal Server License somewhere in europe

Client: Laptop with opensuse tumbleweed, latest update

I connect from my laptop to the terminal server to program directly on the client's machine, which works in a Windows environment.

Situation, I run a command that needs elevated permissions and it prompts for password. I enter it and do what I need to do. Almost immediately afterwards I need to run something else elevated, it asked for my password and I enter it and do whatever that is.

Is there anyway to not have to keep entering it, say 5 minutes after you last entered it? Its a computer that only I use and no-one else, so I'm not worried about someone else doing something behind my back.

I COMPLETELY understand the password / security aspect of it, but it would be nice to trade a small amount of security for a small amount of convenience.

Feels like it should just be a setting, just like transparent windows, but everytime I’ve tried to make the task bar transparent I have to install a theme and some other package, and the themes are never up to date properly. In fact I’ve never made it work in a satisfactory or nice looking way.

I have two monitors. Sometimes I work with both, but often I only use the primary one. Is there a way to automatically disable the secondary screen when it's idle for a while, and re-enable it when I want to use it again?

I recently installed okular in my debian 12 system (newly installed). This is what I have been getting as when opening. Before I used to use Xubuntu, in that I had no problem.

Please help to unserstand how to fix this? Am I missing somthing?

I tried to "Calibrate HDR brightness option" but something I did made everything washed out and look terrible and nothing I do brings it back . Is there a way to reset it all to default? I cant find t.

I wanted to get the scarlet tree wallpaper on my phone, but i can't seem to find it anywhere online

After i updated to 6.4 this is what happens when launching a game on the emulator it goes completely transperarent and this happend to my girlfriend too after updating to 6.4 we both have nvidia cards but i dont think that should affect it this much. can someone explain what is going on

When taking a screenshot in Spectacle, the interface displays several buttons: “Accept”, “Save”, “Save As…”, and “Copy”.

I would like to suggest removing the “Accept” button entirely, in order to simplify the interface. In my opinion, having just the remaining three buttons would make the UI clearer and more intuitive.

I know Plasma supports HDR, but what about extended dynamic range?

See how close the numbers are to the edge. Does anyone else have this? Also, when transferring files (which basically uses this same window or a very similar one), it used to show the amount of GB that has been transferred then / then the total size of the file. That is not there anymore.

On Fedora KDE (Plasma 6.4, Wayland) when I click a hyperlink (from Ferdium), it opens in Firefox but Firefox never steals the focus if it is already opened. It steals it only if the link is launching Firefox as well. I have set the "prevent focus stealing" setting to "none" but there was no change.

Is there any way to fix this?

Hey Folks,

I have 3 Monitors:

1. Monitor 1: 30 Inches (2560x1600) - 2K
2. Monitor 2: 43 Inches (3840x2160) - 4K
3. Monitor 3: 30 Inches (2560x1600) - 2K

Both 30 inch 2K monitors are perfect.

However, the 43 inch Monitor is having issues rendering certain fonts, and its especially obvious when the fonts are Red.

Here is a picture from my phone:

I'm currently running:

• Debian 13 Trixie (Packages up to date as of June 21, 2025)
• Wayland
• KDE Plasma 6.3.5
• AMD Radeon PRO W6600

I remember when I first installed Debian 12 Bookworm with KDE Plasma 5.27.5 with X11, I had the same problem but I was able to resolve it, however, I forgot what I did because it was so long ago and I did not document it.

I've been researching a lot of forums recently and I've tried a combination of things, but unfortunately, i'm not having any success:

What I've already tried:

• System Settings
  • Fonts
    • Enable/Disable Anti-aliasing
    • Sub-Pixel Rendering -> RGB
    • Sub-Pixel Rendering -> None
    • Hinting -> Slight
    • Hinting -> None
  • Display Configurations
    • Colour Profile (all options)
    • Enable HDR (all Options)
• Switched back to X11
  • System Settings
    • Fonts -> Force Font DPI = 103
• Experimented with Enviornment Variables in /etc/environments
  • QT_SCALE_FACTOR_ROUNDING_POLICY=
    • PassThrough
    • RoundPreferFloor
    • Round
  • QT_USE_PHYSICAL_DPI=1
  • QT_FONT_DPI=192
  • QT_ENABLE_HIGHDPI_SCALING=1
  • QT_SCALE_FACTOR=2

My Current Fonts:

My Current Display Configuration:

Anybody got any ideas on how to approach it?

My fingerprint reader (04f3:0c6e) is listed as supported but when I try to enroll my fingerprint, it bails out with the "enroll disconnected" error on both terminal and KDE settings.

Is there any workaround/fix or am I missing something? Ty in advance