Create accountLogin

Recent searches

No recent searches

Search options

Only available when logged in.
mastodon.me.uk is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Open, user-supported, corporation-free social media for the UK.

Administered by:

Server stats:

532
active users

mastodon.me.uk: AboutProfiles directoryPrivacy policy

Mastodon: AboutGet the appKeyboard shortcutsView source codev4.3.6

#plasma

9 posts7 participants3 posts today
Public
R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵

I hate to look a gift horse in the mouth, but there absolutely needs to be a setting to prevent the floating panels in #KDE #Plasma from de-floating when a window touches them.

It looks hideous, I'm sorry. ;___;

#StayFloatyMyFriends

P.S., unrelated soapbox: this our fediverse, we can do anything we want. I'd like a syntax for spaced-out hashtags, like: #{ look how wonderfully readable this gargantuan hashtag is } vs #CamelCaseHelpsALotButThisHashtagIsStillABigAlphabetSalad

"Don't use such ridiculous, useless, wasteful, gargantuan hashtags," you say?
Hold thy tongue!!!

Replied in thread
Public
R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵

@amin

If 12 is working for you, then playing it safe is definitely a solid choice.

I mainly moved because I really wanted a newer stable kernel, and I was having some weird wifi issues with the backported kernels.

Also, #KDE #Plasma 6 is NIIIIIIIIICE. Even the #Wayland session. They've settled all the gripes I personally had with it, I think. At least, as far as running KDE-Wayland. Wayland itself still has some issues to iron out, some of which will never be dealt with to everyone's satisfaction.

That's just the way of things. It does feel a bit like a minimalist solution, which is ironically the opposite criticism that systemd gets leveled at it (and mostly quite fairly, IMHO).

Public
vkc (Veronica Explains)

A couple years ago I made a video praising Fedora's Plasma edition, which at the time I felt was underappreciated.

I'm so glad to see it get the love it deserves.

I'm not going to add an extra "reading release notes to you" video to the din, plenty of folks are going to do a better job of that than I would. But I encourage folks who haven't tried Fedora or Plasma for a while to give it a try.

Job well done, folks.

fedoraproject.org/kde/

fedoraproject.orgThe Next Generation Personal DesktopA customizable high-quality desktop, built on the latest open source technology. Trusted, powerful and easy.
#fedora#kde#plasma
Public *
LinuxNews.de

Ist #linux im geschäftlichen Umfeld brauchbar für #endanwender? Nächste Woche finden wir das raus. Eine unserer Vertrieblerinnen hat bei mir mal dieses hübsche OS gesehen und wollte das auch (#kde #plasma mit Theme).

Da sie nicht mehr als #remmina und #firefox unterwegs braucht, gehen wir dieses Experiment mal ein. Wird spannend, bisher haben sie nur Linux Thin Clients mit einem Remmina Icon auf dem Desktop - wirklich Linux nutzen ist das ja nicht. Ich werde berichten

#freesoftware#opensource
Replied in thread
Public
Graham Perrin

@david_chisnall

"… would love to switch to another platform but whenever I try KDE or GNOME my experience is always ‘not quite as bad as Windows’, …"

For more than two decades, I was a huge fan of Apple's OS. Yosemite was the killer, I switched to PC-BSD.

Now, preparing to switch from FreeBSD to Linux:

– whilst I do miss the excellent aspects of Mac OS X, the worst aspects are so bad that I'll never switch back

– I can barely tolerate Microsoft's desktop environment, and that's not because I'm anti-Microsoft

– KDE Plasma ticks more boxes than any other DE.

YMMV :-)

#Apple#FreeBSD#Linux
Public *
Fell

I built a latency meter with an Arduino and a photo transistor to answer one question: Is click-to-photon latency higher on Wayland than on X11?

And the answer is: Yes, actually.

⏱️ 42 ms on X11, compositing off
⏱️ 56 ms on X11, compositing on
⏱️ 64 ms on Wayland
⏱️ 71 ms on Windows 10

Tested with Plasma 6.3.4 and Firefox 137. I will improve my methods and confirm these numbers. See replies for details.

#Arduino#DIY#Electronics
Replied to R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵
Public
Dendrobatus Azureus

@rl_dane

Remember my complaint about out of the box mapping of just 12 desktops in different desktop environments like XFce?

Because of my different workflows I have 16 desktops predefined, just so I know, with the keyboard shortcut, where to jump to fast and continue where I left off. I only use the mouse when I absolutely have to, or when it's really elegant to do so, so I'm a keyboard shortcut mapping daemon.

I haven't taken the time yet to check into the configuration files, of my preferred Desktop Environments and Window Managers, how to map more keyboard shortcuts to More virtual desktops.

However I'm certain that what you want is scriptable, in at least three Desktop Environments and at least two Window Managers it's just not out of the box

I love digging into configuration files and I've seen this options in a few of them

#VirtualDesktop#UI#Desktops
Public
R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵

I'm guessing it would require extensive retooling, but it would be neat if you could have a different number of virtual desktops on various Activities in #KDE #Plasma.

Like, my work activity has nine desktops, because I routinely need more than 4, and sometimes more than 6, but for my personal activity, I really only need one. ;)

Public *
hansenerd

2025, the year I switch from wayland to Xorg.

Why? Because I bought a new screen.
Huh? Well, I don't know either.
Plasma 6 on wayland worked fine with my fullhd-screen. Yesterday, I powered the box down, switched to my new hi(gher)dpi screen, powered it on, got the bios post, boot messages, and a black screen instead of sddm. An hour later I found that sddms wayland support is experimental still, so I switched it to X, and got a black screen when my plasma-wayland session was to start. So, switched to plasma-x11 and everything is fine.
Other compositor (tested sway) are fine. 🤷

Don't know if it's nixos or plasma, I'll probably try a live usb later.
So yeah, it's the year 2025 and I'm on X. Well, could be worse, could be the other X.

#nixos#wayland#plasma
Public
R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵

Something I miss from #Tiling wms/compositors like #i3wm and #sway when I'm on #KDE:

I use #Yakuake on KDE #Plasma to have a terminal that's easily accessible, but stays out of my way when I don't want to see it.

On tiling setups, I use disappearing windows (I forget the actual name of the feature) that will pop up when I hit super+-, appear one at a time, and then disappear.

Yakuake lets you do tiling as well within its window, but I kinda miss the ability to cycle through a bunch of windows very easily. I mean, I've got the keyboard shortcuts set up very nicely, so it's just F12 to make the window appear and disappear, and then control+tab to cycle through tabs or control+pgup/pgdown to jump between panes, but somehow the tiling setup is just a bit easier to do. Less thinking, just super+-. ;)

I don't know if I'll continue to use tiling setup too much longer, though. It's too aggravating to figure out how to get the occasional gnome program to work properly. There's always some kind of fancy library initialization that I fail to get right. It's easier to just use a DE and whittle it down to nearly tiling levels of productivity.

:BlobCatDerpy:

ExploreLive feeds
About