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This Week in KDE Apps brings LSP Support in KDevelop, systemDGenie rewrite and big UI changes in Dolphin.

You can also look forward to changes in KStars, #Krita, #Kdenlive, KOrganizer, Merkuro, Kleopatra, Itinerary, Neochat, Kate, KDevelop, Okular, Kastsm Gwenview, and more.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/09/this-week-in-kde-apps/

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I installed this maximized window gaps Kwin script on KDE 6. It works fine but I'm wondering if there's a way to show shadows when windows are maximized.

You're still in time to visit KDE's booth at #SCaLE22x!

Come see us at the #Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, CA, and don't miss the chance to try out the newest KDE software, grab some merch and chat with community members and contributors.

https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x

Last day today!

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #linux
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This week #Plasma has received quite a lot of fixes,

like you can now remove the titlebar and frame from a window directly from the Task Manager, the digital clock gets a nicer-looking font picker dialog, and we have simplified the info shown on Display Configuration, among many other improvements and changes.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/08/this-week-in-plasma-a-very-fixy-week/

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#opensource #freesoftware #Plasma6

"Finally #Linux🐧on the official work laptop 💻. I am one of the first in the state administration of #SchleswigHolstein to be allowed to try out the "+1 Linux workstation". 😀"

https://norden.social/@jze/114120937965523403

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We are at #SCaLE22x!

In the Pasadena area? Come visit our booth, try out KDE's newest software, talk to contributors, and grab some stickers!

https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x

Our friends from @kubuntufocus will also be running KDE demos on some fancy high-end hardware. Don't miss it!

#events #california #opensource #freesoftware

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Hi,

I followed this blog post on how to exclude alt+tab from "ignore global shortcuts" since I have a game that behaves a bit weird with global shortcuts but I want to be able to tab out of it.

Since I'm on openSuse, I followed the blog-entry and an openSuse guide to create a patch and I've created one for kglobalaccel-5.x as follows:

***
a/src/runtime/component.cpp	2024-05-04 13:39:39.000000000 +0200
+++ b/src/runtime/component.cpp	2025-03-03 23:56:39.073843737 +0100
@@ -166,6 +166,9 @@
 void Component::deactivateShortcuts(bool temporarily)
 {
     for (GlobalShortcut *shortcut : std::as_const(_current->_actionsMap)) {
+        if (shortcut->uniqueName() == QLatin1String("Walk Through Windows")){
+            continue;
+        }
         if (temporarily //
             && _uniqueName == QLatin1String("kwin") //
             && shortcut->uniqueName() == QLatin1String("Block Global Shortcuts")) {

Just to realize afterwards that I'm using KDE6 and not KDE5...

I've downloaded the source for kglobalaccel-6.x afterwards to change it there, but there is no component.cpp...

Does anyone know where I can insert this or a similar (if possible with the code) if-clause for the alt+tab shortcut to be excluded from ignoring all shortcuts for a specific window?

I've found a component.cpp in kglobacceld with this method, but I'm not sure if I did it right since it doesn't exclude the shortcut. If it makes a difference, my system language is set to German.

Thanks in advance for any help :)

I would like to backup some KDE settings but don't really know which files to copy from .config

Searching for their names in github.com/KDE has given me some idea about their purposes but I couldn't find any comments or documentation there either.

Is it possible to edit the "open folder with" context menu of Konsole?

Hi,

I would like to show keyboard shortcuts being pressed while recording my screen with Spectacle on KDE neon 6.3, and I found apps that could do that but not on Wayland...

Does anyone know any ?

Thank you

"This week in Plasma" covers how KRunner now sees in color, the disk widget finds errors in your drives, Spectacle gets a spectacular overhaul, and much, much more!

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/01/this-week-in-plasma-great-stuff-for-6.4/

#desktop #Plasma #Plasma6 #opensource #FreeSoftware

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I've noticed this issue for a few weeks now, but hoped that it is just a bug and will be fixed soon.
Sadly, this doesn't seem to be the case, so I decided to post this issue here to find solutions.

When I play a YouTube video for example, it shows me everything that's playing right now, and the current status (paused/ playing).
Sadly, I can't manually stop or resume it with my phone, which sucks because I then have to get my lazy ass up the couch and pause it on my laptop a few meters away :D
Or, I have to unlock the phone and use the remote input feature, which is annoying too...

I already checked the Flatpak permissions, the settings in KDE Connect (both on my PC and phone) and looked up on the internet for that problem, where I found both too much and nothing at the same time.

I think it's because of Firefox, because if I play a song on Spotify for example, it works fine.

Do you experience this issue too? How could I fix it?
It appeared out of nowhere, probably due to a update, I didn't do anything that might have broken it.

KDE will be again participating in Google Summer of Code 🎉!

Find out how you can contribute to KDE, learn valuable skills using bleeding edge Free Software technologies and get compensated.

There are already loads of proposals on the GSoC ideas page

https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2025/Ideas

Which one are you going to do?

#gsoc2025 #mentorship #opensource #freesoftware

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Last week, some members of the #Kdenlive core team met in Amsterdam for a short sprint to plan some actions for this year. One of the highlights was a visit to the @Blender foundation. Thanks @fsiddi for receiving us.

https://kdenlive.org/en/2025/02/kdenlive-in-amsterdam/

This visit was possible thanks to @kde and our community donations.

#videoediting #floss #b3d #blender3d

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before 6.3, powerdevil randomly did not answer to increase/decrease brightness after comming back fromm a screen off, and I got it fixed by running systemctl --user restart plasma-powerdevil.service

however now I get a somewhat different problem, the screen is always back at 100% brightness after a dimming and then screen off, although powerdevil is still responsive to increase/decrease brightness shortcut

it's not a laptop, and therefore there is only one power setting running on - AC - via DP

Has anyone else experienced this ?

Can you help us get KDE's software on all those new devices🔧? KDE is hiring!

https://ev.kde.org/resources/jobad-plasma-software-engineer-2025.pdf

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#jobOffer #OpenSource #development

The latest episode of "This Week in KDE Apps" covers big changes in Krita, KDE's popular art app; SystemDGenie's re-design; and Dolphin's new, more compact statusbar.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/02/25/this-week-in-kde-apps/

#apps #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

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TLDR: I want to be able to set specific window sizes and positions of the current window with hotkeys, as well as focus on specific apps with hotkeys.

I've made posts like this elsewhere as I've lately been really trying to figure out Linux. Anyway, right now KDE is very appealing since its very customizable and has a plugin to recreate Window 11's Mica effect.

First, I want an alternative to Rectangle Pro app on Mac, which let's you set many hotketys for changing the current window's size & position: like use up the left or right halves or thirds of the screen, or corners and taking up a quarter of the screen. You can also make custom window layouts and bind those to keys. I've been told to use a WM like Sway, but then I'd have to make my own DE from scratch.

Second, I want to focus on specifc apps with hotkeys. For instance, I'd want to press CTRL Shift Z to switch specifically to Zen Browser or open it if it isn't opened, and CTRL Shift O to open or switch to Obsidian. I only found two solutions for Linux (wmctrl and wlrctl), and none for KDE.

"This Week in Plasma" brings refinements for the weather widget, digital clock, System Settings, Widget Explorer side bar, and more.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/02/22/this-week-in-plasma-refinements-all-around/

#freesoftware #plasma6 #OpenSource #desktop

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Hi,

I was used to switching between laptop speakers and Bluetooth speaker on the normal audio menu.

But one day, I needed to use a TV's speakers through HDMI, and couldn't find it, so I initially thought it was a driver issue, but never found a fix, so I had to use a friend's Windows laptop at the last minute because people were waiting to watch something.

Today, months later, I have the same issue, but on a different laptop with more recent hardware, so I was hoping to have better luck, and I didn't... Until I accidentaly notice that the HDMI device is available under a submenu of the laptop's speakers, WTF ?

Attached to this post is a screenshot showing a Bluetooth speaker, the laptop's speakers and HDMI speakers. Why isn't the latter available at the same location as the former two ?

The submenu could be kept for selecting between 2.0/5.1/7.1, just like for Bluetooth devices it's used to select between aptX/LDAC/SBC, but I don't understand what's a whole different device doing in that submenu of the laptop's speakers.

Thanks

I've seen some really cool looking desktop effects related to blurring windows on plasma 5, they look really good, but I just can't seem to find solid info on how to replicate it in plasma 6.

I've tried downloading and installing quite a bit and researched the issue a long while before coming to this.

Does anyone have some solid info regarding this that you can link below? I'm running Bazzite 41 and can give further info if needed as well as a reference point for what effect I'm trying to achieve.

Guess where we're at? And why?

#kdenlive #videoediting #floss

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This Week in KDE Apps covers new releases for Kaidan, Tellico and Amarok; usability improvements for Itinerary, Kasts and Kate; fixes for KOrganizer and Konsole; and new stuff in Merkuro and SystemDGenie.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/02/17/this-week-in-kde-apps/

#apps #freesoftware #opensource

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