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I'm trying to reassign the side buttons on my logitech superlight to keyboard input. However, the side buttons default to to back/forward.

The settings window for reassigning mouse input is in a 'forwarded' position, so clicking the 'back' button on the mouse results in the settings window moving back a menu level instead of reassigning the button.

The 'forward' mouse button can be reassigned, though, as there is nothing 'ahead' in the menu.

I've previously had luck reassigning the side buttons using input-remapper, but I'm on tumbleweed which doesn't have input-remapper in its repositories.

Is there a way around this UI quirk in KDE that will allow me to reassign the 'back' button on my mouse?

Or have any other tumbleweed users had luck reassigning both mouse side buttons on KDE?

One other approach I can think of is if it's possible to disable/supress the default forward/back behavior in KDE.

Hey everyone! I just updated my personal global theme set to Plasma 6, you can get it from "System Settings > Global Themes > Get New...". You can also find more application specific themes (Konsole, Kate, Firefox, VSCode, Kitty) in the Github repo for a consistent desktop experience. If you happen to find any bugs with the Plasma 6 port, please open an issue.

Github: https://github.com/qewer33/leaf-kde

More preview images: https://github.com/qewer33/leaf-kde/tree/main/assets

And if you like this theme, consider getting me coffee! :D

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Hello all,

I have installed fedora kinoite and everything is working as expected, except theming.

I know this is a limitation due to sandboxing and that there is a way around it.

Now, all guides are either only for Gnome theming or 2-4 years old.

Is there a simplified way on how to make applications like Firefox and libreoffice use the standard breeze dark KDE theme?

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Astronomy aficionados rejoice! KStars 3.7.2 🔭 has just been released and it comes with more features and easier parameter tuning that will help you take better photographs of the Cosmos🌠.

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Hello to everyone.

I'm trying to run KDE 6 with Wayland on FreeBSD 14.1-p2. I tried with both my PCs. The first one has 2 nvidia cards :

GTX 1060
RTX 2080 ti

The second has only 1 integrated GPU : Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4600

Ok. On the second PC they worked. On the first one it does not work.

Definitely the error to fix is this :

No provider of glEGLImageTargetTexture2DOES found. Requires one of : GL_OES_EGL_image

This is the script I use to start kde 6 + wayland and that it works on the PC with the Intel HD Graphics 4600 :

export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config"
export XDG_CACHE_HOME="$HOME/.cache"
export XDG_DATA_HOME="$HOME/.local/share"
export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/var/run/user/1001"
export LIBSEAT_BACKEND=consolekit2

ck-launch-session dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland

Do you have any idea about what could cause this and how to fix this ?

Thanks.

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Hi,

Crystal Dock v2.2 is out now!

What it is: Crystal Dock is a cool dock (desktop panel) for Linux desktop, with the focus on attractive user interface, being simple and easy to use, and cross-desktop support.

The current version (version 2.x) supports KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland. Other desktop environments will be considered when they run on Wayland and provide sufficient APIs.

Change log:

New features:

• New 3D style: reminiscence of Sun's Project Looking Glass and Apple's Mac OS X Leopard/Lion. This feature comes as default but can be turned on/off from the dock's context menu. Also this only applies to a dock in bottom position of the screen, for aesthetic reasons.

Bugs fixed:

• Fixed a bug where task indicator does not change from 'active' to 'inactive' if the new active window is the dock itself.

GitHub page: https://github.com/dangvd/crystal-dock

GitHub release link: https://github.com/dangvd/crystal-dock/releases/tag/v2.2

KDE Store link: https://store.kde.org/p/2105085

Have a nice weekend!

Hi,

Crystal Remix icon theme v2.3 is out now!

What it is: Crystal Remix is a Crystal icon theme for modern Linux desktop environments, created from KDE 3's Crystal Project and Crystal Clear icon themes (mainly Crystal Project).

Change log:

General:

• Added size 96 (mainly useful for file managers)
• Added some missing application and mimetype icons
• Updated icons for terminal apps

KDE Plasma 6:

• Added some missing icons for system tray and Dolphin's context menu

GitHub page: https://github.com/dangvd/crystal-remix-icon-theme

GitHub release link: https://github.com/dangvd/crystal-remix-icon-theme/releases/tag/v2.3

KDE Store link: https://store.kde.org/p/1226130

Have a nice weekend!

cross-posted from: https://floss.social/users/akademy/statuses/112885751118415045

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When we launch Dolphin, we see a pane on left side listing both mounted and unmounted partitions. If I click on any partition, I can view it but I do not get permission to write to that.

As a regular user who is the only user for this PC, how can I set it up so that it gets mounted on clicking with full permission?

just curious but does anyone know any reasons for why I would want to install plasma-pa over KMix?

To me it seems like KMix should be the default nowadays seeing as it's built on Pipewire rather than plasma-pa with pulse, but maybe I'm missing something that someone might have insight on (besides backwards compatibility which is completely fair and reasonable)

Reason why I'm asking this is due to the archlinux package group plasma opting to include plasma-pa as a default whereas KMix is included in as a default for the group kde-applications

After Plasma 6 update, Dolphin started freezing every time I opened it. It freezes like 10 seconds every time. Doesn't freeze when information pane is closed.

It freezes about 10 seconds either when I click on search button.

I tried it in both Wayland and X11 and it makes no difference?

I think it is not a bug. What should I do?

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Is there any way to speed up the task switcher pop in animation? I find it way too slow. Ideally I'd like it to be as fast as the one on cinnamon as I switched for it to KDE

Removing the color-coding of mimetypes, for accessibility for "color blind" people. (Like me!)

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So... I just set my keyboard in KDE settings to Dell Latitude(i have a dell latitude) and now i can press the volume keys and they work, and pressing fn lets me press F* keys. But, my menu doesn't open. I've set it to alt+f1, alt+volume mute, and meta+a, but no luck. I am on plasma 5.24.7, using trisquel gnu/linux(triskel variant). I am using X11.

thanks for the help!

Hi, I recently had trouble getting Wayland to work, so I was on X11. No w I finally managed to have it autodetect the resolution and not mirror the screen to my second monitor. However, now my PC is extremelly laggy (stutter every ~2 seconds, even the cursor) and I don't have a task bar. Right-clicking on the desktop doesn't do anything and pressing CTRL+ALT+T does make a small Konsole logo jump up and down on the cursor, nothing actually opens up. Moving the mouse into the top left corner does trigger the view of desktops (this post was written while I am currently in this wayland session).

Since I have an nvidia gpu (specifically a 30xx series) I followed the Archwiki, specifically under "Wayland" I set the environment variables under Requirements and then enabled the drm kernel mode setting in /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf and confiormed after a restart that the modeset was in fact 1 via the command under DRM kernel mode setting in the NVIDIA article.

After that I added the rest of the early loading stuff and regenerated the initramfs and rebooted, which is where I am now. I can't find any more info on what to do and would appreciate all help.

(This is a copy-paste from my post on redit)

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Hey all, not sure how I managed this, but over the years I somehow managed to configure different paths which are listed in kf5-config. The for instance the cache path should be /home/matt/.cache, but kf5-config lists it in /mnt/data/matt/home/.cache. I'm sure this was intentional at one point but now i'm trying to fix up my partitions.

So my question is - how do I change the paths listed in kf5-config to where it should be on the root partition (/home/matt/...)?. I'll move the actual data from where it is onto the root partition, I just need to know how to change that paths are configured in kf5-config.

Cheers

kf5-config paths:

cache:
/mnt/data/matt/home/.cache/
config:
/mnt/data/matt/home/.config/:/mnt/data/matt/home/.config/kdedefaults/:/etc/xdg/
data:
/mnt/data/matt/home/.local/share/:/usr/share/:/usr/local/share/
emoticons:
/mnt/data/matt/home/.local/share/emoticons/:/usr/share/emoticons/
exe:
/usr/lib/libexec/:/usr/bin/
html:
/mnt/data/matt/home/.local/share/doc/HTML/:/usr/share/doc/HTML/

etc.. etc..

Edit: I just wanted to add that these paths are different from what is listed in qtpaths:

$ qtpaths --paths CacheLocation
/home/matt/.cache/<APPNAME>
$ qtpaths --paths ConfigLocation
/home/matt/.config:/home/matt/.config/kdedefaults:/etc/xdg

Solved:

Turns out that it expands symlinked directories.

I was inspired by a recent blog post about contributing to KDE, but just found out I'm apparently blocked. Does anyone know how to resolve this?