Could someone running #KDEPlasma on a multi-monitor setup please try to reproduce the bug I just reported to #KDE's bug tracker and report back.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502546
Thanks!
#Plasma #Plasma6
Krohnkite turns KDE Plasma 6 into a Tiling Window Manager!
While I love KDE dearly (
) I must confess to a tiny touch of jealousy regarding Tiling Window Managers [TWMs] like Hyprland, Sway and i3.
On KDE I fight with window placement more than is probably healthy. Open a handful of programs of various window sizes and watch desktop space become tricky to manage. Virtual desktops ease the situation a little but not completely.
Tiling Window Managers' big sell is they do all that fussy placement for you: new windows snap into place while existing windows simply resize to accommodate....automatically. It's a seductive idea. You also get a brace of keyboard shortcuts to control focus or change layout schemes, and so on.
I was looking at Hyprland in particular. Problem is, Hyprland is quite fussy to set up. It involves that old Linux trope: config files and the terminal. Now, this is within my reach, skills-wise. I've learned a lot in the last two years. While undoubtedly my idea of fun It'd be somewhat of a pain and probably time-consuming getting everything the way I want it. I've been dithering yea/nay about trying it for some time.
But then I stumbled on an interesting compromise - Krohnkite!
Github link
Krohnkite is a simple Kwin Script that you load into KDE settings and with the click of a toggle box gives you that TWM magic, no fuss no muss, right there in Plasma 6!
I've been using it for a day now and so far it's really cool. 
If you'd like to try it you'll find it in KDE Settings:
System Settings > Window Management > Kwin Scripts > 
Get New...
There's not much in there so it'll be easy to spot, and it's a tiny download so it takes mere seconds. Then you'll see it listed in Kwin Scripts with a config button for you to play around with. Top tip: to apply changes to Krohnkite, toggle Krohnkite off <apply> then back on again <apply>; you don't need to restart Plasma itself.
Let me know if any of you folks try it!
~U~
#Linux #KDE #Plasma6 #TilingWindowManager #Krohnkite
#FreeBSD #Firefox #Plasma6 #KDE
Not sure why, but Firefox refuses to keep whatever theme I apply to it. Every time I minimize the Firefox's window, the window decoration change back to what I'm showing in this picture. It doesn't matter what I do, or what theme I apply, it always reverts to that. Other than uninstalling and reinstalling it, and removing the Mozilla folder from my .config folder... Do you have any ideas?
#KDE #Plasma6 #Linux #ArchLinux
Just upgraded to Plasma 6.3.4, so far so good. 
KDE Plasma 6.3.4: Fehlerkorrekturen und Verbesserungen https://fosstopia.de/kde-plasma-6-3-4/ #KDE #KDEPlasma #LinuxDesktop #Plasma #Plasma6.3
KDE Plasma 6.3.4 is out!
KDE Plasma 6.3.4, which is a minor version from the 6.3.x series, is out today to fix many crashes related to the desktop and many components. If your desktop is experiencing crashes, you should be able to use KDE without any trouble the next time you update it to the latest version, which is 6.3.4.
According to the mini release notes for this version of Plasma, we have observed the following key changes:
You can see the full changelogs when clicking in the below buttons at the end of the blog. Meanwhile, why not download this version of KDE Plasma to improve your user experience and to eliminate persistent crashes?
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This Week in Plasma brings a massive performance improvement to Spectacles screen recordings, a cleaner login screen for multi-monitor setups, and a less cluttered configuration page for displays.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/29/this-week-in-plasma-zero-vhi-bugs-and-much-more/
This Week in Plasma brings launch menu customizations, better screen recordings, and improvements to Plasma's calculator.
We have simplified KMenuEdit allowing you to customize your launch menu with ease, improved the quality of full-screen recordings with Spectacle, set the "Dim Screen for Administrator Mode" to be switched on by default, and enhanced the accessibility and keyboard navigation of Plasma's Calculator.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/22/this-week-in-plasma-6.4-improvements/
Apparently they've decided to change it again to something like this. It's better than how it is today, but I still prefer how it used to look like.
Das #KDE-Projekt hat #KDE #Plasma6.3.3 veröffentlicht. Dieses dritte Wartungsupdate behebt zahlreiche Fehler und bringt Verbesserungen.
Nur zwei Wochen nach Version 6.3.2 bringt Plasma 6.3.3 eine bessere Akkuladesteuerung für mehr Geräte. Die Farbdarstellung bei aktivierter Nachtlichtfunktion auf Intel-GPUs wurde optimiert. Zudem gibt es eine Warnung, wenn die Energieverwaltung deaktiviert wird. LibreOffice Writer setzt beim Kopieren keine Anker-Links mehr ein.
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/
La verdad es que #asahi en un macbook es una delicia de Linux. #fedora41, #plasma6.3... va fino fino fino. Pero lo de siempre, necesitamos mas apps para arm en Linux. Y ya no solo para #asahi, para desarrollo en móviles en general, también. Y para toda la hornada de nuevos ordenadores que parece que vienen con arm, pues también. Hacen falta mas apps en arm para Linux.
Thanks @vkc
<Start/tip nobody asked for>
For those who want something close to Debian testing, #siduction (by default #KDE #Plasma6) might be worth a try. It is unstable (Codename: Sid), thus before testing. This means it is tested but, it is certainly not as stable as testing.
But here is the twist. Use it with #btrfs or #timeshift and #ext4 to have efficient tools for a rollback once it breaks (and it will break sporadically) and you should be good.
<End/tip nobody asked for>
"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/
#Linux #CoffeeTalk 02/2025 - #fosstopia:
Im Februar #LinuxCoffeeTalk behandelt verschiedene Themen wie z.B. das neue Release Modell bei #Thunderbird, Zukunftspläne von #Fedora, wie ein #LinuxKernel #Patch den Stromverbrauch senkt, dass #Debian13 mit #Gnome #Shell48 kommen wird und #KDE #Plasma6.3, sowie die beiden darauffolgenden kleineren Point-Releases. Auch sprechen wir über die Probleme bei der Veröffentlichung von #Ubuntu24.04.2, Streitereien zwischen #Fedora...
