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.
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/
Thanks @vkc
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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.
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"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...
Newsupdate 02/25 - #Python3.14, #FOSDEM 2025, #GNOME48 Beta, #KDE #Plasma6.3, #openSUSE und #SELinux - #FOCUS_ON: #Linux - #Podcast:
Python 3.14 und KDE Plasma 6.3 erscheinen, während sich der Umfang des kommenden GNOME 48 abzeichnet. Das SELFHTML-Projekt wird 30 Jahre alt und mit RePebble wird einem längst totgesagtem Projekt neues Leben eingehaucht. In der Kernel-Mailingliste entfacht ein Streit über Rust - mit Auswirkungen für das Kernel- und Asahi Linux-Projekt.
KDE Plasma 6.3.2 integriert animiertes WebP in Spectacle
https://linuxnews.de/kde-plasma-6-3-2-integriert-animiertes-webp-in-spectacle/ #kde #plasma6 #kwin #spectacle
For a few years I have enjoyed my #Plantronics RIG 800HD wireless headset.
https://www.riggaming.com/800-pro-series #RIG800HD
I have used them with various Linux distros, including a Chromebook, and they work great. Well, there was a niggle.... occasionally they would cut out, turn off, then come back on. At times it was annoying, but I could never figure out the cause.
Recently I installed #Solus #Plasma6 on the #System76 #Thelio desktop, and I have been having ZERO issues. In fact I truly believe the sound is superior to what I have heard before.
I love music and I am going through a wonderful experience!!
Here is my relevant system details from inxi:
System:
Host: tadhg Kernel: 6.12.12-313.current arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 14.2.0
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.2.5 Distro: Solus 4.7 endurance
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: System76 product: Thelio v: thelio-r1
Mobo: System76 model: Thelio v: thelio-r1 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: System76 v: F61a Z5 date: 04/12/2021
Audio:
Device-6: Plantronics RIG 800HD driver: plantronics,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
type: USB bus-ID: 3-4.4:11
API: ALSA v: k6.12.12-313.current status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: active
Server-2: PulseAudio v: 17.0 status: off (using pipewire-pulse)
#Solus #KDE #plasma6
peter@tadhg ~ $ fastfetch
-``````````` peter@tadhg
`-+/------------.` -----------
.---:mNo---------------. OS: Solus 4.7 Endurance x86_64
.-----yMMMy:---------------. Host: Thelio (thelio-r1)
`------oMMMMMm/----------------` Kernel: Linux 6.12.12-313.current
.------/MMMMMMMN+----------------. Uptime: 1 day, 2 hours, 27 mins
.------/NMMMMMMMMm-+/--------------. Packages: 1052 (eopkg), 26 (flatpak)
`------/NMMMMMMMMMN-:mh/-------------` Shell: bash 5.2.37
.-----/NMMMMMMMMMMM:-+MMd//oso/:-----. Display (LG ULTRAWIDE): 3440x1440 @ 60 Hz (as 2752x1152) in 34" [External]
-----/NMMMMMMMMMMMM+--mMMMh::smMmyo:-- DE: KDE Plasma 6.2.5
----+NMMMMMMMMMMMMMo--yMMMMNo-:yMMMMd/. WM: KWin (Wayland)
.--oMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMy--yMMMMMMh:-yMMMy-` WM Theme: plastik
`-sMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMh--dMMMMMMMd:/Ny+y. Theme: Breeze (Dark) [Qt], Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3/4]
`-/+osyhhdmmNNMMMMMm-/MMMMMMMmh+/ohm+ Icons: breeze-dark [Qt], breeze-dark [GTK2/3/4]
.------------:://+-/++++++oshddys: Font: DejaVu Sans (12pt) [Qt], DejaVu Sans (12pt) [GTK2/3/4]
-hhhhyyyyyyyyyyyhhhhddddhysssso- Cursor: breeze (24px)
`:ossssssyysssssssssssssssso:` Terminal: konsole 24.12.2
`:+ssssssssssssssssssss+- Terminal Font: Monospace (11pt)
`-/+ssssssssssso+/-` CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X (16) @ 3.70 GHz
`.-----..` GPU: AMD Radeon RX 580 Series [Discrete]
Memory: 6.42 GiB / 31.29 GiB (21%)
Swap: 1.00 MiB / 24.00 GiB (0%)
Disk (/): 14.65 GiB / 899.08 GiB (2%) - ext4
Disk (/home): 857.21 GiB / 4.51 TiB (19%) - ext4
Local IP (enp9s0): 192.168.1.120/24
Locale: en_US.utf8
peter@tadhg ~ $
Here's a very geek thing.
Going to reply 5 times with my computers information in Fastfetch / Neofetch:
5 Operating Systems
> #Solus #KDE #Plasma6
> #Solus #Budgie
> #SerpentOS
> #PCLinuxOS #KDE #Plasma5
> #HaikuOS
4 Machines
> #System76 #Thelio Desktop
> #Razer Blade 15 Laptop
> #Alienware #M15x A07 Laptop
> #Alienware #M15x A08 Laptop
#Fastfetch / #Neofetch #Geek
"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/
This KDE Plasma fractional scaling is BADASS.
I'm running at 125% and it looks amazing.
For some reason, LibreWolf seems to get all timestamps wrong by one hour.
My computer is set to Time Zone CET (Berlin) and the clock in my task bar does show the correct time. But Mastodon posts and astronomy sites that show a map of the sky in my location right now are off by 1 hour. Even though they auto-detect my location right.
Since we don't have daylight saving right now, it's not a DST error.
I had this back on Fedora, so it's not a Majaro issue.
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