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KDE Plasma is a cross-platform desktop environment and software compilation, commonly used on Linux.

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Cannot create a WPA3 hotspot

OS: Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop: KDE Whenever I try to initialize a hotspot with WPA3 security, I see the following error messages: wpa_supplicant[1281]: Using interface wlp2s0 with hwaddr 7c:76:35:fa:61:35 ...
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Make Windows 10 bootable USB in Kubuntu 20.04

I have been trying to make bootable USB drive to install windows 10 but nothing works. Applications I have used till now: unetbootin - It give error while booting "automatic boot selection in ...
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Is it possible to use templates in Kate (KDE text editor)

I'm using Kate a lot to write bash scripts at work and we have agreed on a certain format (pretty long header with version info and changelog, pretty long comment before main part. Is it possible to ...
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Cannot paste from clipboard in KDE on first try

Ever since I upgraded to Fedora 32 pasting does not work properly in KDE. It copies correctly what I want to be copied, but it will not paste right away. I either have to go to the clipboard applet ...
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Want see all opend windows windows (inclusive icon and name) in task bar of KDE Neon 5.16

i cant find my opened Windows in KDE Desktop in Linux Distro KDE Neon 5.16 (rebased on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS). I simply want to see all open apps on taskbar, all my windows (not grouped or anything ...
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How to disable middle click + drag right?

I'm using KDE Plasma on Ubuntu 18.04 and I have a very annoying shortcut: Middle click + Drag right -> Open a new instance of Konsole. It's annoying because it gets triggered regardless of the ...
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Volume is reset after suspend or hibernate in KDE Plasma

OS: Manjaro (updated on Aug 30,2020) Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.19.4 (Originally Gnome) Sound server: PulseAudio 13.0 Hello! I met a strange problem and didn't find any solutions. The volume of my laptop ...
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KDE: Unknown protocol 'unityhub' even though unityhub does exist

I'm using KDE Neon and have installed Unity Hub via it's AppImage and integrated it with my system. The problem is when I tried to install Unity Editor via UnityHub button on this Download Archive ...
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Keystroke randomly duplicates on Linux Desktop

I have a problem that keystroke randomly repeats in various KDE applications. Environment: Hardware: AMD CPU, Nvidia GPU, laptop OS: Arch Linux kernel: 5.4.55-1-lts (and change to latest: 5.7.12....
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Setup VNC server on ArchLinux with sddm and KDE

I'm trying to expose desktop of my PC in internal network. I would like to expose SDDM and KDE session in there. Surprisingly I was not able to find legit article on Arch wiki. Is it even possible? Or ...
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How can I put back my ping command in english?

I recently add a the japanese language to my system and, from here, my PING command is in japanese : ➜ ping 1.1.1.1 PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1) 56(84) バイトのデータ 64 バイト応答 送信元 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 時間=16....
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Not able to launch any application using a custom shortcut in KDE plasma

This is my first question on this website. I am using arch linux. I recently changed from Gnome desktop environment to KDE Plasma. However, I am not able to launch any application (for eg. Konsole) by ...
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Custom shortcuts (gnome/kde/linux styled) in osx

I have recently changed jobs and they gave me a MacBook to work with. The problem is that I have zero experience with this OS (I have used different linux boxes since I can recall) and I cannot get ...
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Could not find the program 'konsole'

Hi i installed Kali Linux 2020.2, went into the plasma, then I start the program, writes that Could not find the program 'konsole'
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Digikam (KDE) - How to remove all duplicate photos, but keep the reference images?

Though Digikam provides a nice feature of finding duplicate photos, it does not, for what I can see, make it easy to delete duplicates and keep original photos. I hope that the function is somewhere ...
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KDE is slow and crashy from SDDM to KWin to Plasma to Dolphin

After updating my Arch system, everything by KDE started breaking, from SDDM taking almost 50s to start up to compositing issues. I've tried removing ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc ...
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kdiff3 1.8.01 seems completely broken on ubuntu 20.04

the merge menu is incomplete. all the choose A/B/C everywhere, or choose A/B/C for all unresolved ... are missing. the open file dialogue does not show any file at all but only directories. Are these ...
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How can I scroll from keyboard in Konsole?

Is it possible to either create a custom shortcut, or use an existing one, to scroll with a keyboard command in Konsole?
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Changing fonts for GTK3 apps under KDE

I am running KUbuntu 20.04 and changed my default fonts there. The KDE system settings GUI has a button to configure GTK appearance, but this only allows changing the whole theme to another predefined ...
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KDE Recent Documents *only* (Not Locations)

In KDE Plasma 5, the "Recent Documents" item in the Application Menu includes both Recent Documents, and Recent Locations (i.e. shows not only recent documents, but also all the folders I've browsed ...
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is it possible to change distros within your current distro without losing data

the title says it all I want to change my distro to parrot home KDE I'm currently running Kubuntu from the command line possibly as that's the most convient
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Focus window under cursor manually

I have a script where I activate a shortcut after clicking a mouse button, but I need the window under the cursor to be focused for this to work. I tried sending a normal click before the shortcut, ...
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Why can't use mac audio feature when install Kubuntu in VirtualBox on macOS?

Versions I'm using macOS: 10.15.4 VirtualBox: 6.1 Kubuntu: 20.04 I installed Kubuntu and everything works well but I found I can't use audio feature when it's running. If I shutdown it, the audio ...
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How to make window maximum on VirtualBox and how to install KDE on CentOS 8.1?

Installed CentOS 8.1 on VirtualBox 6.1. Have installed Guest Additions(Devices -> Install Guest Additions CD image...) to CentOS, but after reboot, it still can't make maximum size. The second time ...
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How to disable Ctrl+Alt+Left/Right on KDE?

I need Ctrl+Alt+ (Left/Right) to be bound to IntelliJ IDEA but something is preventing the combination to reach IDEA. I searched everywhere but I only found information about Gnome and Ubuntu, I'm ...
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ArchLinux KDE sometimes mouseclick on the touchpad not working

I'm running Arch Linux with KDE Plasma as desktop environment. Sometimes it happens that I suddenly can't use the double tap gesture on the touch-pad to make a mouse click also the two finger gestures ...
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VirtualBox stuck in 800x600 resolution (Arch Linux - KDE Plasma)

Running KDE Plasma on Arch Linux on VirtualBox. The desktop is stuck in 800x600 resolution. If I try to set the resolution inside System Settings - Display Configuration, the window enlarges then ...
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how to use TeamViewer to start multiple DIFFERENT sessions on the same SUSE linux machine?

We have a system running on SLES (Suse Linux Enterprise Server) and I am looking to allow remote users to access the system using TeamViewer where each user starts a new KDE session when they log in. ...
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Slack freezes on incoming message

I have to kill the PID or wait a long time before I can use it again. The following comes up on webapp-console.log as soon as Slack freezes: error: [DESKTOP] 'desktop.notice.shouldPlaySound' is ...
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Reset Plasma 5.8.6 in KDE

Hi I am using Debian 9 (stretch) and KDE plasma 5.8.6, and I would like to completely restore the plasma settings. How can I do that? Previous posts (https://askubuntu.com/questions/109530/how-do-i-...
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Install Gnome on top of KDE

I am running Debian 9 (stretch) with KDE Plasma 5.8.6 and I am having some issues with Plasma. Can I, on top of KDE install Gnome DE and then delete KDE? A beginners question: If I can do it, then my ...
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Plasma launcher stuck: plasmashell bug

I work with Debian 9 (stretch) with KDE (Plasma 5.8.6) and up to now when I opened the application launcher I could search (in the search bar) by typing, anything I wanted. Now there seems to be a ...
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Binding Alt-Shift-. in tmux

I'm trying to bind some key combinations in tmux, this is what I have in ~/.tmux.conf: bind-key -n 'M-S-.' next-window This doesn't work. How can I bind it? I'm running Konsole in KDE Plasma, ...
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How install latest version of baloo on Ubuntu?

I installed Baloo search on Ubuntu 18.04. It gave me version 4:5.44.0-0ubuntu1. Looking for a more recent version I found the kubuntu ppa. That says it has Bakoo version 5.47.0-0ubuntu1~ubuntu18.04~...
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Kubuntu 18.04 KDE Plasma Headset Microphone marked as "unplugged" until manually selected

When connecting a headset with a combined audio+microphone 4 pole connector to my laptop (XPS 15 9570), I cannot get KDE to automatically switch to the headset microphone. When connecting the headset, ...
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Shuffling "Alt"/"windows"/"Alt Gr" on just USB keyboard (and possibly not laptop keyboard)

Due to unfortunate misunderstanding in the label reading, I have ordered and received a Das Keyboard 4... for Mac. Which would have been nice if I didn't use a KDE Neon desktop (which is a KDE-...
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Font of tabs name, menus, pop up dialog isn't able to change, KDE

I've recently updated the Chrome to the 80+ version and noticed it has the default UI font. Before i configured it to a some mono font and it was showed up as needed. Now i set font up to new one ...
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How to do block indentation in kate?

Question is pretty self-explanatory. How to do block indentation in kate (KDE Advanced Text Editor)?
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Where is KDE wallet database/files stored?

I looked everywhere and couldn't find where KDE Wallet information is stored. I would like to back it up but kwallet-query and kwalletcli doesn't seem to be able to export everything. Anyone has any ...
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Yakuake always covers the whole screen

I maximised Yakuake by mistake using shortcuts and now, even if I terminate the program, even if I reset my computer, it's always maximised. If I try minimising with shortcuts, it's not the original ...
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No Brightness control in kde

I just reinstalled my arch. During KDE install, we have multiple ways to install KDE. plasma (install the whole KDE) Plasma-meta(meta pack) Plasma-desktop( it Just provides desktop and nothing else....
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Set default text editor in KDE

I want to change the default text editor in KDE (FWIW: from Kate to code-oss). I know I can go to Settings->File Associations and change it tenths of times :( Is there an easier way to do it?
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KRunner file search out of date, despite baloosearch giving correct results

When searching for files with KDE's KRunner, I am getting outdated results. Calling baloosearch directly gives the expected results, which is strange, since KRunner should be using just that. For ...
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No firmware update with fwupdmgr

I am trying to update my Lenovo Thinkpad T480s' firmware with fwupdmgr on KDE neon 5.18, but it does not update the firmware on reboot. root@mymachine:~# fwupdmgr --version client version: 1.0.9 ...
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Any chance to display focus loss on maximized window in KDE?

I am using KDE on multiple monitors. This makes it possible to have several maximized windows (on different monitors). Unfortunately, KDE designers thought tha maximized window can be only one and ...
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Any chance to display KDE Task Switcher or all or only one attached monitors?

I am using comuter with multiple montiors. Any time I press Alt-Tab, task switcher appears on random monitor. While pressing alt tab it is impossible to understand, which window I am selecting. After ...
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Manually setting KDE default applications without full KDE installation

I use Okular in an XFCE environment (archlinux). How can I set the default browser to use for opening URLs without installing a full KDE configuration panel? As is, it does not use my default browser....
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gtk themes on kde unreadable

I am running Manjaro KDE and today I discovered that my gtk themes aren't working, instead gtk applications tend to have white on white = unreadable. How can I fix this? I have tried setting the env ...
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KDE Connect not working. (Shows error of cannot be paired because it is running an old version of KDE Connect while I'm using latest version

I'm running Arch Linux in my desktop with 4.19.91-1-lts kernel and packages are up to date. I've first installed KDE Connect from pacman repository by using pacman -S kdeconnect and latest version of ...
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KDE panel missing on tigervnc vnc session

I want to gain VNC access to a tigervnc server. Both laptops runs with ArchLinux sddm KDE xorg (not wayland) and it took me a day to get the server running and an Dolphin is opening - just nothing ...
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