Questions tagged [kde]
KDE Plasma is a cross-platform desktop environment and software compilation, commonly used on Linux.
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How do I remove KDE from Ubuntu if I decide not to stick with it?
I installed kubuntu-kde4-desktop package on my Ubuntu 9.04 install to give KDE a fair shake since I've always wanted to try it. I'm not done with it yet, but if I decide I want to go back to my tried ...
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Setting and keeping resolution settings for a display that's not autodetected on KDE/Fedora 20
I have a non standard 1280x800 screen which isn't detected correctly by my linux system
The screen is a 1280x800 native, 10.1 inch tablet display with an external controller board. I've got it ...
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No taskbar and can't right click desktop
No idea how this happened. plasmashell was crashing after consuming 6gb memory and I'd tried removing ~/.cache. Shortly after all plasmashell would do is start my desktop background with a wallpaper, ...
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How to remove the Ubuntu Gnome desktop after making the switch to KDE?
This is the opposite of this question. Basically I've been using Ubuntu for a while but decided to give KDE a shot so I went through the process of getting the latest KDE installed. I'm very ...
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How to type unicode characters in KDE?
This answer has tips on how to do it on Gnome or Vim, but these don't work on KDE. This bug shows that KDE don't support the ISO notation with Ctrl+Shift plus the character's hex code. Is there any ...
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How do I restart the plasma shell in KDE5?
I want to restart my plasma desktop/shell without rebooting my machine and was looking for a way to do so. Is there some konsole command or something that would do just that?
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How to set a default desktop environment at system start?
I'm a Linux and KDE user, and recently I started to use also Enlightenment as a substitute Desktop environment when I need a lighter resource consumption.
I use KDM as a display manager, and I need ...
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KDE Konsole to select text and copy to clipboard
In Ubuntu Terminal, drag and drop selection can copy the text selected into clipboard and Shift+Insert to paste. In KDE Konsole, it seems selection doesn't do copy. So either I have to use mouse ...
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How to write to KDE's OSD or notification from console?
How can I write, from a bash script, to KDE's OSD or notification area? I am using KDE 4.5, and basically what I want is my script to report some stuff when it is run. Since I run the script by a ...
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How to set KDE desktop wallpaper from command line?
How do I set the KDE desktop wallpaper (jpg file) from command line (e.g., by a script, started by the user)?
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Disable automated updates (and notifications) in Kde Debian
I am using Kde 4.5 in Debian and I get some notifications after start that I need to update something. How can I disable it (I often don't want to waste bandwidth for such things)?
I am using Debian ...
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firefox aliased/jagged fonts in xfce
I've been using linux mint 7 for a couple of weeks now and I'm pretty happy with it, but I wanted to try out other desktops, e.g. KDE/Xfce
I'm not sure if it's KDE's fault of Xfce's, but firefox's ...
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KDE: how to detect default browser?
How does one detect/get the default browser on KDE? I know that on Gnome one can use "gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command" but what about KDE?
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KDE taskbar missing
I'm not sure what I pressed or clicked but I can no longer see the taskbar in KDE. I'm not finding any desktop switching keys though ALT+Tab still switches to already opened windows. Right-clicking on ...
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How can I disable 'Alt' + mouse default behavior in KDE?
By default, when one holds down Alt and drags with the mouse, it will move a window in KDE/kwin. Is there a way to disable this for a particular application?
I know there's a lot of application ...
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KDE - move app window between monitors via keyboard
I'm looking for a utility that moves app windows between multiple monitors in KDE.
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KDE: disable super_L (windows key) key shortcut as menu launcher
Where can I disable super_L key (windows key) opening KDE menu?
Or where can I change this shortcut?
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Kde equivalent of `gnome-open file` command
There is cool CLI utility an gnome-open file which does an application launch given the file the same way as douburu-clicking on this file in file-manager of gnome.
How should I do the same with kde? ...
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Find and raise a window in KDE4 with shortcut
I was wondering about a possibility to find and raise some window in KDE4 with shortcut. Currently in KDE 4.4 there is a possibility to switch to window from krunner (Alt-F2). Say, I have an open ...
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Clicking a link in Thunderbird opens Firefox instead of the default browser
I am using KDE on Fedora 21 x86_64. I recently switched my default browser from Firefox to Chromium, and this worked out very well...except for Thunderbird, which still insists on attempting to open ...
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How to prevent Alt+Shift from switching keyboard layout before keyup?
Motivation: In an appplication I'm using, Alt+Shift+R is taken up by -- well, never mind what, something app-specific. However, on my Linux system (Kubuntu 12.04 specifically), when I press Alt+Shift ...
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Perform action when clipboard contents match regex
I use the Actions feature of KDE's Klipper utility to run certain commands when I copy something into the clipboard that matches a particular regular expression. Unfortunately, I have to turn on ...
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Monaco font not antialiased in some GTK apps
I have a strange issue with the Monaco font on Ubuntu Karmic. I have recently installed the Monaco font just to see what the hype is all about.
The problem that I am facing now is that is not ...
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can i swap the CTRL and ALT in KDE?
Does anyone know how to swap the Ctrl and Alt keys in KDE?
To me it seem like the Alt key is better positioned to be used more often for stuff like the Ctrl-W or Ctrl-S.
There is no way to press the ...
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Determine correct lastScreen values for panels in plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc?
I have a laptop that I plug into a docking station on a daily basis. And almost every time, I need to modify my plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc, then do a plasma restart kquitapp5 plasmashell &...
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Stop music playback when I lock the screen
Is it possible to run xmms2 stop when I lock the screen with Ctrl+Alt+L?
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Set name of Konsole window
How can one set the name of a Konsole window in KDE? I know that we can change the names of the tabs, and the Konsole window title is preconfigured to use the name of the current tab, but this is not ...
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KDE global shortcuts stopped working. KDED trouble?
I'm running the latest KDE4 and have gotten used to my Yakuake dropdown console.
The problem is that the global shortcuts in KDE stopped working, which basically makes my whole environment unusable ...
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How to have ESC also cancel CAPS if CAPS is enabled?
Is there any way to configure the keyboard so that pressing ESC will also cancel the Capslock feature, if Capslock is enabled? I specifically use Kubuntu Linux with ESC and Caps keys switched (VIM ...
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How to automatically connect WiFi In Mint 18.3 KDE?
I install Linux Mint on a thumb drive for occasional in-home use as a convenient portable system that doesn't affect the native OS of whatever system I use it on. I'm not too worried about security ...
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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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Wrong starting folder in Gnome programs under KDE
I originally installed ubuntu but switched to using kde. Now every gnome programs (e.g. gnome-terminal or gedit) start with ~/Downloads as standard folder. gedit always wants to save in ~/Downloads ...
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Fix KDE permissions after sudo startx
After experiencing some issues with KDE (4.7.1, on Kubuntu 11.10), I tried to restart it. The recommended sudo /etc/init.d/kdm restart stopped it, but it failed to start, instead getting stuck on a ...
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Linux: How to access, resp. use, running processes, especially process bash, which are not attached to a terminal?
This question is related to my question
in KDE under Konsole, when re-opeing a crashed bash shell, how to control what /dev/pts/nn number it gets?
Now again a crash of a shell bash happened by typos.
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in KDE under Konsole, when re-opeing a crashed bash shell, how to control what /dev/pts/nn number it gets?
I use Kubuntu 20.04 and KNOPPIX 9.1, and always the KDE desktop, and under Konsole 15 windows with shell bash in each.
I always have two levels of bash: the first level which automatically is created ...
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firefox - deny access to menus
I'm preparing a presentation. I will use wordpress on localhost for this. Then the visitors will have access to the mouse and see the displayed site.
I'm afraid people can somehow get access to my ...
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Program Sound Manager for KDE
In the Windows operating systems, the sound mixer shows devices and applications. You can mute certain applications, or change their volume separately. Is there a graphical program for KDE that does ...
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How to make KMail to show notifications of new emails only from specific folders?
In my mailbox there are lots of folders. I want to receive a notifications of new letters on a certain folders, but stop nofifications from other folders.
There is a similar question for Thunderbird. ...
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KDE - wrong screen resolution
I just installed Linux Mint 17.2 with KDE. The default screen resolution is 1280x1024. I cannot change it to 1920x1080, which is the resolution of my monitor.
Is this normal? Is there any way to ...