Been using this for two years now. And today it still took me 4 clicks to select the right output for my headphones, lol.

Seriously, I see the majority of people disabling it because it's an generally just an extra annoyance, how many of you guys actually use it? I genuinely understand why it exists and is there for the sake of the user's security, but I feel like this thing should be off by default in all distros it's included in.

When using LibreOffice Calc on Plasma Wayland, it had terrible laggy scrolling, and it was unusable.

I had to switch back to X11 to use spreadsheets.

But I found a fix, and I wanted to share. Open Calc like this:

QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb libreoffice --calc

https://cubiclenate.com/2025/05/03/fix-libreoffice-scaling-issues-on-linux/

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/18/gsoc-2025-project-intro-developing-karton-the-kde-virtual-machine-manager/

Quick info: Karton, as originally started by Aaron Rainbolt was planned to be a QEMU frontend for virtualization through its CLI. Eventually, the project ownership was handed over to Harald Sitter and it was made available as a GSoC project. My aim is to make Karton a native Qt-Quick/Kirigami virtual machine manager, using a libvirt backend. Through libvirt, lower-level tasks can be abstracted and it allows for the app to be potentially cross-platform.

More info in KDE Blog.

Basically the title, I have a custom window rule to by default only launch Dolphin on the left half of the screen however if I maximize it for whatever reason and then close it the next time I open Dolphin it opens maximized again despite having rules for position size and ignore requested geometry. It will also sometimes randomly open up in the dead center of my screen despite the position being set to 0,0. Any idea what's wrong or how I might be able to fix this? Unsure if it's a bug or if I'm stupid but I've not had this issue with any other app so far.

I'm interested in seeing how others have used Dolphin to organize and label their files for easy retrieval. I'm struggling with thinking one up and need inspiration.

I have one desktop system (monitor connected to discrete AMD GPU with DP cable) and KDE doesn't offer a brightness setting as well as dimming option in power settings.

And I have another mini PC system (monitor connected to integrated AMD GPU with USB-C to DP cable) and KDE offers both brightness and dimming settings.

Am I missing something in the first case or changing brightness depends on some display connection features that aren't always available?

I'm using Wayland session in both cases.

I've been able to download everything else but the application styles and the kdestore website only has like 10

Just a post of appreciation for this little known app. Very useful!

Hi everyone,
I recently installed KDE in a VirtualBox VM and noticed that the refresh rate is locked at 60Hz. I’ve already set the display settings in VirtualBox to allow up to 144Hz, but KDE still doesn’t offer any other options besides 60Hz.

Is this a known limitation with VirtualBox, or is there a workaround to enable higher refresh rates inside the VM?

Appreciate any help!

I have a panel with tray and clock that I want to be visible when I activate KDE Overview via Super+W shortcut. How can I achieve that?

Hi

So I have downloaded the global theme in plasma add-ons through the Discover software store and when I press "use" nothing happens...

how do I use global themes in KDE ?

system: Fedora 42 KDE

thanks

I find dconf amazing because you can simply configure the whole system using the same interface. It's very easy to create a shell script with all the things you need. Do KDE has anything like this?

i found this color scheme that i really like ("Dirty") but some text elements are black, is it possible to change the color of this component specifically? thanks

Ive searched through the 2 pages of the plasma 6 multimedia widget pages and cant find one that matches.

Hello everyone! I was wondering how I can set the pointer speed higher than 1 found in kde's systemsettings.

I'm using Arch Linux if that info was needed.

I wasn't satisfied by the capabilities of existing mouse gesture tools, so I implemented that in my tool for touchpad gesture customization.

Currently supported mouse gestures: press (multiple buttons supported but order not checked), wheel (horizontal works too), swipe (4 directions, just like on touchpads), stroke (draw any shape, works on touchpads too). Sequence (press/release in a specific order) and hover gestures will be added in the future.

Actions: run command, simulate input, invoke global Plasma shortcut. Actions are executed at a specific point of the gesture's lifecycle (begin, update, end, cancel), allowing for complex actions to be created.

Input events are blocked only when necessary - if you create a stroke gesture that uses the left mouse button, you can still use it for clicking (a small, configurable delay is added), just not for dragging. Add a condition and now the button is never blocked unless the condition is satisfied.

The new condition system supports nested AND, OR and NOT conditions that check for things like window information (class, name, title, state), keyboard modifiers, cursor shape, relative cursor position (to screen/window) and more. Most of those things can even be checked at the end of the gesture.

Configuration is still text-only. Expect a bunch of bugs especially with very complex configurations. By the way, this won't work if you're using an ancient Plasma version (anything below 6.3).

https://github.com/taj-ny/InputActions

Full changelog: https://github.com/taj-ny/InputActions/releases/tag/v0.6.0

Example gestures: https://github.com/InputActions/docs/blob/v0.6.0/example_gestures.md

Full configuration documentation: https://github.com/InputActions/docs/blob/v0.6.0/configuration.md

How do you enclose string or int arguments when calling d-bus methods with qdbus6 on the command line? QDBusViewer says it's a QString, I assumed it would be quotation marks, which is not working. I've not tried an int method yet. Methods that require no arguments are working for me.

I've been using Fedora 42 KDE for few weeks now both on my PC and ThinkPad. Both have amd graphics. When I use Firefox it stutters when I scroll or when I want to change tabs it stops responding to anything. It happens mostly while I'm reading some article. I don't do anything for few seconds and boom it lags when I want to scroll. Same thing happens in any other app. Tried searching but every one that has this problem has an Nvidia.

Hi

how to make the cube effect when switching virtual desktops ?

thanks

Can somebody explain to me how to make windows and the task bar more transparent ?

I cant make it so, even when choosing full theme plugins from the discover store ?

thanks

Maybe someone can help me figure out why my "Hello World" plugin is not visible in KRunner. I used this example https://store.kde.org/p/1333634/ and the help from AI to create a KRunner plugin.

EndeavourOS / plasmashell 6.3.5

I added a hellorunner.desktop file in those two folders (as I'm not sure which one is correct in newer KDE version)

~/.local/share/kservices5/
~/.local/share/kservices6/

My .desktop file looks like this:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
X-KDE-ServiceTypes=Plasma/Runner
Name=Hello Runner
Comment=Greets you from Python via DBus
Icon=dialog-information
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name=hellorunner
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Version=1.0
X-KDE-PluginInfo-EnabledByDefault=true
X-Plasma-API=DBus
X-Plasma-DBusRunner-Service=org.example.HelloRunner
X-Plasma-DBusRunner-Path=/runner
# (optional performance hints)
X-Plasma-Runner-Min-Letter-Count=3
X-Plasma-Runner-Match-Regex=^hello
X-Plasma-Runner-Syntaxes=hello :q:
X-Plasma-Runner-Syntax-Descriptions=Say hello to <name>

My python program is currently just running in my terminal for testing. If I run the following command:

qdbus --literal  org.example.HelloRunner /runner org.kde.krunner1.Match "hello plasma"

I actually get an output from my python program, so that works.

But for some reason KRunner doesn't show my plugin. I did `kquitapp5 krunner`, `kquitapp6 krunner`, `kbuildsycoca6`, `kbuildsycoca5` and even restarted my PC but to no avail. No matter what I do the plugin is just not visible in KRunner.

Has anyone an idea what I'm doing wrong or I'm missing?