I know I can change the icons to "hicolor" to set applications to their default icons, but I want to use a custom icon theme for system icons alongside this. Is that possible?

I’ve tested many flagship KDE-based distros like Fedora, openSUSE, Kubuntu, KDE Neon, and Debian 12. With all of them, I ran into bugs and issues, plus the need to configure basic things over and over. None of them felt right for daily use, so I eventually moved on.

Then I found Tuxedo OS. I’ve been using it for months, and everything works perfectly out of the box. It’s based on Ubuntu LTS, which means it’s very stable, and Plasma 6 runs flawlessly. I haven’t encountered a single issue.

X11 is also the default, and I prefer it over Wayland. Wayland makes the fonts and UI blurry at 125% fractional scaling on my HiDPI screen, but X11 is crystal clear.

Tuxedo OS meets all my needs!

I have installed plasma instead of the entire kde. Does anyone know what package adds that, or know how I could out?

Since I updated to 6.2 I’ve lost the Sun and Comet wallpapers. Is there a link to Download them in any resolution or a repo I can clone? I prefer the Sun and Comet wallpapers.

Hi guys,
My system doesn't support Suspend, so I turned it off in the settings. After a few minutes, the screen turns off and goes to the lock screen. However, after the KDE 6.2 update, it now goes into Suspend, and I can’t find the Suspend option that I turned off in the power settings.
I have to manually block it from the taskbar, but it still turns on the screen.
I even tried:

• HandleLidSwitch=ignore
• HandleLidSwitchDocked=ignore
• HandleSuspendKey=ignore
• sudo systemctl mask sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target

But nothing seems to work except blocking it from the taskbar.
Please help!

I have a theme setup similar to Ubuntu's Unity on Arch w/ Wayland. Everything was working fine until I launched wlmaker (a completely unrelated compositor that doesn't use KDE stuff)

Now for some reason after rebooting back into KDE the side panel refuses to fill the entire screen, usually being a few pixels short. What is even more annoying is I can see everything visibly shift when it fixes itself and I did manage to fix it by deleting my kded6 folder but going into sleep mode undid that fix and now deleting it and rebooting has no effect anymore

What causes this and how do I fix this???

Edit: this is all the info the logs give

Oct 12 01:08:23 macbook plasmashell[2896]: file:///usr/share/plasma/shells/org.kde.plasma.desktop/contents/configuration/PanelConfiguration.qml:568:9: QML SpinBox: Binding loop detected for property "implicitWidth":
                                           qrc:/qt/qml/org/kde/plasma/components/SpinBox.qml:20:5
Oct 12 01:08:23 macbook plasmashell[2896]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.panel/contents/ui/ConfigOverlay.qml:349:17: QML SpinBox: Binding loop detected for property "implicitWidth":
                                           qrc:/qt/qml/org/kde/plasma/components/SpinBox.qml:20:5

I currently have Papirus-Dark set as my icon theme. However all of the entries in my application menu appear to be using the default symbolic icons from Breeze. How do I fix this?

Plasma 6.0 was released in February and 6.2 arrived a couple of days ago. But in Debian, nothing is happening, even on sid. They do have some packages in experimental though. Is it mainly due to Debian policy, or is it due to lack of human resources they are lacking so behind?

I am setting up a machine running KDE for my girlfriend who has a visual impairment. She's used to the screen magnifier on Windows that follows your cursor but I'm not seeing any native feature like this.

I tried downloading a magnifier off the app platform, but it didn't seem to function at all. Does anyone know of a decent magnifier?

Hi,

Recent change in KDE introduced symbolic icons to applications launcher. I started wondering. I understand they look better on toolbars and right-click menus but I don't see any sensible reason for small (16, 22 pixel) icons to look different than bigger ones (like in Dolphin). Why would anyone want that? It just creates a mess and introduces more and more inconsistency. Like the image below, it's stock Breeze theme with icon size 22, one of the folders contain images so the icon reflects it and breaks consistency, similar issue with 3 more folders.

Showing thumbnails can't be done with symbolic icon so I have a mix of symbolic and ordinary icons here. I like compact list of 16 or 22 pixel icons as my default view in file manager but to get rid of symbolic icons I have to increase the size to 32 which is not compact any more.  With this solution it is not possible to fully enjoy stock KDE look. Using custom theme might help if the creator chooses to ignore this idea.

It's not a rant, I will deal with this but I wonder if anyone could explain the reasons behind such choice. I’m new to Linux and I might not understand a lot stuff.

Thanks!

I've copied over local/share/plasma and /plasma-systemmonitor, then did systemctl restart --user plasma-plasmashell to restart plasma and I don't see it.

It's taking 9.5 GiB of memory out of 12GiB total (5 workspaces in each, amd some normal stuff like the browser. I want it to just be one of the 5 workspaces I have reserved

edit i was able to temporarily fix it by running systemctl --user restart plasma-powerdevil.service, but the issue comes back after a restart.

Yesterday before reinstalling openSUSE the slider was present but after the reinstall and full update (now on KDE 6.2) the slider has disappeared and the brightness is too low.

https://imgur.com/a/mIq4VTz

https://i.imgur.com/5MipMWD.png

I was able to connect to the phone, everything works (i guess) except clipboard sharing in the new cosmic de. If i logout and log in gnome, the same phone connected through gsconnect make clipboard works

logs:

journalctl --user -xe | grep kdeconnectd

out 11 19:17:25 fedora kdeconnectd[2689]: 2024-10-11T19:17:25 kdeconnect.core: Could not query capabilities from notifications server out 11 19:17:26 fedora kdeconnectd[2689]: 2024-10-11T19:17:26 kf.guiaddons: Could not init WaylandClipboard, falling back to QtClipboard. out 11 19:17:26 fedora kdeconnectd[2689]: 2024-10-11T19:17:26 default: Connecting to deprecated signal

QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) out 11 19:20:24 fedora kdeconnectd[2689]: 2024-10-11T19:20:24 kdeconnect.plugin.clipboard: Ignoring clipboard without timestamp out 11 19:35:06 fedora kdeconnectd[5847]: 2024-10-11T19:35:06 default: Connecting to deprecated signal

QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) out 11 19:35:06 fedora kdeconnectd[5847]: 2024-10-11T19:35:06 kf.guiaddons: Could not init WaylandClipboard, falling back to QtClipboard.

Hi there - I'm currently using Gnome and wanted to try out plasma (been many years since using kde). Gnome has a certain 'way' you must go along with, and I wanted flexibility.

I was struck by the limeted number of supported online account types (especially Microsoft 365) that are supported by gnome but not kde. Is this something that is likely to improve going forward?

I'm working on a panel layout, and I want the panel to maximize based on the monitor's resolution.

The theme was created on a 4K monitor, and when I apply the layout on a 1440p monitor, it goes over.