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Plasma 5.27.8 Microsoft keyboard switch expression key to right ctrl
I have a Microsoft Designer Compact Keyboard. I recently installed Kubuntu and wanted to use the "expression key" key as a right ctrl. In windows it was a simple solution, changing the key ...
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Kubuntu not shutting down
I just built a workstation that is running Kubuntu 23.10 (Kubuntu is basically Ubuntu + KDE Plasma desktop) with the 6.5.0-14-generic kernel.
Specs: ASUS Pro WS WRX80e-sage SE Wifi ii motherboard; ...
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How to apply same settings for Yakuake and Konsole flatpak?
I attempted to install Yakuake and Konsole using Flatpak due to issues with the default installation, which produced garbled output and occasional blank lines, resulting in inconsistency. After ...
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[kubuntu]Two-line title for taskbar windows
Sorry for my English.
I am using Kubuntu 20.04.
After a recent update, the taskbar windows titles were displayed in 2 lines as in the screenshot below:
This is convenient for me. But after another (...
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.desktop files for packages installed using Nix are broken
I've recently installed Filezilla and Keepass using Nix on Kubuntu 22.10 and symlinked my ~/.nix-profile/share/applications to /usr/share/applications, so that the apps appear in the application menu.
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Kubuntu freezing for no apparent reason - xdg-desktop-portal-kde[2594]
Kubuntu is crashing on seemingly random occasions about once a week.
After a crash
journalctl -b -1 -e
shows the following events:
xdg-desktop-portal-kde[2594]: xdp-kde-background: GetAppState called:...
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Kde plasma freezes unexpectedly
I have Kubuntu 22.04.2 LTS. Last few weeks KDE started to 'freeze' occasionally. Is this a known issue? Is there any way how I can gracefully close/restart just the UI from terminal?
But most ...
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connect to public Wifi with Kubuntu
When I want to log into a public Wifi with my Android phone, I get a notification to register for this Wifi, then it opens my default browser, where I have to agree to the terms of service.
If I try ...
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Deleted nvidia drivers and reinstalled, now plasma wont open
For some silly reason I did sudo apt-get remove nvidia-* cuda-*
Reinstalled the bash script from vnidias website for new drivers
Rebooted
Now kde plasma wont open
If I try kstart5 plasmashell i get ...
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Changed name of user, but File Manager always open to home dir of old username
Ubuntu KDE 22.04.1 (Kubuntu)
I changed a user's name from john to dave. I did so using
sudo usermod -l dave -m -d /home/dave john
After making the change, I restarted the machine. At first glance, ...
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Why does KDE feel extremely slow on my PC?
I've tried reading a lot about this issue but can not figure out why kde must be extremely slow, slower than windows on my PC. I use a laptop with 8th gen i5, 8gb ram and HDD(No SSD) and I am running ...
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how to restore default kde kwin on cmd?
yesterday I restarted my Kubuntu 22.04 machine and now I have a problem. Normaly my login screen looks like this:
I am not 100% sure, but I changed nothing after installation, so i think its kwin. ...
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Double-click JavaScript files in KDE Dolphin and open in editor instead of trying to execute
I've been searching for an embarassingly long time without finding a solution for this. Having to right-click files all day would be an exceedingly miserable experience. Is there any way to fix this?
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In KDE, can one use 'Save session' to restore, upon reboot, an application that runs under Wine?
I am using Kubuntu 20.04. When I manually save the session (KDE Menu -> Leave -> Save session), some applications are restored upon reboot, and some aren't. For example, PDF-XChange Editor, ...
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How to configure KDE start menu to pop when pressing "Meta" key
For an unknown reason the shortcut to display the desktop menu by pressing the windows key (aka. meta )⊞ on the keyboard is not working anymore on KDE desktop.
So of course I can click on it or assign ...
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