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Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​

@nixCraft I've been fully #Wayland for a couple of years in my :archlinux: :kde: :plasma: #ArchLinux #KDEPlasma - whilst the native KDE app #Spectacle works fine in Wayland, my fav screen capture & editing app, #Ksnip, remains broken. It runs, but cannot actually capture anything, only throw errors.

Unable to show image
No image provided but one was expected.

That's for its limited capture options of Window under cursor, Current screen, & Full screen (All Monitors). My fav mode, Rectangular area, which works so well in X11, is not even offered in Wayland.

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:arch: XeroLinux :kdelight:

Hey y'all

Just a small update letting you know that we will be releasing new ISOs next month with #Gnome edition coming 1st and #KDEPlasma flagship coming much later towards the end of the month once 6.4 lands and everything is tested and working.

We need to make sure that we don't ship a broken system. We are also waiting for Kernel 6.15 to land in #Arch hoping to see if the patch was merged to fix unbootable system for some.

#FOSS#Linux#OpenSource
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Linux Is Best

Today, I learned, KDE Plasma is working on "Karton" a Virtual Machine Manager. 🤯

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

#Kde #KdePlasma #VirtualMachine #Virtualization

KDE Blogs · GSoC 2025 Project Intro: Developing Karton, the KDE Virtual Machine Manager!Hi everyone! I'm Derek Lin, also known as kenoi. I'm a second-year student at the University of Waterloo and really excited to be working on developing Karton, a virtual machine manager, this summer. This project will be a part of the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2025 program and mentored by Harald Sitter, Tobias Fella, and Nicolas Fella. Over the past few months, I've been contributing to the project through some merge requests and I hope to get it to a somewhat polished state towards the end of the program!
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Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Debian 13 is now in hard freeze, MIPS (MIPS64EL) architecture support dropped, RISC-V is promoted as a release architecture:
phoronix.com/news/Debian-13-Ha

Debian installer Trixie RC1 adds rescue support on Btrfs, Linux kernel 6.12, spice-vdagent is installed automatically on QEMU/KVM, Ext2 file system on PPC64EL architecture instead of Ext4, etc.:
phoronix.com/news/Debian-Insta

APT package manager 3.1 released with why/why-not commands, new solver default on Ubuntu, include/exclude options, HTTPS support for dselect, etc.:
phoronix.com/news/Debian-APT-3

KDE Plasma 6.4 will include time-of-day wallpapers, adaptive-sync disabled by default:
phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-T

NixOS 25.05 released with Linux kernel 6.12 LTS and 6.14, GNOME 48, initial COSMIC support, new `nixos-rebuild build-image` sub-command, nixos-rebuild-ng, rewritten nixos-option etc.:
9to5linux.com/nixos-25-05-rele

Ubuntu 25.10 switches Chrony for Network Time Protocol (NTP) for better security:
phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.10

GNOME 50 dropping X11 support causes complications for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/gnome-

Tails 6.15.1 released with fixes for critical Tor browser vulnerabilities:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/5/

Wine 10.8 released with TIFF support, progress on PDB backend, boosted performance:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/5/

New Linux phone upcoming by the Divine D. project:
liliputing.com/divine-d-projec
(Hopefully it will be a relatively cheap phone to replace the aging PinePhone)

Phosh 0.47.0 released with status page for feedback quick settings, mobile data quick settings disabled when SIM is locked, bug fixes:
phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.47.0

(FOSS news in comments)

www.phoronix.comDebian 13 "Trixie" Now In Hard Freeze: MIPS64EL Demoted, RISC-V 64-bit Promoted
#WeeklyNews#News#Linux
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Linux Is Best

I am at that point, where I am just throwing shit at the wall and seeing if anything sticks.

Trying to get a Virtual Keyboard to work with SDDM within NixOS.

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/virtual-keyboard-at-sddm-not-working/64675/6

#NixOS #Nix #Linux #Accessibility #Keyboard #VirtualKeyboard #VmKeyboard #Sddm #Kde #KdePlasma

NixOS Discourse · Virtual Keyboard at SDDM not workingFinal SOLUTION: Someone messages me and told me I don’t need to specify the virtual keyboard with GDM. I’m not a Gnome user, which means I don’t typically use GDM, so that was news to me. It also saved me trouble because I was trying to debug how to keep the keyboard loaded using systemd. This is the final working config. – I am making this as the solution. No error and it works! # ---------------------------------------- # 🖼️ Graphical Desktop. # -------------------------------------...
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Aptivi

KDE Plasma 6.4 lets you use day/night wallpapers!

The upcoming version of KDE Plasma, which will be released in three weeks, brings a very immersive feature that allows you to use a compatible wallpaper as a time-of-day wallpaper.

Learn more

This feature allows your desktop to automatically change the wallpaper to the following versions:

  • Light version of the wallpaper is used in the daytime, beginning from the sunrise to the sunset.
  • Dark version of the wallpaper is used in the nighttime, beginning from the sunset to the sunrise.

You can use your device’s current location for more accurate timing. This increases comfort when you’re using the desktop in both the daytime and in the nighttime.

In order to implement this feature, the settings application had to be changed so that it more clearly indicates that a wallpaper is dynamic. Also, supported wallpapers will show you a two-sided preview presenting you about how the two versions of the same wallpaper will look in both the daytime and in the nighttime.

Ubuntu 24.10 will feature this upcoming version of KDE Plasma.

#KDE#KDEPlasma#KDEPlasma64
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www.jugandoenlinux.com

Valve actualiza SteamOS 3.7.8 con grandes cambios:
- Soporte oficial para Lenovo Legion Go S 🎮
- Se actualiza la base Arch con kernel 6.11 y Mesa
- Actualizado el escritorio Plasma de KDE a 6.2.5 🖱️
- Se puede limitar el porcentaje de carga de la batería. 🔋
- Muchas mejoras y arreglos para el bluetooth.
- Opción para limitar frames en pantallas VRR.

Más detalle en store.steampowered.com/news/ap

store.steampowered.com · Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.7.8: Go Country - Steam NewsThis is the first release of SteamOS 3.7 to the Stable channel. The below notes are for changes since SteamOS 3.6.24. For changes relative to previous 3.7 beta builds see here.This update was re-released with additional client changes.GeneralUpdated to a newer Arch Linux baseUpdated the Linux kernel to 6.11Updated the Mesa graphics driver baseDesktop mode now ships with Plasma 6.2.5Added support for frame limiting with VRR displays (internal and external)Added Battery Charge Limit control to...
#linuxgaming#steamos#steamdeck
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TECC :archlinux:

I recently installed #ArchLinux with #KDEPlasma on an old #LenovoYoga720 for my wife and I’m absolutely blown away. This machine, which was crawling under #Windows10, now feels incredibly fast, fluid, and modern.

Boot times are nearly instant, programms open without delay, and the entire system feels lightweight yet powerful. #KDEPlasma brings a sleek, customizable interface that runs like a dream. It’s like this laptop got a whole new lease on life, seriously, it feels like it’s performing ten times better than before.

If you’ve got an old laptop lying around, don’t toss it, revive it with #GNULinux!

#Linux#LinuxLaptop#LinuxPerformance
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Ramin Honary

@theDuesentrieb I asked for the highest-spec computer the company would buy me (which turned out to be an Apple MacBook M2). I then promptly installed a QEMU-based emulator and installed Debian Linux into the emulator. The emulated disk is fully encrypted. I allow the VM full use of all CPU cores and 100% of all memory and disk space.

If you do get a Apple computer, I highly recommend you buy UTM from the app store, it is by far the most cost-effective option, and works extremely well with Debian Aarch64. Once you install the qemu-guest-agent package onto Linux, the Linux screen resolution will automatically match the #MacBook, copy-paste works seamlessly between #Linux and #MacOS. Desktop environments like #Cinnamon, #Xfce, #Gnome, and #KDEPlasma all allow you to select #HiDPI scaling which allows Linux to take full advantage of the #Apple “retina” display (it looks beautiful). The one and only drawback is that #QEMU cannot use Apple’s hardware multimedia codecs, so it falls back to software codecs, and the CPU just can’t keep up with things like video conferencing, or often even ordinary 720p video playback. I use Mac OS for only multimedia applications and video conferencing. For everything else, I continue to use Linux.

I recommend the bridge networking adapter so you can have two-way network communications between Linux and MacOS, this allows for file transfer between Mac and Linux via rsync. The trade-off is that every time your Apple computer switches computers networks (e.g. between home and office), you must reset the networking services in Linux. If you choose the NAT network option Linux will always have network access directly via the MacOS interface, but you will not be able to easily transfer files between Mac and Linux.

The keyboard is the hardest thing to get used to, mostly that “super” and “alt” are swapped. Be sure to transpose those keys in the #UTM configuration. It is easy to configure the Apple keyboard to (for example) make caps-lock another control key.

UTMUTMSecurely run operating systems on your Mac
#tech#computers
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Alkaris :verified_trans: :verified:

KDE has so many useful shortcuts, your Ctrl+Alt+Del keys doesn't work like it does on Windows, because on Linux it brings up the Logout Screen.

Ctrl+Alt+Backspace will exit your desktop session by killing it, useful if you can't logout or restart if something is frozen.

Kill a non responsive application with Meta+Ctrl+Esc and click the target app window.

Peak Desktop with Meta+D

Toggle Overview with Meta+W

Zoom In with Meta+= or Meta++
Zoom Out with Meta+-

Those last two useful screen magnifier you can use to zoom in on the screen.

Show Clipboard Items at Mouse Position with Meta+V

#kde#kdeplasma
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Mika

Just saw this from a #KDE blog which focused on input methods on #KDEPlasma:

Our project would make multi-touch gestures configurable through System Settings, as well as implement stroke gestures (a.k.a. mouse gestures) for Plasma on Wayland.
We've seen a lot of user requests for this functionality, so I'm happy to work on upstreaming this functionality going forward.
I’m so excited!!! Honestly, take all the time they need - as long as the final product is as capable/configurable as other similar settings on Plasma i.e. key bindings (keyboard shortcuts), etc. then I’m SUPER happy.

As much as I dislike #macOS, their multi-touch gestures makes the most sense compared to all other OS-es including #Windows but especially #Linux, tho specifically Plasma (no idea about #Gnome). To be able to perfectly replicate that on Plasma would be ✨ priceless ✨

🔗 https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/14/input-handling-in-spring-2025
KDE Blogs · Input handling in spring 2025Since Akademy 2024, input handling improvements have been one of three KDE Goals with myself as a co-instigator. You may be wondering why you didn't see a series of dedicated blog posts on this topic, which I had hoped to write. Instead of taking accountability for a longer absence from Planet KDE, here's a quick recap of what's noteworthy and exciting right now.
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