Any #CrowTranslate user with #Plasma 6 and Wayland?

Docs say global shortcuts should work,
https://invent.kde.org/office/crow-translate/-/tree/v3.1.0?ref_type=tags#kde
but it definitely doesn't work on my machine; and would definitely be amazing for my #Esperanto learning.

Any clue what I may be doing wrong?

2025, the year I switch from wayland to Xorg.

Why? Because I bought a new screen.
Huh? Well, I don't know either.
Plasma 6 on wayland worked fine with my fullhd-screen. Yesterday, I powered the box down, switched to my new hi(gher)dpi screen, powered it on, got the bios post, boot messages, and a black screen instead of sddm. An hour later I found that sddms wayland support is experimental still, so I switched it to X, and got a black screen when my plasma-wayland session was to start. So, switched to plasma-x11 and everything is fine.
Other compositor (tested sway) are fine.

Don't know if it's nixos or plasma, I'll probably try a live usb later.
So yeah, it's the year 2025 and I'm on X. Well, could be worse, could be the other X.

Something I miss from #Tiling wms/compositors like #i3wm and #sway when I'm on #KDE:

I use #Yakuake on KDE #Plasma to have a terminal that's easily accessible, but stays out of my way when I don't want to see it.

On tiling setups, I use disappearing windows (I forget the actual name of the feature) that will pop up when I hit super+-, appear one at a time, and then disappear.

Yakuake lets you do tiling as well within its window, but I kinda miss the ability to cycle through a bunch of windows very easily. I mean, I've got the keyboard shortcuts set up very nicely, so it's just F12 to make the window appear and disappear, and then control+tab to cycle through tabs or control+pgup/pgdown to jump between panes, but somehow the tiling setup is just a bit easier to do. Less thinking, just super+-. ;)

I don't know if I'll continue to use tiling setup too much longer, though. It's too aggravating to figure out how to get the occasional gnome program to work properly. There's always some kind of fancy library initialization that I fail to get right. It's easier to just use a DE and whittle it down to nearly tiling levels of productivity.

Heya folks! It's sync day, and that means it's time for the weekly Solus roundup! Read all about it on our forums: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/11519-solus-updates-for-week-14-2025

This week we have @kde #Plasma 6.3.4, and @gnome 47.5 going out to our users. If you use either of these desktops, show off your setup in the replies!

#FOSS #Linux #Solus #OpenSource

- Evan

What Makes Plasma More Important Than Blood?

https://www.sahilpopli.com/what-makes-plasma-more-important-than-blood/

This Week in Plasma: polish and stability - KDE Blogs

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/04/05/this-week-in-plasma-polish-and-stability/

New @opensuse #Tumbleweed snapshot 20250403 released!

Packages changed:
*** it's full of changes and improvements, mostly #Plasma by @kde upgrading to 6.3.4
"sudo zypper dup" is your friend

---
Official announcement
https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/message/FEJ67TSANZO7D364ZIUQW27MP4LEFNI6/

Heya folks, we're pushing back the sync a day or two to give more testing time for #KDE #Plasma 6.3.4 and #GNOME 47.5. See you all soon!

#Solus

- Evan

#ViernesDeEscritorio #DesktopFriday
#openSUSE #KDE #Plasma 6.3.4 #Qt 6.9.0
Buen finde

Aquí les va mi captura para el #viernesdeescritorio con #archlinux #plasma 6.3.4 #librewolf #konsole

#Qt 6.9 en #KDE #Plasma

New paper out: „Plasma-induced optically active defects in hexagonal boron nitride“. We show that purely physical argon #plasma treatment is the most promising route for creating optically active #defect #emitters in #hBN by plasma exposure.

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/apl/article/126/4/043103/3332361/Plasma-induced-optically-active-defects-in

Sigh, the impasse continues.

• #Spectacle works fine in #Wayland, but still does not include tabs so that multiple shots can be open simultaneously
• #Ksnip was the premier GUI screenshot in X11 after the demise of #Shutter, via tabs for multiple shots can be open simultaneously, but does not work in Wayland

Bwaaaaah.

#KDE #Plasma

KDE Plasma 6.3.4: Fehlerkorrekturen und Verbesserungen https://fosstopia.de/kde-plasma-6-3-4/ #KDE #KDEPlasma #LinuxDesktop #Plasma #Plasma6.3

For a switch away from everyday use of FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT with KDE Plasma and ZFS boot environments:

― which of these two Linux distros might be best for me?

<https://manjaro.org/>

<https://sparkylinux.org/>

Emphases: easy installation, non-complicated upgrades, GUI.

Root on ZFS, and ZFS boot environments, will be nice, but not essential. If not easily achievable now, I can switch more than once:

– first to Linux, then from one distro to another.

Whatever Linux distros I use: I'll continue with Plasma.

I began toying with SparkyLinux in February 2024. Prior experience with Manjaro was excellent.

@BrodieOnLinux

I'm translating #Cosmic desktop to Dutch and I'm using the translations of #KDEplasma to guide me in the right direction. For that I have Cosmic and #KDE running in a different #tty. I was typing something in Cosmic and suddenly the screenlocker activated because KDE #plasma didnt detect activity... Guess you not supposed to have two desktops running at the same time! #linux #linuxdesktop

KDE Plasma 6.3.4 ist heute erschienen und behebt die viele Fehler!

https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/6/6.3.3-6.3.4/

The Arianna ebook reader Flatpak from Flathub keeps crashing on launch. I replaced with the Fedora Flatpak, which is running fine.