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how to run script after login and after logging into locked session
There is espanso tool, which has some issue on wayland, which needs to run espanso restart every time when user logs into fresh session or log into locked session.
Espanso itself starts via systemd ...
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dolphin ftp: "Could not connect to localhost"
Operating System: Kubuntu 24.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.12
Qt Version: 5.15.13
Graphics Platform: X11
I'm unable to connect to a remote FTP server using dolphin or krusader. When I try, I get "...
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KDE cannot open any directory / file on desktop after installing gimp-help-uk
After setting up a new installation I've encountered a problem with only files on desktop not opening when being clicked (either with one or double-click).
I've traced the issue and sharing the ...
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Can not set default jpg image viewer to gwenview in kubuntu
I am running kubuntu 24.04. And have gnome installed. Right now, in KDE session, gnome image viewer is the default jpg (jpeg) image viewer. I tried to set file associations in system settings and I ...
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How to set kubuntu panel to a light color?
I am running kubuntu 24.04. How to make panel a light color? The default kubuntu theme makes the panel dark color. I tried the Breeze theme which should be a light theme, but the panel color is still ...
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KDE (automatic?) upscaling on a high resolution screen
Coming from Gnome > Unity > KDE.
I took the opportunity of the upgrade to 24.04 to try KDE. And I'm not disappointed!
There's just one thing that bothers me:
Having a screen resolution of ...
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What are the white square artifacts in the corners of KDE gui elements?
I run Ubuntu Studio 24.04, with X11 and an nVidia GTX 1080Ti graphics card.
The desktop is the default KDE Plasma that came with the installation.
In selected menus, buttons, text-input fields and ...
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Snap apps not showing in KDE menu
I just installed Kubuntu 24.04 on a new machine. Everything runs fine but snap apps do not show up in KDE menus (and are not selectable for default applications, which is, in the case of Firefox, very ...
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KDE Plasma 5. GUI elements lag terribly after large compiles. Lag is so bad the computer must be rebooted with a script
Every time I compile a model in Simulink, the GUI elements of the "OS" GUI (roughly KDE Plasma elements) will begin to lag terribly, making the computer unusable. The lagging persists until ...
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KDE Plasma 5.27.8 Taskbar Freeze
I am running into a problem where my KDE Plasma taskbar (example pictured below) freezes randomly every so often.
The only way to unfreeze the taskbar (and get it to render in a current state) was ...
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What is the bar on the left showing in Konsole?
I mean this thing:
This is not the scrollbar (which is on the other side of the window). It seems to show the output of the last command run, but if I scroll back it seems to show "random" ...
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Laptop mute button LED
I am using Kubuntu 23.04, and I cannot seem to get the mute button LED (F6) to work. Mute works, the LED does not. My audio card is ALC236, HP laptop.
aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **...
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KDE custom menu action on directories with whitespaces in the name
I created a script that takes different directories paths to merge the files inside them into one directory. I would exec this scrict by custom Kde-Dolphin action menu, so I created this .desktop file:...
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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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How to detect with bash that the cursor is on the title bar (Wayland)
I am trying to detect whether the mouse cursor is over the title bar of a window or not. I was able to achieve this in X11 using the commands listed in this Ask Ubuntu question, but these commands do ...