kde May 2021

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36 discussions

How to start dead plasmashell on a set tty
by Robin Laing 26 May '21

26 May '21

Hello, Fedora 33 still and have an issue. My plasmashell crashed. It isn't running and I have my open apps and a black background. Right click does nothing and there is no menu bar. Is there a way to restart the plasmashell from a tty and attach it to the running tty or is there a clean way to close off the account from a different terminal? I cannot just shut the computer down as there are some very long processes running in a different account. Just before the crash, plasmashell was running at 100% on a core. Robin

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How to change login background / login image
by sbob 26 May '21

26 May '21

Hi all; I just installed Fedora 34, I am using the xorg option when I login to KDE. Is there a way to replace the Fedora login image with one of my own? Thanks in advance

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switch off plymouth and save precious time every bootup
by L 5 26 May '21

26 May '21

on ask.fedora the lines are given. works like a charm !

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Broken Plasma task bar
by Temlakos 26 May '21

26 May '21

Everyone: Ever since the latest massive kde5 update (Saturday 8 May 2021), I have not been able to use the task bar to switch between open windows - and sometimes not even to start certain applications that have taskbar icons. Anything in the System Tray is all right - like the dnfdragora update icon, the clipboard, the new-device icon, or the volume icon. But anything for an open window? Forget it. Every time I click on such an object, the computer pauses for about ten or fifteen seconds, during which it accepts no input from mouse or keyboard - and then blanks the screen, abruptly closes all open windows, and restarts the session. Most of the time the session is all right, but not always - in which case I restart the machine. It's not the kernel. I've tried this with all three versions of the kernel I now have on board. (They're all three F34 builds by now.) It's one or more of the applications that are part of KDE Plasma. But I despair of telling which one. That update had 185 programs in it, and only four of them are referable to the kernel. I can always use the Alt-Tab trick to browse open windows to get to any open window I want. I can always start most programs through the Applications Menu; that icon works. I /think/ I can start one instance of Dolphin - but starting a new instance requires the task bar, so that's out. The only way to open two instances of Dolphin is to connect an external device, thus giving me an excuse to open that device in Dolphin and then switch views. (And another thing: movement and copying from one Dolphin instance to another is also broken. I have to use the clipboard as an intermediate step. Otherwise Dolphin complains that it /can't read/ what I'm trying to move or copy.) In other news, my bug reporting system is broken and won't report anything, and the KDE Daemon keeps crashing at the beginning of every session - though I can't tell whether I'm losing anything by that. Has anyone else noticed this issue? Can someone having an intact reporting system, or an upstream channel, try to report this? Thanks in advance. Temlakos

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F34 Live KDE Hangs on Boot
by Christopher Ross 26 May '21

26 May '21

As F32 is going end-of-life, and having skipped F33 because of apparent compatibility issues with the Fedora KDE Spin, I tried a clean install of Fedora 34. Booting from a USB of /Fedora-KDE-Live-x86_64-34-1.2.iso/ my computer just hangs at the point it tries to start the desktop. I get a black screen with a mouse cursor. Moving the mouse does not move the cursor, the keyboard is unresponsive, the only way out I have found is to power cycle the machine. I tried several times before giving up, settling for upgrading my existing F32 installation with DNF dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=34 --allowerasing dnf system-upgrade reboot That has worked as expected, although the filesystem is still ext4 of course, not the new BTRFS. Regards, Chris R.

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[Fedocal] Reminder meeting : KDE SIG
by ngompa＠fedoraproject.org 23 May '21

23 May '21

Dear all, You are kindly invited to the meeting: KDE SIG on 2021-05-24 from 13:00:00 to 14:00:00 US/Eastern At https://meet.kde.org/b/ale-swq-39j The meeting will be about: Regular meeting for the KDE SIG Current Topics: https://pagure.io/fedora-kde/SIG/issues?status=Open&tags=meeting More information available at: [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIG… Source: https://calendar.fedoraproject.org//meeting/9876/

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[Fedocal] Reminder meeting : KDE SIG
by ngompa＠fedoraproject.org 23 May '21

23 May '21

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F34 KDE startup login task does not run
by Barry Scott 23 May '21

23 May '21

I have been using a login task for a number of years with KDE. After the upgrade to F34 KDE is no longer running my login script. I added some logging to the script to leave evidence that it has run and no logs are recorded. I tried deleting the existing entry in System Settings/Startup and Shutdown/autostart then I added the script back in. But that did not work. Is there something special I need to do to make this work? Is there a log somewhere that I can check for errors? Barry

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F34 Dolphin Downloads folder
by Christopher Ross 18 May '21

18 May '21

In F34 Dolphin has changed so that the "Downloads" folder is divided into sections by horizontal lines. How can I turn this feature off and have it displayed like any other folder? I can't find that in settings. Many thanks, Chris R.

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Shade not working on F34
by Christopher Ross 18 May '21

18 May '21

Today I updated F32->F34 I have KDE configured so double clicking on a window title bar shades the window instead of maximising it. This used to be the KDE default, years ago, until it was changed to follow MS's changes to Windows. Anyway, I now find that this works for some windows (e.g. thunderbird) but not others (e.g. dolphin). Right clicking on the title bar of KDE apps such as Dolphin I find that "More actions => shade" is greyed out. I've checked the settings, rebooted and all that good stuff. How do I get back this feature which has been a staple of the KDE desktop for probably 20 years? Many thanks, Chris R.

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