Questions tagged [kde5]
182 questions
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How to disable KDE Wallet?
I'm using Ubuntu Maverick (Gnome), a month ago I updated like usual whenever Update Manager informed me of new updates. The thing that happened is that a program called kdewallet got installed on my machine, and every time I try to do something…
David Weng
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How to send KDE5 desktop notification from a bash script?
I've tried a number of options, none of them worked:
notify-send 'text'
kdialog --passivepopup 'text' 5
qdbus org.kde.knotify /Notify event "event" 'app' "(" ")" 'title' 'text' 'pixmap' '' 5 0
Update: first two options should work, in my case the…
int_ua
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sddm blocks screen with on-screen keyboard in Ubuntu 20.04
I have recently installed KDE 5 (kde-plasma-desktop) on Ubuntu 20.04, and as part of the installation, it asked me to switch the login screen manager to sddm.
When sddm starts (either on boot, or after logging out) it blocks the screen with a large…
dave559
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where should I put my .desktop files in kde plasma?
In the Gnome desktop environment I can create a shortcut to an application by placing the .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications/, like this:
cat > ~/.local/share/applications/vscode.desktop <
opensas
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KDE5 shortcut for moving window to another workspace
How do I set a shortcut for moving a window to another virtual desktop (e.g. ctrl-alt-shift-[arrow] to drag it to an adjacant workspace), in KDE Plasma 5.x? I could not find this in the settings, and searching the web did not help either.
Yatoom
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How to restart KDE 5 interface?
How do I restart KDE5 interface from the command line without having to do a logout?
Three Diag
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akonadi services and mysqld use too much memory in kubuntu 16.04
I recently installed kubuntu 16.04 on my Dell studio xps 1640 that has 8GB of Memory installed. Everything is working fine but Something is really bothering me. After a fresh boot up, when i check the system resources, mysqld occupies about…
Firouziam
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Does anything useful happen during the KDE Plasma5 splash screen load delay? It seems to just waste time
As far as I can tell the startup splashscreen after logging in on Kubuntu with Plasma5 seems to be a pointless busy loop that locks up the user interface for several seconds while nothing is achieved and everyone would be better off disabling it.…
Ozone
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How to assign keyboard shortcut for moving to next virtual desktop in kde plasma 5?
In desktop environments like Unity, Cinnamon, MATE, the combination Ctrl+Alt+←/→ changes the workspace.
How to assign custom keyboard shortcuts in kde plasma 5 to change workspaces (i.e. virtual desktops)?
Archisman Panigrahi
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How do I resize the application launcher / start menu in Kubuntu 20.10?
I have a fresh install of Kubuntu 20.10.
How can I resize the start menu? Because it is gigantic!
Stockfish
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How to use KDE global menu with Firefox?
I would like Firefox to use the global menu on KDE Plasma 5.19 running on X11.
The widget set for both GTK and KDE is Breeze.
I am currently using Kubuntu 20.10, but also have machines running 18.04 and 20.04. Global menu does work on 18.04, but…
xiota
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Can't change language back to English in Kubuntu 19.04
Problem:
In Settings -> Regional Settings, I added language Marathi and Hindi to see how it works and what it translates(I know Marathi, and Hindi). After I rebooted, the language was changed to Marathi. Now, I wanted to revert back to English, as…
Sanmay Joshi
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Plasma 5 keyboard "Alt+1"
I use KDE plasma 5.10.1 .
I use Alt+1 ... Alt+10 to change tabs in web browsers or konsole .
my problem is Alt+1 not working in plasma desktop and i always replace /usr/bin/kglobalaccel5 to /usr/bin/kglobalaccel for fix this problem .
For a long…
mah454
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Why show desktop (with alt tab) in kde renders alternatively two different things?
If I use task switcher to show the desktop, I obtain the first time:
The second time:
And so on further. Why?
jasmines
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Using KDE Connect through Internet
As far as I know, Connect requires to have both PC and smartphone to be in same sub-network. But this is very disapointing for me. Because I have unlimited mobile internet and never use wi-fi at my home.
I'm really new with KDE Connect and I really…
