Questions tagged [kde]
KDE (K Desktop Environment) is a Qt-based desktop environment as well as a suite of cross-platform desktop applications. Its latest desktop environment is KDE Plasma 5.
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Kubuntu can't connect to WIFI
First of all, I would like to say that I have searched and tried everything suggested and still having this problem. I am unable to connect to any wifi available, I have tried my home wifi and my ...
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KDE distorted tooltips
I have Kububtu 18.04 and suddenly I found distortion in tooltips, for example, the quick launcher [ALT + Space] looks like below:
Also tooltips in other applications such as Firefox, Vivaldi looks ...
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How to enable automatic login in KDE from the command line
I received today a new laptop with face recognition. I enabled this for logging into KDE. However, my face is not being detected correctly and I cannot log into the system, since due to a bug, I ...
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GTK programs not translated on KDE
When i install a GTK program its in default English, But my whole system is in Polish. And i do know for a fact that the things i want to use on GTK have a Polish translation.
$ locale
LANG=pl_PL.UTF-...
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Login to desktop environment only for some users
I have a system with Kubuntu on it and two different desktop environments.
Is it possible to restrict the login for one of the two environments for a special user group? Like users of the group ...
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KDE Wallet & Keychain
How do I fix it so that I am not asked for my KDE Wallet and Keychain passwords every time that I reboot. I am using Kubuntu 18.04 with the latest updates.
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Kubuntu 18.04 can't set default web browser
Links in Telegram have been opening random apps (image viewer, Calibre, etc), so I checked System Settings > Applications > Default Applications > Web Browser.
Open URLs "in an application based on ...
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Almost every Chrome action opens a dialog box that says "Allow opening file? Allow snap "chromium" to open file "/home/iii/Downloads"?"
On a fresh Ubuntu install, I keep getting the following dialog pop up. Can anyone tell me how to turn it off?
Allow opening file?
Allow snap "chromium" to open file "/home/iii/Downloads"?
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Running Tux Typing in window
How can I run Tux Typing on Ubuntu 15.04 in window mode? I've dual screen and by default it runs on both screens, which makes it hard to use.
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AMD Ryzen 3200G (Picasso) APU Drivers
I am planning on switch my main OS back from Windows 10, Completely fed up with sfc/scans and repeatedly having BSOD issues. Never a hardware failure, constantly corrupt windows files.
Since I am ...
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How to automatically save at shutdown and restore Okular / KDE sessions in Ubuntu?
When I reopen Okular, I want to have the same windows / tabs as when I last closed it, usually at system shutdown / startup.
Is that possible in Ubuntu (not Kubuntu, running the standard desktop). 15....
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KDE Application Platform update issue
Peace. Lately I have a persistent KDE Application Platform update prompt, that cannot be dismissed.
I'm unsure how to debug this. My Google searches on the topic point to some flatpak types of ...
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weird screen glitches in KDE
I've installed KDE on lubuntu 19.04
and i have weird glitches "things appear and disappear randomly"
this is a video showing that glitch
https://youtu.be/hzWpQg9foRY
what I've tried:
changing ...
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Whole word selection keyboard shortcut
I'm using KDE and I know I can double-click any word anywhere to select it, but I'm wondering if I could set up a keyboard shortcut with this functionality in Settings->Shortcuts (I don't know what to ...
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How to go back from dolphin file manager to nautilus on Ubuntu 18.04.03
Currently, find my sweet spot between gnome and KDE on ubuntu. Right now I've messed up, KDE icon pack is not supported on Wayland and dolphin file manager in default because I tried to switch from ...
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Keyboard switcher in Kubuntu, show language instead of country?
Kubuntu 19.10
I have two different keyboard layouts enabled, for the two languages I type in.
On the KDE panel, there is an icon for a keyboard switcher. I see options for it to show country flag, ...
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Why does Kubuntu show an update that apparently doesn't exist? / Why is my update notification incorrect?
In the Notification area of the desktop we get a notification about an available update but opening Discover or even using apt or apt-get from the command line shows that the system is up to date.
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XUbuntu 17.04 - Install KDE without breaking Xfce config files
How to install KDE Plasma and all required widget but without installing the whole KDE desktop environment?
I tried installing kubuntu-desktop but it broke my Xfce config (e.g. all icons in Xfce got ...
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Notifications wrongly positioned in my KDE+i3wm setup
I am observing a weird behavior on my KDE+i3wm setup.
The issue
The issue is with the positioning of the notifications. Even though I have configured the notifications to appear near the panel. They ...
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How to make i3 contain "Always on top windows" in i3+KDE setup?
The issue
The Plasma "Add Widget" window is always on top, and due to this i3wm is unable to tile it. Also, since it is outside i3's management, hence I can't focus on it as well, which prohibits me ...
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How do I get the calculator button on my Microsoft Keyboard to work in Kubuntu 18.04?
So I have tried looking through the shortcuts menu and I tried installing the Gnome Calculator and I still can't get it to work. I'm new to Kubuntu and I'm still learning how it works. Any help would ...
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NTFS partition resize taking an excessively long time, what can I do?
On a 3TB Seagate Barracuda HDD, I had some free space which I wanted to allocate back to an NTFS partition. Using KDE Partition Manager I attempted to do so, and it's currently been running for over ...
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Ubuntu Studio 15.10 - icons not appearing in Kdenlive
I get no icons in the toolbars of Kdenlive in Ubuntu Studio 15.10. There are two of them, the usual one below the menu bar (New, Open, Save, Undo, Redo, Copy, Paste) and the Render (not a button, only ...
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How to have the "close", "maximize" and "minimize" buttons on the left in google-chrome in kde
I would like to achieve what I was able to do in Ubuntu.
I've now switched to KDE and would like to have the buttons on the left hand side.
I have already set it for the "native" windows and they ...
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Unintended install and default to Dolphin File Manager on Ubuntu 18.04.03 (gnome)?
I recently updated a system running Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04. The user just asked me a question involving a "different" file manager and I noticed that, instead of the legacy gnome file manager, the ...
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How to know what drivers and video card am I using?
I am running KDE Neon, there isnt an app called software and updates like there is in ubuntu. How do I know that im running not the open source driver and actually using my gpu?
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screenfetch and neofetch shows diffirent GPU for the same system
Here are the two outputs of screenfetch and neofetch for my Kubuntu 18.04 running on Toshiba Satellite L850 Laptop. They show two different GPUs. Why does it do that?
screenfetch
qt.svg: link ...
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How to customize window and panel shadow in KDE
I am satisfying with my theme, but I need to change the color of shadows for windows and panels. I tried to search for it in the settings and Kvantum but with no success.
The theme use Kvantum ...
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Change Kubuntu desktop icon font to bold
I have kubuntu18.04 and I need to know how to change the desktop icons fonts to bold:
I have tried to find any css files like those in Xfce or Gnome to modify the desktop icons font style but I could ...
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Installation: No EFI System Partition was found
The old Kubuntu distro did not start anymore (or only in emergency mode)
Dual boot partitions were taken over manually as they were, leaving bootloader unchanged on /dev/sda during installation. Then ...
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Kubuntu 19.04 doesn't open "4K Video Downloader" normally
I have installed the program 4K Video Downloader on Kubuntu 19.04 and the .deb package seems to be OK, as shown on the picture below.
But when I search for the program on Kubuntu menu and click to ...
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Desktop fails to start, stuck in a login loop - Kubuntu 18.04
As the title suggests, I'm stuck in a login loop. I've tried the other suggestions askubuntu gave me, to no avail. My system and all software is up to date (as of Tuesday Jan 22). Can't tell if this ...
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Kile editor on Ubuntu 18.04 is not working properly
When I execute
$ kile &
from the terminal then I get the following message.
Invalid Context= "stock" line for icon theme: "/usr/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-dark/stock/16/"
Invalid Context= "stock"...
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Some system tray widgets randomly disappear for a while on Kubuntu 18.04
Recently I have been using Kubuntu 18.04 which uses KDE Plasma 5.12.9.
I noticed that some widgets in the system tray (to be specific, input method and ktorrent widgets) disappear for a period of ...
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Multi monitor problem, opening programs and dialogs
I've recently made the switch to Ubuntu 19.04 with KDE plasma. First off, congrats to all the folks out there that have made Linux usable to a computer user, not a professional. With little effort I ...
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How to install KDE Plasma 5.11 on Ubuntu 16.04 (Kubuntu 16.04)?
How to install KDE Plasma 5.11 on Ubuntu 16.04 (Kubuntu 16.04)?
It seems to be not possible to be done simply from repositories like highlighted in this question: How to force only newer KDE packages ...
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Kubuntu 18.04 and new device notification sound
In Kubuntu 18.04:
screenfetch
./+o+- saidbakr@Satellite-L850-A700
yyyyy- -yyyyyy+ OS: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic
://+//////-yyyyyyo ...
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Display issues after switching to KDE on Ubuntu 18.04
I recently changed desktop environments to KDE on my Ubuntu 18.04 installation. However, there have been weird rendering glitches with certain applications. For instance, Cheese shows a nonsense ...
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Get full user name and e-mail as stored in KDE system settings
Kubuntu/KDE stores the full user name and the e-mail adress of each user. They can be viewed and edited using the corresponding system settings dialog.
Is there a (KDE specific) way to get both ...
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Start & kill fcitx by shortcut
I'm using caps lock to switch between languages, but fcitx seems to be not support this. So, is it possible to load/unload fcitx with japanese mozc input only by some shortcut, but for other two ...
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Panel/Pop Up Notification issues after upgrading to Kubuntu 19.04
A little help please!
I just upgraded to Kubuntu 19.04 and am experiencing a little, albeit annoying, issue.
2 issues, actually.
1. When I first log in and am presented with the Kubuntu desktop I have ...
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cannot make ubuntu autostart my script
I need to force my KDE Plasma installed on ubuntu 18.04 to run the following script on startup (after login):
xinput --map-to-output "Wacom HID 48DE Finger touch" eDP-1-1
xinput --map-to-output "...
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KDE Accessible always open and unclosable
since today i have a weird icon in my notifications area, its called KDE accessible... it has a close button but it doesn't closes when i press that button.
it also has a process but that process is ...
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Boot to command line without loading GUI [duplicate]
I'm running Ubuntu server 19.10
In order to do a few things I installe KDE-Plasma desktop.
But I still want to just boot into TTY command line without loading the GUI etc. I don't want to remove ...
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Boot into Plasma again
I configured an Auto Login and a session login into kodi in my system.
It is running Kubuntu 18.04 with plasma desktop.
To achieve that I used /System Settings > Startup and Shutdown > Login Screen > ...
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Kubuntu won't start X
My Kubuntu 18.04 LTS installation has been failing to load any kind of GUI on boot, but I still have my MythTV backend and OpenHAB 2 server working just fine on the same machine, as well as SSH access ...
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Add flag as a label in the keyboard layout switcher, for layouts that do not have flags stored
In KDE I would like to add the EU flag to the layout switcher for the EurKey layout:
Is this possible (without recompiling anything)?
P.S.: The above is on Kubuntu 18.04, but I am quite sure that a ...
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KDE software settings going back to default after computer restart
I've re-applied my settings a couple of times after turning off my computer in KDE software settings. I've done some digging around and couldn't find anything to resolve the situation. One of the ...
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KDE Dolphin file manager: Configure Places for all users
I'm running a dual boot system with Windows 7 - so have a bunch of NTFS and FAT drives - C:, D: and E:
I also have 2 more users for whom I've set up accounts
I've managed to add fstab entries so ...
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"No Batteries Available" in KDE battery widget
I have installed Kubuntu 17.10 on my Chromebook via crouton. The problem I'm having is that my battery doesn't show in the battery widget, I haven't had this problem with GNOME, Xfce, or Unity. I'm ...