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online accounts won't connect google on kubuntu 20.04

Try to right click and reload the page, sometimes it wont show the UI or allow us to interact with the UI, but somehow reloading the page works
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Dolphin runs as root in KDE

It's fixed now. I rebooted and it reverted back to normal.
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Why does xdg-open use wslview?

I had the same problem so I looked into it. I've found that wslview declares that it handles the x-scheme-handler/file mimetype in its desktop entry located at /usr/share/wslu/wslview.desktop: [...
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How to ban access to .zip TLDs?

Frame challenge: that isn't realistic. Ubuntu (and Linux in general) is not Windows. So when looking at a specific type of attack, double-check that it would be applicable to Linux and not just ...
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Trigger krunner with Meta

Information was out-of-date in KDE UserBase Wiki. Correct command is kwriteconfig5 --file ~/.config/kwinrc --group ModifierOnlyShortcuts --key Meta "org.kde.kglobalaccel,/component/...
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Kubuntu 23.04 not booting with the 6.2 kernel

This is what solved it for me on Ubuntu 23.04 on a Lenovo ThinkPad P51 with NVIDIA Quadro M1200: sudo apt instal nvidia-driver-515 and reboot. This led to working kernel 6.2 and proprietary graphics ...
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Google Chrome didn't shut down correctly

Another way to do this that might be the most simple: Thanks to https://askubuntu.com/a/1335024 and some other googling, this is what I did. It seems to work on shutdown, reboot and logout. Create a ...
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How to disable "S" keyboard indicator light for alternate keyboard layout in Kubuntu 23.04?

Open the /etc/default/keyboard file for editing. It probably includes this line: XKBOPTIONS="grp_led:scroll" Change it to: XKBOPTIONS="" and hopefully you'll notice a difference ...
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How do I set password for Hotspot?

It seems that the HOTSPOT button doesn't work properly here in Kubuntu 20.04. I'm not sure why. The solution for me was to manually create an Access Point (aka hotspot) connection using either nm-...
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iSight not working on Kubuntu 20.04

You have to extract the isight firmware from the MacOS installation or from elsewhere. See here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MactelSupportTeam/AppleiSight
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Transparency Effects in KDE Plasma, not supported by color scheme

I've had this message show up when I had a fullscreen game open (active but minimized/hidden) - not sure if it matters but the game used vulkan shaders. When I quit the game, the terminal window ...
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KDE Plasma task manager does not show some apps during loading

I encountered an issue with IntelliJ where the icon specified in the .desktop file was in .svg format. However, by changing it to .png format, the problem was successfully resolved. Here is an example ...
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NVMe not being detected by KDE Partition Manager

IRST (Intel Rapid Storage Technology) was enabled in my UEFI BIOS.
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Panel on Kubuntu 23.04

No idea how to solve your problem directly, but maybe easiest way to add a New Panel (through the desktop menu) and start over there adding Widgets in the right place. I also have many problems with ...
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/dev/mem and even /dev/port can't open even as root!

It is a kernel parameter named CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM. By default, since kernel 2.6.26, it is disabled and as such does not allow access to it. Find out what you have it set to: $ ll /proc/ | grep conf $...
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Google Chrome didn't shut down correctly

EDIT: Solution seemed to be working at first, but I still get the message in the end... I'm leaving the answer up, maybe someone will find the missing piece. Reviving an old thread because it's the ...
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How can I rebrand Kubuntu?

here is something I got from a forum in discord (I use cubic) I think cubic changes the /etc/lsb-release. Here are some other places to change /etc/issue, /etc/issue.net, /usr/share/backgrounds/ and /...
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How to enable system title bar in Chrome to make it visible on every workspace?

The setting can be easily changed by right-click on the title bar. If not, here is another way: The setting is controlled by a boolean custom_chrome_frame in ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/...
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Kde plasma freezes unexpectedly

I had this for a while on 22.04. The workaround was to leave a corner of a terminal visible at all times, and at freeze time click into it and issue $ kwin --replace &. Upgrading to 23.04 fixed ...
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Kde plasma freezes unexpectedly

This issue is caused by old MESA library. I've updated the library and it fixed it. For example this article describes how to do this (the one i used): linuxcapable.com/how-to-upgrade-mesa-drivers-on-...
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Unable to use Kmail : akonadi not operational

The Answer is: I somehow did not have mariadb installed, which fixed everything.
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Deactivate "Recent Files" in Dolphin

right click on recent files and select to hide the section
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How to swtich monitor order in the login screen?

It's simple: copy ~/.config/monitors.xml to /var/lib/gdm3/.config/ and change owner permissions of monitors.xml to gdm.gdm. cd ~/.config sudo cp monitors.xml /var/lib/gdm3/.config sudo chown gdm.gdm /...
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Build mediapipe on Linux (Ubuntu 22.04)

It was actually solved by following this guide, but for opencv setup I went with option 2 (setup_opencv.sh)
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Kde plasma freezes unexpectedly

I believe this is an issue with MESA 22.2.x. It can be resolved by upgrading to MESA 22.3.0 or later. See: https://askubuntu.com/a/1463322/702934 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kwin/+bug/...
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Kubuntu GUI freeze issue

I believe this is an issue with MESA 22.2.x. It can be resolved by upgrading to MESA 22.3.0 or later. See: https://askubuntu.com/a/1463322/702934 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kwin/+bug/...
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