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Plasma 6.4 and X11 on Arch Linux needs manual intervention

Since KDE Plasma 6.4 was released, it has been ported over to Arch Linux users under the Testing branch with version 6.4.0-1 on the release date. Systems that have this branch configured can now experience KDE Plasma 6.4.

Normally, this version of KDE Plasma 6.4 runs on Wayland. During testing, the Arch Linux team have made an announcement on their official web page regarding support for X11 and KDE Plasma 6.4. They have stated that they had done a recent migration of KWin to two packages:

  • kwin-wayland: KDE Window Manager using the modern Wayland protocol
  • kwin-x11: KDE Window Manager using the legacy X11 protocol

Unfortunately, this means that those who are running the legacy X11 protocol need to install an additional support package for X11 for the Plasma session, plasma-x11-session, or they won’t be able to log in the next time the system is restarted.

They have additionally pointed out that Arch’s package manager, Pacman, is currently unable to figure out the personal setup of a user, and stating that “it wouldn’t be ok to install plasma-x11-session and kwin-x11 for every one using Plasma.”

If you are using the X11 version of KDE Plasma, you can use sudo pacman -Syu and sudo pacman -Sy plasma-x11-session. We recommend migrating to Wayland as soon as possible.

#KDEPlasma#KDEPlasma64#news
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KDE Plasma, by the way, is fucking awesome!

Truly, try it sometime, and you'd be surprised on how user-friendly Linux can be.

#Kde #KdePlasma #Plasma #Linux

RE: https://mk.absturztau.be/notes/a8jcizcw4ak7003v

ぷにすきーLinux Is Best (@Linux)@gcvsa@mstdn.plus I do not particularly with SMD Networking, but I know there is a user-friendly GUI for it today. I recall seeing this in Fedora on KDE Plasma. You just clicked through and it was done. Sorry, I am not more helpful on the details, but it does exist -- However, as you've learned, old school users will try to deny things work and try to shove the terminal onto everyone for the most simplest things. I recall a few years ago, someone brand new (1st time installer), only wanted to know how to change their wallpaper, and they were given a guide on how to use the terminal. RE: @Linux@mk.absturztau.be I literally just blocked someone who replied to a earlier post of my about how point and click SMB network file browsing doesn't work properly in Linux graphical file browsers due to a long-standing bug in gvfs, and they replied to me, "well why don't you just mount it in fstab?" God forbid people should expect common tools to work the same way they work on other common platforms! RE: ...
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I use #KdePlasma and configure as many keyboard shortcuts as will fit in my tiny brain so that I don't have to keep picking up the mouse. #Plasma is brilliantly configurable; #Windows is not. So I've changed some Plasma shortcuts to be the same as Windows' equivalents to reduce cognitive load when switching between home and work.

I often have several console windows open on the same virtual desktop. I give each one a different colour to make it easy to Alt+Tab between them. I have simple aliases (red, blue, green, turq) to make it easy to launch them.

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Today, I learned, KDE Plasma is working on "Karton" a Virtual Machine Manager. 🤯

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/18/gsoc-2025-project-intro-developing-karton-the-kde-virtual-machine-manager/

#Kde #KdePlasma #VirtualMachine #Virtualization

KDE Blogs · GSoC 2025 Project Intro: Developing Karton, the KDE Virtual Machine Manager!Hi everyone! I'm Derek Lin, also known as kenoi. I'm a second-year student at the University of Waterloo and really excited to be working on developing Karton, a virtual machine manager, this summer. This project will be a part of the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2025 program and mentored by Harald Sitter, Tobias Fella, and Nicolas Fella. Over the past few months, I've been contributing to the project through some merge requests and I hope to get it to a somewhat polished state towards the end of the program!
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Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Debian 13 is now in hard freeze, MIPS (MIPS64EL) architecture support dropped, RISC-V is promoted as a release architecture:
phoronix.com/news/Debian-13-Ha

Debian installer Trixie RC1 adds rescue support on Btrfs, Linux kernel 6.12, spice-vdagent is installed automatically on QEMU/KVM, Ext2 file system on PPC64EL architecture instead of Ext4, etc.:
phoronix.com/news/Debian-Insta

APT package manager 3.1 released with why/why-not commands, new solver default on Ubuntu, include/exclude options, HTTPS support for dselect, etc.:
phoronix.com/news/Debian-APT-3

KDE Plasma 6.4 will include time-of-day wallpapers, adaptive-sync disabled by default:
phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-T

NixOS 25.05 released with Linux kernel 6.12 LTS and 6.14, GNOME 48, initial COSMIC support, new `nixos-rebuild build-image` sub-command, nixos-rebuild-ng, rewritten nixos-option etc.:
9to5linux.com/nixos-25-05-rele

Ubuntu 25.10 switches Chrony for Network Time Protocol (NTP) for better security:
phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.10

GNOME 50 dropping X11 support causes complications for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/gnome-

Tails 6.15.1 released with fixes for critical Tor browser vulnerabilities:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/5/

Wine 10.8 released with TIFF support, progress on PDB backend, boosted performance:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/5/

New Linux phone upcoming by the Divine D. project:
liliputing.com/divine-d-projec
(Hopefully it will be a relatively cheap phone to replace the aging PinePhone)

Phosh 0.47.0 released with status page for feedback quick settings, mobile data quick settings disabled when SIM is locked, bug fixes:
phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.47.0

(FOSS news in comments)

www.phoronix.comDebian 13 "Trixie" Now In Hard Freeze: MIPS64EL Demoted, RISC-V 64-bit Promoted
#WeeklyNews#News#Linux
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I am at that point, where I am just throwing shit at the wall and seeing if anything sticks.

Trying to get a Virtual Keyboard to work with SDDM within NixOS.

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/virtual-keyboard-at-sddm-not-working/64675/6

#NixOS #Nix #Linux #Accessibility #Keyboard #VirtualKeyboard #VmKeyboard #Sddm #Kde #KdePlasma

NixOS Discourse · Virtual Keyboard at SDDM not workingFinal SOLUTION: Someone messages me and told me I don’t need to specify the virtual keyboard with GDM. I’m not a Gnome user, which means I don’t typically use GDM, so that was news to me. It also saved me trouble because I was trying to debug how to keep the keyboard loaded using systemd. This is the final working config. – I am making this as the solution. No error and it works! # ---------------------------------------- # 🖼️ Graphical Desktop. # -------------------------------------...
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KDE Plasma 6.4 lets you use day/night wallpapers!

The upcoming version of KDE Plasma, which will be released in three weeks, brings a very immersive feature that allows you to use a compatible wallpaper as a time-of-day wallpaper.

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This feature allows your desktop to automatically change the wallpaper to the following versions:

  • Light version of the wallpaper is used in the daytime, beginning from the sunrise to the sunset.
  • Dark version of the wallpaper is used in the nighttime, beginning from the sunset to the sunrise.

You can use your device’s current location for more accurate timing. This increases comfort when you’re using the desktop in both the daytime and in the nighttime.

In order to implement this feature, the settings application had to be changed so that it more clearly indicates that a wallpaper is dynamic. Also, supported wallpapers will show you a two-sided preview presenting you about how the two versions of the same wallpaper will look in both the daytime and in the nighttime.

Ubuntu 24.10 will feature this upcoming version of KDE Plasma.

#KDE#KDEPlasma#KDEPlasma64
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