Plasma 6.4 Beta 2 has landed. Devs have made more than 270 changes, correcting bugs, updating features and tweaking the code.
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.3.91/
Now it is time to put all of Plasma through its paces again!
If you are a tester, take it for a spin and submit bug reports to:
I'm starting to quite like the Radicle desktop application. It makes it convenient to open or manage issues, and review patches. It's like a web front end, but local first.
(I work on Radicle, but I'm not getting paid to say this. I do like the app.)
cc @radicle
Trying out #KDE Plasma6 unter FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE. It's working pretty solid so far :-)
@GossiTheDog @signalapp Fun, I wander if something similar can be done on #linux with #wayland so I dont accidentally leak all my DMs because of missclick when using #obs and #xdg_desktop_portal, maybe not to the level of application always denying capture ( #drm applications), but it would be cool to have an rejectlist in your linux #desktop to add/remove applications you explicitly dont want to be able to capture (with default values pulled from their #flatpak manifest or something)
If current #xdg specification doesnt allow that, does any of the desktops like #gnome, #kde, #cosmic or #hyperland thought about that?
Clipboard Indicator - GNOME Shell Extensions
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/779/clipboard-indicator/
Clipboard Manager
I can't move the Home icon on the Desktop Ubuntu 24.04.2 #icons #homedirectory #desktop #removing #foldingathome
ISO a decent Python IDE again
Before the important question...
- often I use emacs (-nox)
- sometimes vim or vi
- blah on micro, neovim, ed, ee, etc
This isn't about terminal IDEs, rather it's about standard desktop IDEs running on Xorg, primarily for python, shell, ansible, sql
Eclipse + PyDev
1) Ages ago, Eclipse with PyDev ... crashes often and I have no more patience
JetBrains PyCharm Pro
2) PyCharm Pro for a decade, JetBrains ruined it with the UI redesign and critical plugins no longer work when running "just use the old UI mode it's still fine"
Spyder well...
3) Have been messing with Spyder but it's rather limited (no markdown native? the plugin is unstable when it's even recognized). Verdic is still on the fence.
Something else, what have I missed in my search? I have no quals paying for a license on a truly good product, which used to be PyCharm Pro - but no longer.
OSS Note: I never use MSFT products for any reason, so fans of vscode should not bother.
"This Week in Plasma" brings a brand new HDR calibration wizard, an improved configuration dialog for the comics widget, textual headers for for audio devices in the volume widget, a new animation for when you empty the trash can, and much, much more.
I've easily & smoothly configured KDE Konnect to work in Fluxbox WM
I've been able to configure KDE to my liking so that I feel at home again in the K Desktop Environment.
This is critical because it means that everything from way back in the beginning, decades ago when KDE was released, is still in the current new and fresh version of the K Desktop Environment
It means that the teams which have worked on KDE for the past decades have kept the core of KDE alive
It means that we have an excellent group of programmers, before and current, who have worked on KDE and who have kept KDE beautiful fantastic and magnifique for a wide range of people all over the globe
Testers assemble: Plasma 6.4 Beta has been released!
Plasma 6.4 will be arriving in a month, meanwhile, you can try an unstable version here:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.3.90/
Remember: this is beta software! This means it has only been partially tested. Install it at your own risk and report bugs to
Since this command...
`xfce4-screenshooter -S -d 2 --window -s "$HOME/Pictures/$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S)_Screenshot2.png"`
...segfaults in fluxbox atm I did not bother with a screenshot, because xfce4-screenshooter rocks way too much to use another one
At this moment I'm roughly tuning a very nice FluxBox Desktop in an OpenSource POSIX driven OS.
I'm working on tuning my Desktops Environments in such a way that it doesn't matter whether I run them in Linux or *BSD
That way I'll just fire up the Operating System inject my own configuration for the desktop environment fire up X.org and then start working
FluxBox has been a favorite window / desktop manager of mine a couple of decades ago.
Since it has been written efficient it's blazingly fast
I combine tools that I love from Xfce with FluxBox so that my muscle memory for shortcuts can be used in a super smooth manner
Xfce is a suggestion.
This desktop manager is for me a nice balance between full keyboard control and great digitizer control. In my test KDE environment I have pulled in a number of critical Xfce components.
I will need to learn the new way in which KDE does these things so I can bring them back to my Xfce fvwm workflow
KDE gives me the possibility because I could do that decades to go
The upgrade was completed successfully and the FPS skyrocketed 
feels good to have a modern CPU
Due to security policy violations and a packaging bypass, #openSUSE is removing the #Deepin #Desktop from Tumbleweed and Leap 16.0. Read the full story: https://linuxiac.com/opensuse-removes-deepin-desktop-over-security-policy-violations/
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