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Plasma Bigscreen is a Plasma-based shell (desktop environment) for TVs and other large displays. It is designed to be used with arrow navigation using remotes or controllers.

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Plasma Bigscreen Website

Diving into Plasma Bigscreen

KDE Get Involved

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In today's Daft Code stream, @AleixPol and @sitter will talk about the latest KDE Goals Plasma Keyboard push, Kirigami, QML and other nifty things. They will be joined by @espidev. Join them live at 18:00 CEST on https://twitch.tv/daft_code

#kde #osk #kirigami #qml #dbus #coding #virtualkeyboard #kdegoals

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"This week in Plasma" brings the news that you will be able to configure the rotatable dial on your drawing tablet in Plasma 6.5, the Welcome Center gets accessibility improvements, and automatic wallpaper transitions linked to you day/night cycle are coming soon:

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/07/12/this-week-in-plasma-tablet-dials-and-day/night-cycles/

#Plasma6 #opensource #freesoftware #desktop

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Explore the collection:
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#KDE #merch #FOSS #OpenSource

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I've been using Matinlotfali's rounded corners for a while now. Is there truly no way to achieve rounded corners natively on Plasma, or am I not looking hard enough?

KDE devs have been quietly working on Plasma Keyboard, a new on-screen keyboard for desktop and mobile part of the “We Care About Your Input” KDE Goals initiative. Although not ready for texting yet, it has been making progress. Hopefully it'll be in a screen near you soon. Join the effort!

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-keyboard

#kde #plasma #mobile #osk #accessibility #keyboard

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About this app: This project grew out of my Advanced Radio Player widget. Now it’s a full-fledged radio app.

Features:

• Create your own library where you can add your favorite stations

• Easily search and discover new radio stations

• Automatic recognition of tracks if is possible

• Adaptive application layout, compatible for small and large screens

Source

Since I upgraded, I have one screen of my 4 that won't go to sleep with the other 3, and my tiling setup gets reset on reboot. 6.4.1 on Fedora.

Hi,

I have two panels touching the same corner of the screen, and until Plasma 6.4, the left one was fine being on top of the top one, but after the update, it turned into the opposite, which made my app launcher unusable, so I had to reduce the top panel width so they wouldn't overlap anymore.

Unfortunately, the panels have rounded corners, which makes for a weird view :

And even worse when a window is maximized :

How to disable this ?

Thanks

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/24303677

Hi there, I've got these really odd issue where certain windows will cause random lines like the one in the screenshot appear on my screen. They will often flicker a bit and will dissapear if I hover my mouse over them. The lines will display what is beneath the window itself. These occour quite frequently and are frankly getting quite annoying to deal with.

Is this a known issue with KDE right now? It does not happen while using Gnome on the same machine + screen. If it matters I am running CachyOS.

If there is anythign I can do to fix this then I'd greatly appriciate some pointers!

cross-posted from: https://ani.social/post/16319506

So I've been using it for a week or so, tried some other distros on the side, also tried some very dangerous things like rebasing from KDE to Gnome. I'll present my impressions as lists of good and bad things. Also keep in mind I've been mostly using Gnome in the past, so some of this feedback might be more about KDE / Plasma 6 in general, rather than Bazzite itself.

Bad:

• The most shocking issue I figured only yesterday is that games didn't use my NVIDIA GPU and instead used integrated one, I simply didn't expect NVIDIA edition of gaming-tailored distro could fuck up this, until I tried some heavier games yesterday and checked glxinfo after being unsatisfied by performance - only to find out it was indeed the case, workaround/fix can be found here.
• Transparency and blur work in a rather tricky way and by default blur is set to maximum that makes transparency not visible at all, took me a while to figure this out.
• Aurorae window decoration themes don't support "draw border on maximized and tiled windows" and there are no workaround without doing things that are very unsafe/unstable in context of atomic distro like Bazzite so for the rice I wanted I had to stick with builtin Breeze theme which is old and limited in many ways, I pretty much had to achieve everything with color scheme + panel colorizer alone.
• I don't remember how exactly this happened, but killswitch option in Linux ProtonVPN client somehow got broken in a way that I couldn't connect to internet at all because killswitch was activated and couldn't disable killswitch at the same time, I had to create another user and remove previous one. It also bombarded me with some errors regarding "kdewallet" that I don't understand. Worth noting, I've been using this client with killswitch on many Gnome distros before and never had this issue anywhere else.
• When using external monitor, some apps and games don't perform the same. For example, Blender's viewport feels less smooth/snappy than on internal monitor.
• By default mouse acceleration is on, which makes it feel weird/bad in some games and graphic programs, I believe it makes more sense to have it off by default and I'm not sure why even include that option in gaming-focused distro, I can't imagine anyone wanting to use it. Gaming is all about raw input (imo).
• Builtin terminal is rendered in its own style completely ignoring theming, I didn't like it at all. I was able to install alacritty via rpm-ostree though and it works just fine.

Good:

• All my favorite windows-only games installed from the first try with zero workarounds. And after fixing the issue with wrong GPU, performance in games is awesome, feels like it might actually be slightly better than on Windows.
• After discovering panel colorizer and figuring some quirks of Plasma 6 theming, especially in context of immutable distro, I was able to achieve look and feel I'm very happy about.
• I really like the idea of immutable/atomic distro, and ecosystem for using it here is solid and mature. It feels like system is very safe and bulletproof.
• Even though it's not recommended but rebasing from KDE to Gnome did work well with maybe some minor issues which I'm not even sure weren't just Gnome issues. In the end I didn't like Gnome version more than KDE one and decided to clean up my partitions and reinstalled KDE version again.
• I also briefly checked some alternative distros like Nobara, but nothing impressed me more than Bazzite.
• Volume and brightness controls, bluetooth, network manager, disks utility, and after some tweaking dolphin - everything works smooth, everything supports scenarios I want to use, and most of those feel better and more advanced than Windows or Gnome alternatives.
• Builtin ujust utility is neat and has a lot of optional tools installable in one command, like "ujust bazzite-cli", which installs and intergrates other utilities like atuin, fzf, ripgrep.
• I feel rather happy about it now, and I don't expect it to break anytime soon or have any major issues for me. Time will tell though.

The latest issue of "This week in Plasma" brings the news that now there's a pop-up preview for folders on the desktop that are empty, that the Plasma Virtual Keyboard is coming along nicely, and that screen recordings of specific windows now capture that window's popups too:

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/07/05/this-week-in-plasma-chugging-along/

#Plasma6 #FreeBSD #OpenSource

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Two interesting projects I'm keeping an eye on:

✳️ Karton - A Virtual Machine manager being worked on for #gsoc by @kenoi

✳️ Kretro - A new #libretro frontend by @seshpenguin

#emulation #retroarch #retrogaming #libvirt #kde

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I'm trying to add margins around all maximized windows (so that it matches my custom taskbar which also have small margins all around), any ideas how to achieve this? I tried doing a KWin script, but even though it installs and activates, it doesn't work, not sure what's wrong. Also I have suspicions there might be easier ways to do it. This is my script attempt:

workspace.clientMaximizeSet.connect(function(client, h, v) {
    if (h && v) {
        client.frameGeometry = {
            x: 0,
            y: 4,
            width: workspace.displayWidth - 4,
            height: workspace.displayHeight - 8
        };
    }
});

Found solution: I already have panel colorizer widget for KDE Panel and it turns out, I could simply create extra panels on top/right/bottom edges with panel colorizers that allow to make them fully transparent and have custom height/width. And for windows to not lose borders/rounded corners when maximized I found a flag in "Window Decorations > Breeze" options.

Hi,

There's an option for night light to be manually controlled, but then it has to be enabled by default on boot ("always on") :

There's also an option to disable it by default, but then it requires opening settings to enable ("always off") :

How to make it manual but without enabling it by default ?

Thanks