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Mint_Raccoon, in How fast is Plasma on old hardware?
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I've used KDE on a Thinkpad T60, it's about 17 years old, has 3GB of RAM, and a Core Duo. It ran surprisingly well. Replacing the HDD with a SSD can also make a noticeable difference, so you should consider that if you haven't already. I also turned off a lot of the animations and effects for better performance.

boredsquirrel,

Interesting. SSD is not an option as this is not really used and has a huge 1,8TB HDD.

And it runs very fine for its job.

I wish plasma had a “energy saving mode” where all this fancy stuff is disabled. Transparency, blur, animations etc.

minecraftchest1,
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@boredsquirrel
While tedious, those effects can all be turned off in *"Workspace Effects" or whatever it's called. Not at my laptop to check.
@Mint_Raccoon

boredsquirrel,

I know. But as you said it is rather tedious.

Is there a CLI interface for these settings like gsettings on GNOME?

minecraftchest1,
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@boredsquirrel
You can edit the config files that live in XDG_CONFIG_DIR/kde

Zamundaaa,

The only effects relevant for performance are blur and background contrast. Turn those off if you feel the system is slow, maybe increase the animation speed and you’re done

boredsquirrel,

You cannot disable animations right? Setting the speed to max seems equivalent, but do you know if it actually turns something off?

Zamundaaa,

Setting the speed to the max does turn them off

boredsquirrel,

Nice, thanks!

5PACEBAR, in KDEnlive community?

I discovered kdenlive a few months ago and it’s amazing! I can’t believe I didn’t even know it existed. How come it’s not as popular as paid options? It even runs on Windows

MentalEdge, (edited )
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

It’s not quite as feature rich as something like davinci resolve, which is straight up movie industry level software, yet it’s free to use.

And resolve actually runs on Linux, too.

KDEnlive has also had some bugs over years. I personally started editing with it first, but ditched it for resolve due to a bug that would cause audio and video to gradually go out of sync over time, but only when actually rendering, and there was literally no way to work around It. I had no way to turn my completed edit into an actual usable video file…

I am back to using it, and it has improved a ton. It’s extremely capable and has all the features most editing projects would ever need.

Rustmilian, (edited ) in How do I disable HDR?
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kscreen-doctor -o
Then adjust the below command accordingly :
kscreen-doctor output.1.hdr.disable

Make sure you go open a bug report.
When you do, you can use hw-probe and run :
sudo -E hw-probe -all -upload -dump-acpi -decode-acpi
And use the given link in your BR.

ByteBovine,

The monitor does not display with kscreen-doctor -o as it’s disconnected.

I will create a bug report.

Rustmilian, (edited )
@Rustmilian@lemmy.world avatar

I see you got it fixed.
When you run hw-prope make sure your offending monitor is connected. hw-prope will help identify the monitor by hardware ID which is used in various areas like kernel space and will help with identifying the exact model of the problem monitor hopefully allowing for devs to reproduce the bug in a lab environment.

ByteBovine,

Added the hw-probe link

Rustmilian,
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Which one of these is the problem monitor? benq or gigabyte ?

Edit : nvm, I see you already said Gigabyte.

Rustmilian,
@Rustmilian@lemmy.world avatar

Looking through the probe logs, and seeing that your monitor is using EISA bus and works fine without HDR, there doesn’t appear to be any issues on the Linux side of things. My guess is that they didn’t implement HDR on the monitors side exactly to spec and that’s where the problem resides. So, in this sense some monitor specific quirk fixup code is needed on the Linux side of things to get it working properly. If the devs ask any additional steps from you, be sure to do it and provide feedback.

trillian, in KDE Plasma 6.0.1, Bugfix Release for March

404 for the full changelog :/

magikmw,
Matty_r,
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One too many /plasma/ in the link by the looks. Change Log

ChairmanMeow, in Vote on the new KDE Plasma Logo!
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David_Edmundson - KDE Developer

Don’t create a social media hype of something before discussing it with Plasma devs. That’s obviously going to antagonise people, and puts us in an awkward situation afterwards.

Looks like this “vote” is not really official and blindsided the devs a bit.

markstos, in To whomever made Dolphin's "Extract here, autodetect subfolder" feature - I love you

It’s a useful feature, but I couldn’t have guessed your explanation from the name.

It seems to me that the default extract option should work that way and this option should just be removed from the menu.

I have never once wanted extracting an archive file to litter the current directory with files.

The only exception would be an archive which contains a single inner file.

Discover5164,

true, i’ve used kde for a long time but did not know what that option did.

i always created the folder manually, moved the zip, and then used extract here.

russjr08,

It would be nice if it were at least configurable to set as the default extract option. If I had to take a guess, it’d be that it’s not the default option because the amount of single files before needing a subfolder could vary between different people. Some folks may want only one, and others may be fine if it goes up to say 3. However, I suppose that could also just be a configurable option.

That being said, I’ve at the very least developed the muscle memory to always click that option no matter what. I can’t tell by your comment if you weren’t aware of the feature, but if not then hopefully it can be of use to you moving forward as well!

Rustmilian, (edited ) in Problem with Chrome apps and task manager
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Chdir is a function within C/++ so it’s most likely a problem with Chrome, as I’m fairly certain Plasma would be using <unistd.h> properly… Maybe perhaps installing perl-file-chdir or perl-cwd-gaurd could solve this, but I wouldn’t bet on it. Wouldn’t hurt to try at least.

redbr64, in Disable screen gamma adjustment Plasma 6

Same here, one nice new monitor plus 2 random old hand me downs. I hope you get an answer

TeddyKila, in Problem with Chrome apps and task manager

Is firefox an option?

penquin, in Problem with Chrome apps and task manager

I use Firefox with “firefox-pwa” extension and I have zero issues with webapps

Interstellar_1,

Additionally, Floorp also natively supports webapps

penquin,

I actually tried floorp. It was a pretty good browser.

kylie_kraft, in Problem with Chrome apps and task manager

I don’t think it’s just Plasma 6. I’ve had similar issues for a couple years when I’ve attempted this. One of two things happens: the icons revert to the default blank page, or the pinned app disappears entirely. I have an old Chromebox that I flashed and installed Neon on, and I wanted to make it look like Chrome OS, but I’ve never gotten the task bar to stay looking right.

Rustmilian,
@Rustmilian@lemmy.world avatar

I’d take a look at those .desktop files in ~/.local/share/applications/ or /usr/share/applications/

nshiell, in GitHub - uszie/firefox-breeze-theme: A Breeze theme for Firefox🔥
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@const_void Interesting

justin, in GitHub - uszie/firefox-breeze-theme: A Breeze theme for Firefox🔥
@justin@lemmy.kde.social avatar

Readme needs updating. Still references GNOME stuff.

DmMacniel, in GitHub - uszie/firefox-breeze-theme: A Breeze theme for Firefox🔥

Heck yeah. I was wondering why there only ever was firefox-gnome-theme, which looks amazing in GNOME and libAdawaita.

heind, in GitHub - uszie/firefox-breeze-theme: A Breeze theme for Firefox🔥
@heind@mastodon.social avatar

@const_void
Ha! This is perfect and exactly what I was looking for! 😌

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