Hmm. It seems I ran into an issue with Fedora 40 and KDE 6 after today's update. Am I the only person with this issue?
When I run systemsettings, I get the following error:
$ systemsettings
systemsettings: symbol lookup error: /lib64/libKF6KCMUtils.so.6: undefined symbol: _ZN32KCategorizedSortFilterProxyModel16staticMetaObjectE
I guess it could be related to the following?:
Problem 1: package telegram-desktop-4.16.8-1.fc40.x86_64 requires libQt6Core.so.6(Qt_6.6_PRIVATE_API)(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
- package telegram-desktop-4.16.8-1.fc40.x86_64 requires qt6-qtbase(x86-64) = 6.6.2, but none of the providers can be installed
- cannot install both qt6-qtbase-6.6.2-7.fc40.x86_64 and qt6-qtbase-6.7.0-3.fc40.x86_64
- cannot install the best update candidate for package telegram-desktop-4.16.8-1.fc40.x86_64
- cannot install the best update candidate for package qt6-qtbase-6.6.2-7.fc40.x86_64
Problem 2: problem with installed package
- package telegram-desktop-4.16.8-1.fc40.x86_64 requires libQt6Gui.so.6(Qt_6.6_PRIVATE_API)(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
- package telegram-desktop-4.16.8-1.fc40.x86_64 requires libQt6Widgets.so.6(Qt_6.6_PRIVATE_API)(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
- cannot install both qt6-qtbase-gui-6.6.2-7.fc40.x86_64 and qt6-qtbase-gui-6.7.0-3.fc40.x86_64
- cannot install the best update candidate for package qt6-qtbase-gui-6.6.2-7.fc40.x86_64
One of the improvements I’m seeing with #Fedora 40 is a significant reduction in the time it takes the #desktop to initialize after logging in. Previously, the process used to take ages and particularly then for #Firefox to show any pages. A marked improvement.
I've got udev rules that trigger a shell script when I turn the mouse off/on. That's the first part!
Still haven't been able to find a way to use libinput, kcfg (Python CLI for modifying KDE settings), probably something else to disable the touchpad or stop processing its events.
Using kcfg, I re-enabled the touchpad. Then killall -HUP kwin_wayland… seems to have enabled the touchpad, but also behaved as if KDE had crashed and been restarted. My apps were killed. Not quite what I wanted.
Tried using PyQt6 to send a DBus message to KWin that I thought would reload all the configs; no apparent effect. Wonder if I need to be root?
The org.kde.KWin DBus has a /component/kcm_touchpad that has interesting Get(interface, property) and Set(interface, property, value) methods. I
can't find any current kcm_touchpad info though, just ancient source repos.
Feeling like I should screen cap the dozen-ish different file selectors I run into on my Linux system, and post a semi-snarky commentary about them all.
Friends of energy efficiency - the Light Video 0.1.0 #Flathub update is out, build with #gtk4 4.14 and #GStreamer 1.24.1.
This should be the first app targeting the #linux / FDO desktop enabling Wayland video offloading (think zero-copy playback) by default. In many cases (actually more than I expected) this can improve battery lifetime - and on low-end devices even playback performance - significantly.
This is kinda a technology preview in order to see if we can ship features like this enabled by default in a lot more apps in the ecosystem.
Thus I'd be very super happy if you'll try it on lots of hardware - be Intel/AMD laptops or ARM64 devices (with V4L2 stateless decoders, such as most #LinuxMobile devices).
Chances that you really hit a zero-copy path are highest with a recent #Wayland compositor - i.e. if you are using #GNOME46, #kde6 or a recent version of #sway, #weston, #cosmic etc.
Looks like Nobara Linux is number 2 to make the jump to KDE 6, right behind Arch.
I ran a software update today and there it was.
A warning to you folks who like to customize their desktops: 99.9% of the available KDE global themes currently do NOT work with KDE 6. As I write this, there are only 20 themes available, and I had issues downloading some of them.
Some widgets do not work anymore (thermal monitor & an older weather widget). That was expected.
Some settings were reset.
Took me a while until I figured out, that I had 'Breeze dark' for all design styles but the colors in 'Breeze classic'.
I deactivated shadows again but need to find some more animations.
Fixed a thin line around windows by changing the Breeze window decorations.