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Hi everybody!
I've just installed Kubuntu and I'm using Linux gui for the first time.
I have 2 4K screens, one horizontal and one vertical. With Windows I divide the horizontal one in 4 equal parts and the vertical in 3 parts so that all are almost 16:9 and each have it's own taskbar that's so useful to me because I know what I've opened in every virtual screen and if in virtual screen there is Outlook, but I need to take in foreground Chrome that I know it's there (but it's also in other screens), I can click on Chrome on the virtual screen 1 taskbar. If there are no multiple taskbar, I would have to click on Chrome on the main taskbar and select which window I need (which can be problematic because not always it's possible to see what's going on in the small preview).

Is this or something similar possible with KDE plasma (I'm on 6.1.5).

Thanks!

In "This Week in KDE Apps": Optilmage's first release; Itinerary's re-design; how Karp, KDE's new PDF designer, has improved its performance; the upcoming KDE Gear ⚙️ 24.12 release; and more.

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/12/01/this-week-in-kde-apps-optiimage-first-release-itinerary-redesign-and-more/

You too can contribute to keeping KDE's apps going by adopting at our fundraiser:

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/

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Incredible, the last two months absolutely crushed on the first day of December and all it took was a single desktop notification. This is just the paypal donations as well. You can take a look at the data for yourself here.

This Week in KDE Apps: OptiImage first release, Itinerary redesign and more

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/12/01/this-week-in-kde-apps-optiimage-first-release-itinerary-redesign-and-more/

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FULL RES IMAGE AT https://archive.org/details/katie-christmas

I dont even celebrate Christmas

[Also feedback on the drawing would be much appreciated, still trying to draw stuff]

€30K reached🎉! Thank you generous donors!

We are now on our way towards our 1st reach goal. To celebrate, we have added 4 more apps to our list of adoptable apps.

Discover helps you install, remove and update your software; KolourPaint is an easy to use design program; with KRFB, you can share your desktop over a network; and #GCompris is the wildly popular educational suite with tons of fun activities for kids.

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/

#SupportGoodPeople #fundraiser #donations #apps

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We are at 99% of our first fundraising goal! Will your donation push us over the finishing line? And will you do it today?!??!

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/

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This Week in Plasma brings disableable KWin rules, less confusing flatpak info in Discover, a more comprehensible icon for wireless headphones, and a flurry of other UI improvements and nice new features.

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/11/30/this-week-in-plasma-disable-able-kwin-rules/

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This Week in Plasma: Disable-able KWin Rules

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/11/30/this-week-in-plasma-disable-able-kwin-rules/

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[SOLVED] Vizio TV owners: You may need to manually turn on "Full HD Color" to get 4K@60Hz resolutions available! Oddly, this wasn't necessary for X11-based distros tested, but was required for Wayland-based distros tested...

Menu > Input Settings > HDMI-1 > Full UHD Color. It defaults to Off for some reason. 🤦‍♂️

When I was on Debian Bookworm and X11, I could only get 4K video at 30Hz from my GTX 980 Ti. I eventually upgraded from the HDMI cable that came with the 4K Vizio TV to a good brand HDMI 2.1 cable, then both 3840x2160@59.94Hz and 4096x2160@59.94Hz were available and working. (I think 3840 is the TV's native, there were more artifacts on text at 4096.)

I had some issues with Wine games on Debian that I couldn't figure out, and wanted to try some newer/different software, so I went distro-hopping. On both Nobara and currently EndeavourOS, both with KDE and Wayland, I'm back to only having 4K@30Hz available.

Edit: One strange detail I just remembered: Normally, the TV identifies itself as Vizio 55", but when I set 4K@59.94 in Debian, it identified as Vizio 11". Some kind of EDID workaround? I didn't have to do anything special, just install nvidia-driver and replace the cable.

I've only been able to find people with the opposite problem, where they can get 4K on Wayland but not on X11.

Any advice is welcome. Thanks!

Meta + T will show some pre-defined tiling settings and paddings, and using Shift + mouse drag it's possible to quick tile windows in these patterns

is it possible to replicate this somehow via keyboard ?

It's #BlueFriday and let's celebrate by doing something good for the planet. The most eco-friendly device is still the one you already own!

Install GNU/Linux and run new & old HW more efficiently and for longer, reducing the disproportionate #carbon footprint from device production.

Donate the savings to #KDE and #FOSS projects to show your love for all the amazing things we achieve when we work together:

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#SupportGoodPeople #fundraiser #BlackFriday #OptGreen

Black Friday bargain special! Adopt an App for €49.50!

And find out why funding free software communities is a better use of your money than spending it on stuff you probably don't need.

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/

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QtGreece 2024 is happening in Athens on December 5th. Join the #Qt community to learn, share ideas, and network.

More details & registration: https://qtgreece.extenly.com/

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I am trying to get the notification icon on the task bar to only show the little dot when there actually are notifications. At the moment it shows the dot whether there are notifications or not:

As you can see the bell icon displays a dot even though there are no notifications. Can I somehow change that to only show a badge when there actually are notifications?

Thanks!

Gwenview, Elisa, Konqueror and KRDC added to the list of adoptable apps

You can use Gwenview to view and do basic edits to images, Elisa is a sleek music player, Konqueror is KDE's classic file and web browser, and KRDC allows you to visit and use remote in a windows of your local desktop.

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/

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"This Week in KDE Apps" brings improvements to Haruna, Kate and KMyMoney (among many others); and a whole new app: Karp, a tool for visually arranging and editing PDF documents.

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/11/25/this-week-in-kde-apps-bugfixing-week/

#apps #FreeSoftware

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This Week in KDE Apps: Bugfixing Week

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/11/25/this-week-in-kde-apps-bugfixing-week/

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Fundraiser Appreciation Thread: Thank you for your support!

We thank every single donor and appreciate every donation we have received. Every € will be used wisely and will help support KDE contributors in their task of creating the best Free Software for the whole wide world.

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/

The fundraiser is not over! We want to reach €70K by the end of January, but we would like to start acknowledging all those who have adopted KDE apps and made our community's job easier.

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Just found this while scrolling flathub.

Hello! I'm new to Linux, and using Plasma 6.2, and I'm finding the Application Launcher incredibly finicky to work with. The primary issue is that the category changes on cursor pass-over, and so ends up requiring some surprisingly precise mouse or touch-pad movements to avoid changing the selected category.

Is there a way to change this behaviour? Digging through various settings panels hasn't unearthed an obvious toggle or set of options, and Google hasn't unearthed the secret either. I'm starting to lose hope on this front.

Am I missing something obvious? Is there a way to make it so the category only changes after a hover of some appreciable amount of time? Or even a click?

identity.kde is supposed to be used across KDE websites based on my understanding. But I am not able to login using my ID from identity.kde.

Does anyone know why or should I create a new account there?

This Week in Plasma: Battery Charge Cycles in Info Center.

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/11/23/this-week-in-plasma-battery-charge-cycles-in-info-center

This week we of course continued the customary bug-fixing, but got some nice new features and UI improvements too!

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This Week in Plasma: Battery Charge Cycles in Info Center

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/11/23/this-week-in-plasma-battery-charge-cycles-in-info-center/

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