Tag: KDE
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Kubuntu – KDE – adjusting screen brightness trick
I just happened upon an interesting little bonus feature in Kubuntu 22.04 with KDE Plasma 5.24.7 that I thought I’d share since it’s so nifty. It’s possible to add a battery icon to a panel. This is done by right-clicking on the panel and selecting “Add Widgets.” Scroll down and find the battery and brightness…
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Kubuntu 22.04 – How to Reset Plasma 5 Desktop
Kubuntu is my distribution of choice. I really like the flexibility of the KDE Desktop. But, pretty much every time I install Kubuntu, something goes haywire with the desktop, typically it is panels behaving strangely. For instance, I have dual monitors. I like to have a panel on the far right side of my two…
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How To Fix PDF Forms Not Showing Contents in Okular (Linux)
I have had this problem happen twice now, and I don’t know exactly what is causing it, but I found a solution. Here’s the situation… I received a PDF that has forms. Typically, that isn’t a problem as Okular is able to open most PDFs with forms and show both the forms and what has…
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Launching HandBrake 1.4.0 in Kubuntu 21.04
The fine folks at HandBrake have updated their software and distribution system to a Flatpack approach. Their Flatpack for Linux is based on Gnome, not KDE, which is fine, but it does mean that the GUI is no longer skinned with my system settings on KDE. Oh well… The bigger issue is that, with a…
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LibreOffice – KDE Integration Package for Skinning/Color Management
Super simple note for future reference and for anyone else running into this issue. I upgraded my version of LibreOffice in Kubuntu 20.10 to a pre-release version to fix a bug. I was running version 7.1.4.2. When I purged the version of LibreOffice that shipped with Kubuntu 20.10 (6.X – I don’t remember exactly which…
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Restarting KDE’s Plasma Shell via Konsole (command line)
As much as I love KDE as my desktop environment (on top of Ubuntu, so Kubuntu), it does occasionally happen that the Plasma Shell freezes up (usually when I’ve been running my computer for quite a while then boot up a game and begin to push the graphics a bit. Often, I just shut down…
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KDE – Adjusting the Look and Feel of the Desktop and Application Windows
I love how configurable KDE is as a desktop. However, adjusting the look of the desktop is something of a nightmare. There are five different options to adjust different aspects of the desktop and application windows, each of which does different things, but the labels given to these don’t always reflect what the customizations will…
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Linux – Kubuntu 16.04 with Plasma 5.5.5 – unable to change file associations
I just upgraded my laptop (Lenovo ThinkPad T540P) to the latest version of Kubuntu – 16.04 with Plasma 5.5.5. Everything was running great until I had an issue with Ark, the archiving program that comes with KDE. It was having an issue unzipping an archive. It seemed to unzip the archive, but the resulting file…
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Linux: Getting “Find” working in Dolphin on KDE (Linux Mint and Kubuntu)
One of the reasons I switched to KDE from Gnome was Dolphin, the file manager that ships with KDE. When I made the switch a couple of years ago, the Find feature in KDE worked really well. But some time in the last couple of years, the two distributions I’ve been using – Kubuntu and…