This week's new features, bug fixes and performance improvements,

https://pointieststick.com/2021/04/2...-improvements/

Again I ask, anyway to get "Modified" time stamp in dolphin to show 24 hours time stamp, I don't like "22 minutes ago", "Today", "Two days ago".

Wow, just notice this. When did this start? Years ago? ;)

Yeah agree, don't like that.

Translated from French, so labels may be different in your system.

"Configuration> Configure Dolphin> Display mode> tab "Details> Date Style"

I often use Spetacle, KDE's screenshot utility.
On the "full wayland" session both full-screen and rectangle screenshot works fine.
On the new "mixed wayland" session the rectangle screenshot doesn't work anymore for me.
Can anyone confirm this please?

Yeah, the current Spectacle release looks having issues with using the XCB backend on Wayland (and WHY it chose it, then?), so the bug described by you is present also here for the "mixed Wayland" - I confirm it, BUT there's a quick&dirty workaround:

executing it with the native Wayland backend, from a Konsole:
IF you use this often, you can create also a custom desktop file for launching this.

Thank you LuckyCyborg.
It looks like Spectable should already be able to detect when running inside Xwayland: https://github.com/KDE/spectacle/com...9c78713946d8fe
Time to spin up gdb, I guess.. :)

You can try to backport the patch, test it carefully and then eventually propose it to our BDFL to include it (temporary ?) on the main tree.

A similar thing I did myself with that KWin patch.

PS. You are sure that that patch was merged? Looks it being closed, not merged.

https://phabricator.kde.org/D11655

The patch is already included in spectacle, that correctly detects and uses the "wayland" backend.
It looks like the bug is caused by spectacle asking kwin to grab the x11 screen name instead of the correct wayland screen name.
I've reported a bug upstream https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436218
Now looking for a fix, hopefully it should be trivial since it already works for "full screen" grabs

I am quite sure that in the box where I did the test, the Spectacle prefers the XCB backend, instead of native Wayland.

With the current setup of Wayland/Plasm5 on Slackware, it's offered both XCB and native Wayland backends, leaving to application to chose which one uses. And Spectacle chosen XCB, as I verified on its about dialog.

Yes, spectacle uses xcb for itself, but at runtime it chooses a backend to grab the screenshots.
This piece of code is what determines the backend to use to grab screenshots, and even if the current "Qt" platform being used is not wayland, it checks the value of the XDG_SESSION_TYPE env var to see if the wayland backend must be used.
Since under wayland an app can't grab the screen as it did with x11, the wayland backend is just a wrapper using dbus to access methods exported by the KWin compositor.
KWin exports a few methods: "screenshotFullscreen" works correctly (that's why spectacle is still able to grab a full screen), but "screenshotScreen" requires spectacle to specify a screen name.
Since spectacle is running under xwayland, it can only see one dummy screen named "XWAYLAND0", that's obviously not a correct screen name in wayland (eg. the correct value for my laptop would be "eDP-1").
Thus the error message: Error calling KWin DBus interface: "org.kde.kwin.Screenshot.Error.ScreenMissing" "Screen not found""

merci!

I'd still like to see 24 hour time stamp.

OT - the screen locker I use shows date and time, I did find how to change that to 24 hour

Well damn, should have spent a few seconds more looking. Thanks. Now I feel silly. :doh:

This last week's new features, bug fixes and performance improvements,

https://pointieststick.com/2021/04/3...-so-much-more/

KDE5 is still my daily driver but I am not sure that the way that the pointy little schtick is directed is necessarily the road ahead. Although I could not imagine myself being satisfied to hang with 14.2 instead of -current --- I am not fully convinced that the "improvements" being made to KDE5 are necessarily making things better. At one time, I had a no-KDE slackware with fluxbox as my interface to the graphical world. I am a daily user of KDE5 now. Yes I am better off now but eventually remodeling eats up things that one liked... just sayin'