All Things KDE5/Plasma for Slackware Users.

chrisretusn · 09-17-2023, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Regnad Kcin

I am finding that KDE Plasma is rather sticky and non-responsive to mouse clicks. I have a fast modern PC with plenty of ram and yes Nvidia graphics.
i am running current and it's been a long time since i did a fresh install. i have switched over to xfce and it is very snappy and quick.
Anyone else seeing similar behaviour?

Not me. Mouse work perfectly.

Thom1b · 09-17-2023, 11:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Regnad Kcin

I am finding that KDE Plasma is rather sticky and non-responsive to mouse clicks. I have a fast modern PC with plenty of ram and yes Nvidia graphics.
i am running current and it's been a long time since i did a fresh install. i have switched over to xfce and it is very snappy and quick.
Anyone else seeing similar behaviour?

I never had any issues with kde/plasma including on old computers.

slack-uke · 09-17-2023, 11:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Regnad Kcin

I am finding that KDE Plasma is rather sticky and non-responsive to mouse clicks. I have a fast modern PC with plenty of ram and yes Nvidia graphics.
i am running current and it's been a long time since i did a fresh install. i have switched over to xfce and it is very snappy and quick.
Anyone else seeing similar behaviour?

I am having something similar occur.

Lately on slackware64 current, with all updates installed, I have issues with select & copy & paste that menus pop up unexpectedly and interrupt the selection process. The source of select can be portions of text in a FireFox webpage or some code in a Konsole ssh session.

Does not seem to be an issue on a more modern machine such as a Ryzen 3400G system with 32 GB RAM but on an older workhorse computer running an Intel Core 2 processor E8400 computer with 8 GB RAM with a dual head Radeon HD 5750 Graphics Card.

I have attempted to tinker with mouse speed and whether it is adaptive speed or not to no avail. Was not really an issue about 6-10 months ago and really did not notice exactly when this started.

It is becoming extremely annoying if not disruptive.

cwizardone · 09-18-2023, 08:12 AM

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So let’s talk about this Wayland thing
Nate. September 17, 2023.
Wayland. It comes up a lot: “Bug X fixed in the Plasma Wayland session.” “The Plasma Wayland session has now gained support for feature Y.” And it’s in the news quite a bit lately with the announcement that Fedora KDE is proposing to drop the Plasma X11 session for version 40 and only ship the Plasma Wayland session. I’ve read a lot of nervousness and fear about it lately.
So today, let’s talk about it! ...........

Read all about it at, https://pointieststick.com/2023/09/1...wayland-thing/

USUARIONUEVO · 09-18-2023, 06:15 PM

Hello , i see new problem , but not sure if is a bug , or only in my machine for some config.

Ever , when edit a text file or script or somethinG in kwrite , makes a backup file when close to save a original file.

since some time i noticed that files not visible if not mark on dolphin "show hidden files" ...

some time back , no need to enable show hidden files to see the backups from kwrite.

I have my desktop configured "as folder"

Im alone ?

And after some months , this nasty bug persist
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469762#c1

I think since start to move code to adoption to qt6 too many bugs.

Regnad Kcin · 09-20-2023, 10:46 PM

it may be because of qt6 or it may be something related to wayland??? Maybe both???
I have been using kde5 plasma since the AlienBob ktown releases
even though it meant giving up some things I liked about kde4.
But i have gone to using xfce lately to escape from the buggy-ness that is plagueing plasma as of recently.
Wayland doesnt work well on my fairly up-to-date machine.
i am not about to cull my nvdia rtx2060 so i can run wayland.
A new install of current might be a fix -- i've been on the upgrade path for quite a while.

Regnad Kcin · 09-20-2023, 11:15 PM

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Originally Posted by cwizardone

Read all about it at, https://pointieststick.com/2023/09/1...wayland-thing/

I dont think Nate is listening to the "Lusers" but is doing his own thang.

This comment resonated with me:

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The reality is that Wayland is a failed system that will reduce the reliability of Linux on the desktop.

Edit/addition:
There are a Lot of Interesting Comments in the Phoronix blog post, and some agree with me--

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/foru...3rd-party-apps

regdub · 09-21-2023, 10:27 PM

Hello,

I'm sharing something that appeared with Sudo 1.9.12 :

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The XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP environment variable is now preserved by default. This makes it possible for graphical applications to choose the correct theme when run via sudo.

Why is it notable ?
During 15.0 dev. cycle, Slackware retained a patch which prevents kglobalaccel5 from being launched if XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP != KDE when you run KDE apps. like kate.

This is interesting for me because I sometime run kate under Plasma with another user that the one that runs Plasma and having a second kglobalaccel5 messes desktop shortcuts.
This is also interesting for people who run other desktops with another process for managing shortcuts for the same reason.

With this sudo change, using sudo with the Plasma user to launch an app. like firefox under another user launches dbus processes with XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE. Then, if one launches kate with this second user, dbus launches a parasite kglobalaccel5.

To prevent that, I've "reversed" the sudo change with this in my sudoers :

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Defaults env_keep-="XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP"

I don't think there is another way to block kglobalaccel5 with Plasma 5.23, but I don't know for 5.27.

Jeebizz · 09-22-2023, 09:05 PM

Today's update:

Code:

Fri Sep 22 21:51:12 UTC 2023

kde/ktextaddons-1.5.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.

cwizardone · 09-23-2023, 04:30 AM

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

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This week in KDE: an unfrozen panel for NVIDIA Wayland users
Nate. September 22, 2023.
Though the number of total Plasma 6 known issues rose this week, we managed to fix some major and longstanding ones from Plasma 5! You might recognize a few in the text below. Ultimately, these were deemed more pressing than the comparatively minor new ones. We’ll be continuing to hammer those bugs, but we do need help–your help! Discovering bugs is important, but so is fixing them, and we need help to get it done...........

The full story can be found at, https://pointieststick.com/2023/09/2...wayland-users/

cwizardone · 09-25-2023, 11:12 AM

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A bit on sponsorship and money
Nate. September 24, 2023.
....... I’d like to announce the creation of a “Sponsored work” category in the KDE forum! ......

The full story can be found at, https://pointieststick.com/2023/09/2...hip-and-money/

Jeebizz · 09-25-2023, 03:49 PM

Today's update:

Code:

Mon Sep 25 19:19:27 UTC 2023

kde/kdevelop-23.08.1-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
       Recompiled against llvm-17.0.1.

Jeebizz · 09-28-2023, 09:07 AM

Yesterday's update:

Code:

Wed Sep 27 23:51:07 UTC 2023

kde/ktextaddons-1.5.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.

cwizardone · 09-30-2023, 03:20 PM

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

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This week in KDE: time for the new features
Nate. September 29, 2023.
The floodgates opened this week, and a lot of consequential in-progress work was merged: juicy new Plasma 6 features, long-awaited bugfixes, spicy automated testing, and more!!! .........

Read all about it at, https://pointieststick.com/2023/09/2...-new-features/

Jeebizz · 10-02-2023, 05:07 PM

Today's update:

Code:

Mon Oct 2 19:12:58 UTC 2023

kde/kwin-5.27.8-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
       [PATCH] fix segfault in EglGbmBackend::textureForOutput.
       Thanks to marav.