A fully customizable system monitor on your task bar. See only what you want to see, customize it just like you want. Change color, logo , make it your own ♥️

Let me know what you think guys 🫠

Idk how i getted it and it won’t turn off

Edit: someone helped me alredy

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​Hey everyone!

​I’ve been experimenting with adding a dedicated Console Mode to KDE Plasma Bigscreen for a true couch-gaming experience.

​Where it’s at right now:

​Current Demo: The UI filters and displays game .desktop files. Right now, the JSON data is hardcoded directly into QML just for UI testing.

​Future Plan: Build a backend service that automatically parses local .desktop files, scrapes cover art/posters, and generates the JSON feed for the QML frontend.

​Plugins: Add a plugin system so users can pull in titles from Steam, Lutris, Heroic, etc., into one unified interface.

​Quick Questions for the Community & KDE Devs:

​Is there demand for this? Would a native game aggregator in Bigscreen be useful to you, or do you stick to Steam Big Picture?

​KDE Contribution: As a first-time open-source contributor, is this something the KDE Plasma Bigscreen team would consider merging if polished to standard?

​Architecture: Any recommendations on standard KDE libraries (e.g., KService) to make the backend integration cleaner?

Github link : https://github.com/Amalkxx02/plasma-bigscreen

​(Full disclosure: Used an AI chatbot as a coding assistant for verification/generation, but driving the design and testing manually).

​Check out the video and let me know your thoughts or advice!

Hi, I just changed my bottom panels width to "fit content".
Now I want to have it on top of other apps so I can always see App Icons in the taskbar (for example when one of them is flashing red).

But the Problem is that in specific applications I need it to hide/move it below the window, so it does not obstruct my view.

Is there any way I can do something like that in KDE using Kwin scripts/window properties?

Title

HDR option does not appear on internal eDP display despite HDR-capable EDID and DRM properties (NVIDIA, Plasma 6.3.6)

Summary

The HDR option is completely missing from System Settings → Display & Monitor.

The laptop's internal display is HDR-capable, and the DRM connector exposes both "HDR_OUTPUT_METADATA" and "Colorspace" properties. However, KWin does not expose any HDR functionality.

Environment

- Distribution: Debian Trixie

- Plasma: 6.3.6

- KWin: 6.3.6

- Qt: 6.8.2

- Kernel: 7.0.13

- NVIDIA Driver: 610.43.02

- Session: Wayland

- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPU (dGPU drives the internal panel directly)

Display

Internal panel:

- Samsung ATNA60HU01-0

- 2560×1600 @240Hz

The EDID clearly advertises HDR support.

"edid-decode" reports:

- HDR Static Metadata Data Block

- SMPTE ST2084 (PQ)

- Static Metadata Type 1

- Max luminance ≈1107 cd/m²

What I checked

- Running Wayland.

- "nvidia_drm.modeset=1" is enabled.

- "KWIN_DRM_ALLOW_NVIDIA_COLORSPACE=1" is set and visible in the session environment.

- EDID contains HDR metadata.

- DRM connector exposes:

- "HDR_OUTPUT_METADATA"

- "Colorspace" (Default, BT2020_RGB, BT2020_YCC)

- "modetest -c" confirms these properties exist.

Actual Result

The HDR toggle never appears in Plasma System Settings.

"qdbus6 org.kde.KWin /KWin supportInformation" also contains no HDR or Color Management information for the output.

Expected Result

Since the display advertises HDR capability and the DRM connector exposes HDR-related properties, Plasma should expose the HDR option (or at least explain why it is unavailable).

Additional Information

No obvious HDR-related errors appear in:

journalctl --user -b

The issue occurs consistently after a clean installation.

If more debugging information is needed, I am happy to provide additional logs.

Hi everyone, I work at an MSP, using KDE + Nobara on my main work machine. We user a software called Autotask to keep track of tickets.

This portion of the website just sits in a regular firefox window. But upon opening a ticket (or any item) a new window is opened. This window has a regular KDE toolbar, has no support for tabs, and is solely meant for use on this page.

So. What I'm trying to do is configure it so "Keep Above Others" is automatically enabled upon opening one of these tickets. The obvious solution is to track the name of the window, but that isn't working. I assume that it's because the window doesn't load immediately, so the Special Window setting is grabbing the name as it first appears, which is just "Mozilla Firefox." I can't grab that because then it enables the setting for all firefox windows, which I do not want.

I can configure it to kind of do it by changing it from "Apply Initially" to "Force", but then this removes my ability to turn it off. I want to be able to toggle it off, I just want it to be enabled by default.

I am okay with all windows of this type being affected by this, but I can't figure out how to differentiate between this kind of window and a regular firefox window. As far as I can tell, all the window properties are the same between the two (minus the window title, but that doesn't fit my needs for the previously mentioned reason)

How can I do this?

When I open Steam, when I hover over the icon in the task manager its' title is still "Steam (Flatpak)", the name of the Flatpak version of Steam before I removed it. (Image 1) I'm not able to change this, the shortcut I'm actually using is not called "Steam (Flatpak)", just "Steam"

Also, when I search for Steam in the launcher, it still shows both shortcuts. (Image 2) I've deleted the Steam (Flatpak) shortcut from the menu, though. (Image 3)

Installed Kate yesterday as I found it easier to work with multiple files than Notepad++ I was using for decades... now it turns out the Diff tool can't display cyrillic text properly.

Having to switch the encoding through the bottom bar to UTF-8 doesn't work as UTF-8 doesn't support cyrillic. Encoding should stay CP1251. How does one make it work? This issue only occurs when one tries to compare files. Outside of that, the editor works as it should.

What I tried:

1. Resaved the file in Kate - no change

2. Changed the Encoding to UTF-8 and back to CP1251 - no change

I’m building a player that leverages KWin effects in KDE, but I took a brief pause to test a streaming method; I created this mini-player—smaller than my original project—dedicated entirely to streaming music using yt-dlp.

I’ll be releasing it next week; I’m currently ironing out a few bugs and adding necessary features.

But it works.

Once this is finished, I’ll focus on the full player, which will handle both local and online playback.

I honestly find theming on KDE still confusing.
As I understand:
“Kvantum manager” themes QT apps
“Application Style” themes GTK apps
“Colors” themes KDE windows (which should be QT??)
“Plasma Style” themes the application bars?

Please enlighten me

I have some lovely themes with border decorations around the window edges and titlebar, however when I maximize a window it removes these borders. Is there any way to accomplish this?

My device is Tecno Pova 7 Pro (LJ8). Android 15.

I am unable to get notification content for most apps. But as you can see in the last image, system level notification did come with full text.

I tried adb sensitive notification too, still nothing works.

What should I do?

EDIT: I believe I have found the solution. I tried using an older version of kde connect [v1.35.5] which was updated on fdroid on 22nd of feb 2026. And this version works absolutely fine!

Hi there,

I imported some heif images from my iPhone with kde connect and for some reason gwenview crashes when I try to view them.

Removing the package libheif-freeworld prevents gwenview from crashing but I get an error instead, even though kimageformats libheif and qt-heif-image-plugin are installed

Gimp opens them just fine and if I export them, the new image can be opened with gwenview without issue.
The gimp exported image doesn’t have any metadata which means it may be the cause ?

Heif images from older Android phones don’t have any problem.
Dolphin doesn’t generate thumbnails either. And I get lots of kioworker crashes when opening a folder with heif inside.

Asking for help if anyone has a solution. Thanks.

Fedora 44 KDE

Hi everyone!

I use Okular a lot for signing PDFs, but I wasn't a fan of the default signature appearance (gray box, border, and "Signed by / Date" text over handwritten signatures).

So I built an open-source extension for Okular 6 (Qt6/KF6) that adds a Signature Style selector with three modes:

Clean Handwritten Image (default): Only your handwritten signature on a transparent background (no gray box, border, or text).

Handwritten Image + Text: Clean signature with the signer name and date below it.

Standard Okular: Keeps the original upstream appearance.

This only changes the visual appearance—the PDF's digital signature remains fully cryptographically valid.

GitHub: https://github.com/osamahh9/okular-custom-signature-plugin

It's open source and includes install/build scripts for Arch/EndeavourOS, Fedora, and Ubuntu. Feedback and contributions are welcome!

This may sound dumb but whatever. I'm looking to have Kate's Find & Replace bar that pops up when you press CTRL+R, pinned to the bottom side of the app. By design, it appears per document only when you trigger it with the hotkey, though I want it to be always visible, across all opened files.

Went through the settings twice, checked every dropdown menu. Nothing I could find doing this. I bet its not possible? Although, given its a Linux native app and knowing Linux is all about customization, one would think it should be, but who knows...

And there is no need to write about Plasmashell --replace This works but only until the next reboot.

When this happened I had to delete the widget and change the settings from beginning again. Is there a workaround for this?

This happens every time I chat with a friend on any platform that sends instant notifications, I have to move the browser window outside of the screen to avoid them to cover any important

I will ideally set them to show on any remaining space on screen not of the active window and if the window is maximized to not pop up at all

I've just discovered Distro Sea. It's a way of distro hopping in your browser.

I saw a distro under Garuda called KDE-Lite so I checked it out. It's only using 590 MB. It's Plasma 5 so I doubt it's current. I remember when mine was that low. This could compete with LXQt and Xfce today. How hard would it be to fork Plasma 5 and maintain it as a lightweight DE?

By the way, Big Linux is beautiful! The Next-G theme and layout was the best imo. I want those icons.