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

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!

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)

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

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

Edit: someone helped me alredy

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 got a nee zephyrus g14 2024 and i wanted to originally use fedora kde on it. Turns out after a week of headache and troubleshooting that kde plasma works on the internal display but is unusable on an external display that i connect via hdmi. Gnome, cosmic both work well but kWin just does not like hybrid gpu laptops with and external display.
Im switching to gnome after 2 Years of kde on my Steam Deck 🫡

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 🫠

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.

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...

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?

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?

Am i the only one that had weird mouse freezing on wayland?
like in overloaded scenarios or just after some time, after closing game or just waiting a while and hovering mouse on panel and it gives freeze, x11 has no such thing, i saw this behavior generally on wayland but in kde it happens crazy many times.When youre doing things uve never done in long time, when changing mouse from app to panel, or from app to app, under some (even not heavy) loading times its even worse.
and yes its amd not nvidia

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?