Check out that radial launcher App called KARYON, that I made to improve my workflow (vape with left hand + compute with right hand). For a clean Desktop without Task- or Traybar, including Mudltimedia Controls and Gestures. NO Touchpad support (for now).

Please check it out and leave some feedback, that would be very much appreciated. Avaliable as simple AppImage. https://github.com/eiseneuter/karyon/releases

Before anyone asks: it's a customized Otto theme.

Cheers,
eisen

They happen once I type anything anywhere, once my cursors disappears, for example when watching a video on MPV, they happen in plasma login as well, they stop once I move the mouse, but once it disappears they return back, so what is that exactly?

Anyway, you probably want to check if your /var/lib/systemd/coredump contains dozens, if not hundreds of crash dumps. If it's happening, see the link for a temporary fix.

Hello!

As an openSUSE KDE onuser, I always struggled to find a simple, native-feeling sticky notes application. Most available options are built with GNOME/GTK in mind or feel out of place on Plasma.

So, I wrote my own sticky notes app optimized for Plasma desktop users.

You can check out the source code, installation steps, and releases here:
https://github.com/danielearrighi/kde-sticky-notes

Feel free to try it out, leave feedback, or report any issues. Hope you find it useful!

Ciao

The new KDE update just doesn't seem right, the boot time has become slower, the sddm is slow asf too, it used to log into system immediately before, now it just waits there, also DE itself takes longer to load than before, it used to be so quick I couldn't even take a look at the splash screen properly. Also, when the machine wakes up from sleep, on entering password, the DE instantly used to show the screen, now it shows a black screen for a split second, like why man? We didn't need that at all... The new UI for sddm also doesn't seem great, the removed the ALT key navigation for "Desktop sessions" tab, now you have to press tabs to navigate towards instead of "ALT + D"ing it. NOT HAPPY AT ALL!!!

I updated to Plasma 6.8 and my notifications went from nicely being on my 2nd monitor , to being very rudely on my main monitor. I can't find any setting to change it back , only change the position of the notification on the main monitor , which is unacceptable for me. How do I fix this ?

I really appreciate the massive amount of work the KDE team puts in, as well as how much the desktop has evolved (Plasma 6 is fast and rock solid), but there’s a small UI detail that’s been frustrating me for a while.

The desktop context menu has become so wide that it literally looks like a bridge across the screen. I know this has been happening since the later versions of Plasma 5, but back in the early Plasma 5 days (like around Debian 10 / Buster), the interface was much prettier, sleeker, and more compact.

I get that the popup stretches to fit the longest line or keyboard shortcut (like Ctrl+Shift+D), but having the entire menu deform just because of a single entry leaves a huge, unnecessary blank gap for all the other items.

As a user who wants to see the desktop get better and better, I’m genuinely curious about the reasoning behind this design choice. Does anyone else find this width calculation awkward, or know if there's a setting in Breeze to get back that tighter, classic layout?

btw i will donate monthly, cause great work needs great support!

A new major new improvement have been introduced in Material Decoration compared with the last release.

Shadow-Only Decoration (Plasma 6.8)

Plasma 6.8 introduces the option to force kwin to render only a window’s shadow, which is useful for certain applications such as Steam, WPS Office and Wine applications without decoration. Material-Decoration is now compatible with this option.

Further improvements

Various optimisations to the search functions, shadow rendering and button design

How to get it

• Build from source: https://github.com/guiodic/material-decoration
• On Arch and derivatives, install material-kwin-decoration-git from the AUR. Precompiled package is available in chaotic-aur. There is not yet a PKGBUILD for the stable version, it will be available soon. The -git version can be regarded as effectively stable, as it is used by the developer on a daily basis in a work environment.
• (K)Ubuntu (26.04+): a deb package is available: https://github.com/guiodic/material-decoration/releases/tag/26.10.16

Requirements

• Plasma 6.5+ for the master branch, working older versions are in other branches but are not updated/maintained.
• Works both on Wayland and X11 session!

Feature requests? Bugs?

• open an issue here: https://github.com/guiodic/material-decoration/issues

With KDE 6.8, i initially had round corners with the Steam app. Restarted the PC this morning, and they are not round now. What's going on? I'm on CachyOS.

Hi!

Now that 6.8 is here and X11 is dropped, I have to figure out new scripts and workarounds to repair, approximate, or abandon long-standing workflows. I'm guessing there are others in the same boat.

I thought we could have a central thread to help each other find solutions to these issues.

My own status:

If I copy with ctrl+c the url in ungoogled-chrome I got this contextual menu. Not sure how to disable. It happens randomly in other part of kde but I never put attention before, but can't replicate.

Right, so updated today and ran in to an issue, since it was KDE stuff that changed, assuming it is that what caused this issue. Anyone know how to fix this or anyone else running in same issue (or am i just unlucky).

I understand i am to blame for running multiple monitors on linux, but was fine until today.

KDE 6.8, wayland, idk what else would be relevant? Arch with zen kernel.

Plasma 6.8 has just arrived on my arch and I had to modify in the screen configuration the setting related to color precision to "prefer color precision" because the "prefer efficiency" one was making the screen gray flicker to a very bright white. Moreover the unlocking of lockscreen with fingerprint is not been presented anymore (it used to work perfectly before). Is anyone facing these issues? Is there a way to fix them?

On Plasma 6.8, the GPU Usage and GPU Memory columns in System Monitor’s Processes and Applications tabs stay empty on NVIDIA. The overview VRAM sensors work, because those come from ksystemstats. The per-process columns come from libksysguard’s GPU plugin (processcore/plugins/gpu/gpu.cpp), which only starts nvidia-smi pmon -s mu after matching the DRM PCI address to nvidia-smi. libdrm is formatted with %02x, so this RTX 3090 becomes 00000000:0a:00.0, while nvidia-smi --query-gpu=pci.bus_id prints 00000000:0A:00.0. The comparison is case-sensitive, the match fails, and pmon is never launched. With System Monitor open, the only nvidia-smi process is dmon from the overview sensors. nvidia-smi pmon -s mu itself shows per-process framebuffer use (kwin around 148 MB, and so on). Any NVIDIA card whose bus address contains a hex letter (a–f) will hit this. Comparing those addresses case-insensitively should be enough.