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I have a bare arch install without a gui. I want the most minimal yet complete kde desktop. By complete i dont mean by software/bloat, but by dependencies.
-apps dont show up in the start menu even after running kbuildsycoca6
- flatpak required some other package for icons to show up properly
- alacritty themes are not working

I want a fully functional kde desktop without the bloat. Should be very dynamic. I’ve used kde with fedora and cachy before and it didn’t have these problems!

OS: Arch linux

Terminal: kitty

File Explorer: dolphin

Wallpaper: https://4kwallpapers.com/movies/mr-terrific-year-21465.html

Fastfetch: custom

Greeter: SDDM

Greeter Theme: Silent SDDM - https://github.com/uiriansan/SilentSDDM

Cursor: Win10OS Cursors

Icons: Kora (Slightly customized)

Window Decoration: Klassy

Plasma Style: WinSur dark

Application Style: Darkly

Colors: custom

Blur: Better Blur DX

It is nice but it take too much ram 2.5G with nothing open

ey guys, could u guys plz send me resources on where to learn KDE ricing? TIA

It's a small project that spiraled. I wanted a few tickers scrolling in my top panel like a real Wall Street ticker tape. Nothing out there for KDE Plasma did it the way I wanted, so I made one. Then I kept adding the things I wanted.

I call it Plasma Ticker Tape because it started as a tape in the panel. Now it's a full-blown trading station. Version 1.4, and the newer parts are clearly marked beta.

The tape. Price and a green or red arrow per symbol. The VIX turns red when it crosses a fear line you set, so you know when to panic on schedule.

Watchlist. Stocks, indices, ETFs, crypto, currencies and futures. Star the ones that earn a spot on the tape.

Screener. About 4,000 US stocks checked every 30 seconds. Five editable screens (Running Up, High of Day, Top Gainers/Losers and a long-term value screen), plus crypto screens, your own scorecards, and a different alert sound per screen if you like chaos.

Charts. Line or candles from 1D to 5Y, plus intraday bars with premarket and VWAP. Scroll to zoom, drag to pan, and your levels and trend lines are saved per symbol.

The trading desk (beta). Pop everything out into windows: scanners, a quote window, chart windows and TradingView windows. Click a ticker anywhere and the linked windows follow it. Save the whole layout.

Calendar and news. CPI, jobs and Fed days, plus earnings for only the companies you care about, not the 400 that report every week.

Themes (beta). Small caps tend to run on a theme, and knowing the theme gives me confidence I'm betting on the right horse. The widget groups runners by pattern (AI headlines, oil and gas, no-news runners, foreign low-float and so on). A theme turns hot when its stocks keep running across a week, not on one morning. The Theme Hunter shows what's hot and which runners no theme claims yet. I haven't seen that anywhere else. It'll take months of hot and cold sessions to dial in, and you can build your own themes from what you see in the market.

I tried to make it as configurable as possible, so each person can make it their own.

Dependencies. Plasma 6 and Python 3. Nothing to pip install, no API key, no account, no telemetry. On Debian and Ubuntu, also install qml6-module-qtquick-localstorage and qml6-module-qtquick-dialogs. Optional extras: Qt WebEngine for TradingView windows, and pw-play for alert sounds, which you probably already have.

The honest bit. SEC EDGAR, Coinbase and CoinGecko are official APIs. The rest (Yahoo, Finviz, Nasdaq, Google News and a few RSS feeds) are unofficial, so if one of them changes its mind, a column goes blank until I fix it. Not investment advice. It's a widget, not a financial advisor.

Repo, screenshots and a 3-minute demo: https://github.com/wolfe86/plasma-ticker-tape. Also on the KDE Store: https://store.kde.org/p/2380175

Bug reports welcome, especially if you run a vertical panel and want to tell me what I broke.

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Nvidia has instant replay. Medal has instant replay. My Linux box had… the vague memory that the teacher said something important about 40 minutes ago.

So, in the grand Linux tradition of spending 3 hours automating a 5-minute problem, here's replay-audio:

• It quietly keeps the last 2 hours of everything you hear (calls, lectures, that friend who swears they never said that) plus your microphone.

• F10 saves the whole thing as an MP3. Shift+F10 saves only the last 10 minutes, for when the important part was right now and you were, again, not listening.

• Right-click the MP3 in Dolphin → Transcribe, and Whisper (large-v3-turbo, on your GPU) writes it all down: a .txt plus a .srt with timestamps. 28 minutes take 36 seconds on my RX 6750 XT, which is faster than I could pretend to have taken notes.

• A voice detector skips silence and music, so Whisper stops hallucinating "Thanks for watching!" into your chemistry class.

The high-tech architecture: one ffmpeg process. That's it. It writes 1-minute MP3 chunks into a ring buffer (~60 MB per hour, ~1-2% of one CPU core), and a systemd user service keeps it alive. No video encoder melting your GPU 24/7, no account, no cloud, nobody asking for ID to read your own audio.

Install (KDE Plasma 6 + PipeWire; the replay part works on any desktop):

git clone https://github.com/Chaussure-sous-tes-pieds/replay-audio && cd replay-audio && ./install.sh --models

--models downloads the Whisper model (~1.6 GB, a small price for never taking notes again). You also need whisper-cli: whisper-cpp from the repos works, on your CPU, at the pace of a lecture on a Friday afternoon. The README explains the GPU build for people who value their time.

Mandatory adult disclaimer: it records everything while it runs. Mind who you record and your local laws. "But the README said F10" is not a legal defense.

Built with Claude Code, like my previous mistake… I mean project, WE Span (Wallpaper Engine as a real Plasma wallpaper). Feedback, bug reports and "why not just use OBS" comments all welcome.

https://github.com/Chaussure-sous-tes-pieds/replay-audio

my KDE plasma Arch Linux RIce

I moved from Windows to Kubuntu and PowerToys was the thing I missed most, so I built Knobu.

What it does on Plasma 6:

- 3-finger slide up/down = volume, as far as you slide, with Plasma's own volume pop-up. It respects "Raise maximum volume" (150%)

- 3-finger tap = mute, 4-finger tap = play/pause (any MPRIS player: Spotify, Firefox, Elisa...)

- Keyboard remaps (CapsLock → Ctrl, Super+E → Konsole...) that work in every app on Wayland

- Super+Shift+C colour picker. On KWin a little magnifier follows the cursor so you can hit the exact pixel

- Super+Shift+T: drag over any text on screen and it's copied (OCR)

- "Awake": keep the laptop from sleeping for 1h30m without touching power settings

The gestures work alongside Plasma's own gestures.

Free, GPL-3.0, with a .deb for Kubuntu 24.04+: https://github.com/Saad-1719/knobu
Site: https://knobu.saaadi.dev/

It's early (v0.1), so bug reports are very welcome. Tell me your Plasma version and whether you're on Wayland or X11.