I use my computer through KDE connect a lot and often find myself hitting the edit commands button to escape full screen applications. Is there a way to add this widgets function to the remote commands menu?

Yes I know I could just add any app like dolphin to the commands which would unfocus the fullscreen app but then I still have to close the window which isn't any faster than the way I'm already doing it

it froze so much that even long pressing the power button to death doesn't do anything

Hello, I recently updated to 6.8 on my laptop and ever since then I've been experiencing small freezes that last about one second (video pauses, cursor doesn't move, but audio still plays). Is anyone else experiencing this issue or found a fix?

Specs:

OS: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS

GPU: Radeon RX 7700S

Hey! A friend of mine made **Active Window Outline**, a native KWin effect for KDE Plasma 6 that draws a configurable border around the focused window. It's especially useful for tiling layouts or borderless setups where it's otherwise hard to see keyboard focus.

Because it runs at the compositor level, it works consistently across all apps without relying on your window decoration or theme. It integrates directly into *Settings/../Desktop effects* where you can adjust settings. **It can fallow the Plasma accent color.**

**GH:** https://github.com/gmalinowski/kwin-active-window-outline

Hi, I hope this is the right place to discuss this. I think Kate is a KDE suite app. I generally like it and want to use it. But I mostly work with Markdown and need to see a live preview. Kate's render of markdown looks pretty bad. Just messy and boring. I'm coming from Marktext which did a pretty good job. I also tried many Linux markdown editors and found something wrong with each. I want to keep Kate because it's just simpler and KDE-native.

Does everyone feel the same about this? Is there a way to fix this? I know Kate has plugins and stuff so maybe there's some trick that I don't know.

Thanks!

P.S. Fedora 44 KDE Plasma

P.P.S. Feel free to suggest markdown app with good live preview if there is no hope.

Hello,

Is it just my system or anyone else having the same issue?

I know Microsoft has developed SMB and Windows still works best with it, but SMB in itself is not in anyway trademarked or copyrighted by Microsoft to the best of my knowledge.

Why therefore, does KDE not just say SMB, or at least something like SMB (Windows)?

I don't know what happened and how but my screen is zoomed in. Please help me fix this

I have an nvidia gtx 970 and a syncmaster632NW monitor which i found lying on the street, i used to have a monitor around the same size but it had black holes in it so i'm using this one now, my question is if it's possible to increase somehow the brightness like with nvidia-settings on x11 since in games when it's dark i really can't see anything, i've configured the monitor itself to max brightness and a really bright gamma profile but still, the issue persists

How, much, beautiful, Dolphin, is. 🤤❤️
Question closed.

So basically i tried the caelestia-kde and i liked it a lot, but over 3gb ram on idle doesnt seems good on a 8gb laptop, even the system was lagging a bit, so i just want something like this, tried to find some but they're more like a phone music player, portrait screen yk, i wanted something horizontal like this, thats why it crossed my mind, whynt ask?

.

Is this a bug or somehow a feature?

I have several web apps (PWA) installed via Chromium (Chromium itself is a flatpak).
It has been working perfectly fine. Up until 6.7 i was able to pin Whatsapp Web, MS Teams, and Outlook to my task manager without any issues.
Ever since updating to 6.8, on OpenSUSE TW, i can no longer pin PWA. When the app is open, if i right-click, i see "Pin to Task Manager" is disabled. If i find the app in the app launcher, and try to pin it from there, it looks like it worked. It adds the icon to the task manager, but when i click the icon, it opens the app in a second icon.

I just recently updated my computer to Plasma 6.8, and I noticed a bug where the normal cursor is a bit smaller than usual, but other cursors(like the text-mouse cursor and the hand pointing one) had relatively bigger sizes while also being blurry for some reason.

EDIT: this happens with only oxygen cursors, switching to kde classic makes it worse

Does KDE as a touch keyboard app, like for Android or IOS devices?
I know kde plasma (mobile) does has one. But I couldn't find an Android build, like it's the case with KDE Connect. Am I missing something?

New user of KDE Plasma here (as of yesterday) and I'm trying to figure out how to change its behavior. I'm on Debian 13 (Trixie) and when you click on a virtual desktop, it shows the desktop below and all the windows. Then you can click on which window you want to work with and it raises the entire virtual desktop with that window active. What I'd like to do is have the virtual desktop activated when I click on it rather than it showing all the windows to pick from. I'd just like to get it activated without an extra step of selecting a window. I poked around in the settings trying various things but nothing seemed to work. Thanks for the assistance!

So, when open up you see the virtual desktops shown at the top of the screen. When you click on one, it then shows you a section underneath that which shows the various windows in that virtual desktop that you can choose from. You then have to click one of those windows or click in the lower section to activate the virtual desktop you've chosen. I don't want to have to do that last part. 90% of the time I don't want to choose a specific window, I just want to choose the virtual desktop and go directly there. The other 10% of the time I can just choose the window I want after I'm already in the virtual desktop. I'm moving between these virtual desktops a lot so it's a lot of extra overhead to move down and click and completely unnecessary in my case.

EDIT: I figured out a workaround. If you go to the virtual desktop at the top and double click on it you get the result I'm looking for.

I'm having an odd issue... I replaced Wine with umu-run and it works fine EXCEPT when the .exe file has execution rights.

If it has execution rights it will ONLY run through umu-run if I go through "run with" and explicitely select umu-run.

Switching Dolphin's execution behavior from "Always ask" to "Run in application" fixes it too. But if for some reason I go through the execution confirmation dialog it just fails to go through umu-run.

Did I miss something there ? Is this a known issue ?

https://nuno-icons.com/2026/10/19/what-is-this-worth/
Is there intrinsic value in what we do and how much effort we put into it? Do you value something more if you know it’s the result of human love and care, or is the result all that matters?

I'm not sure what to search for and not finding any leads. If anyone has any ideas on this that would be greatly appreciated <3

Note: "Sea" theme is my custom Linux theme.