Questions tagged [kde5]

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How to disable KDE Wallet?

I'm using Ubuntu Maverick (Gnome), a month ago I updated like usual whenever Update Manager informed me of new updates. The thing that happened is that a program called kdewallet got installed on my machine, and every time I try to do something that…
David Weng
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How to send KDE5 desktop notification from a bash script?

I've tried a number of options, none of them worked: notify-send 'text' kdialog --passivepopup 'text' 5 qdbus org.kde.knotify /Notify event "event" 'app' "(" ")" 'title' 'text' 'pixmap' '' 5 0 Update: first two options should work, in my case the…
int_ua
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sddm blocks screen with on-screen keyboard in Ubuntu 20.04

I have recently installed KDE 5 ( kde-plasma-desktop ) on Ubuntu 20.04, and as part of the installation, it asked me to switch the login screen manager to sddm . When sddm starts (either on boot, or after logging out) it blocks the screen with a…
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where should I put my .desktop files in kde plasma?

In the Gnome desktop environment I can create a shortcut to an application by placing the .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications/, like this: cat > ~/.local/share/applications/vscode.desktop <<EOL [Desktop Entry]…
opensas
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KDE5 shortcut for moving window to another workspace

How do I set a shortcut for moving a window to another virtual desktop (e.g. ctrl-alt-shift-[arrow] to drag it to an adjacant workspace), in KDE Plasma 5.x? I could not find this in the settings, and searching the web did not help either.
Yatoom
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How to restart KDE 5 interface?

How do I restart KDE5 interface from the command line without having to do a logout?
Three Diag
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akonadi services and mysqld use too much memory in kubuntu 16.04

I recently installed kubuntu 16.04 on my Dell studio xps 1640 that has 8GB of Memory installed. Everything is working fine but Something is really bothering me. After a fresh boot up, when i check the system resources, mysqld occupies about…
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Does anything useful happen during the KDE Plasma5 splash screen load delay? It seems to just waste time

As far as I can tell the startup splashscreen after logging in on Kubuntu with Plasma5 seems to be a pointless busy loop that locks up the user interface for several seconds while nothing is achieved and everyone would be better off disabling it. Is…
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How to assign keyboard shortcut for moving to next virtual desktop in kde plasma 5?

In desktop environments like Unity, Cinnamon, MATE, the combination Ctrl + Alt + ← / → changes the workspace. How to assign custom keyboard shortcuts in kde plasma 5 to change workspaces (i.e. virtual desktops)?
Archisman Panigrahi
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How do I resize the application launcher / start menu in Kubuntu 20.10?

I have a fresh install of Kubuntu 20.10. How can I resize the start menu? Because it is gigantic!
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How to use KDE global menu with Firefox?

I would like Firefox to use the global menu on KDE Plasma 5.19 running on X11. The widget set for both GTK and KDE is Breeze. I am currently using Kubuntu 20.10, but also have machines running 18.04 and 20.04. Global menu does work on 18.04, but not…
xiota
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Can't change language back to English in Kubuntu 19.04

Problem: In Settings -> Regional Settings, I added language Marathi and Hindi to see how it works and what it translates(I know Marathi, and Hindi). After I rebooted, the language was changed to Marathi. Now, I wanted to revert back to English, as…
Sanmay Joshi
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Plasma 5 keyboard "Alt+1"

I use KDE plasma 5.10.1 . I use Alt+1 ... Alt+10 to change tabs in web browsers or konsole . my problem is Alt+1 not working in plasma desktop and i always replace /usr/bin/kglobalaccel5 to /usr/bin/kglobalaccel for fix this problem . For a long…
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Why show desktop (with alt tab) in kde renders alternatively two different things?

If I use task switcher to show the desktop, I obtain the first time: The second time: And so on further. Why?
jasmines
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Using KDE Connect through Internet

As far as I know, Connect requires to have both PC and smartphone to be in same sub-network. But this is very disapointing for me. Because I have unlimited mobile internet and never use wi-fi at my home. I'm really new with KDE Connect and I really…
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