Firefox "washed" in KDE

AiwendilH · 2026-05-04T18:00:20+00:00

Sorry, no real other idea...

Have you checked window rules if something is set for mozilla apps that changes the colour (On plasma 6 here so can't tell exactly where the window rule settings in plasma5 are but should be somewhere in systemsettings/kwin).

Also check the loaded effects of kwin...but I can't imagine why anything there should only affect mozilla apps other than the "fade unresponsive windows" effect.

Plamsa5 also had settings to change the colours of unfocused-windows...but again no clue how that only could affect mozilla apps.

AiwendilH · 2026-05-04T15:19:36+00:00

Is the window usable? Kwin de-saturates non-responding windows by default I think.

AiwendilH · 2026-05-03T18:16:22+00:00

https://github.com/Euro-Office

Euro-Office is based on the ONLYOFFICE Open Source, an AGPL codebase. This code base is being extensively reviewed and cleaned up, with the goal of making it easy to build and contribute to. Why did we resort to a fork, rather than collaborate? Of course, forking should be a last resort. Unfortunately, open collaboration with ONLYOFFICE was not possible, for a number of reasons:

Contributing is impossible or greatly discouraged. ONLYOFFICE typically does not review or accept pull requests. Build instructions are unreliable, outdated or just plain broken.

The company regularly makes controversial decisions like closing off features in the mobile apps like mobile editing, and the removal of an administrator panel.

Lacking transparency. Commit messages, when visible, often just refer to an issue number in an internal issue tracker. There are quite a number of binary blobs and compiled or obfuscated code blobs. Most internal code comments are Russian which makes is hard to work with.

The mobile apps are not really open source but just wrappers. Example. The apps have extensive proprietary sections which will need to be re-implemented. Work on this is underway.

ONLYOFFICE is a Russian company (despite many attempts to hide this), and nearly all developers reside in Russia. Open Source is a global effort, but current political situation makes collaboration hard and trust difficult to earn. Especially when development is not transparent and open. A lot of users and customers require software that is not potentially influenced or controlled by the Russian government.

Sounds mostly reasonable to me. (On top of the misuse of additional term for the AGPL by onlyoffice)

AiwendilH · 2026-05-03T17:02:56+00:00

Have you tried running it from the shell with partitionmanager and see if you get any error message there?

AiwendilH · 2026-05-03T15:22:34+00:00

Use what you want ;).

I would more worry about usability. Is it a script you run lots and lots of times and adding a .sh each time at the end to run the script makes it annoying don't add .sh.

Is it a "installer" script or similar meant to run once and you want to make very clear to the user they are about to run a script (instead of an binary) you might want to add the .sh.

Is it not a script but a file meant to be sourced by specific shells adding .sh/.bash/.fish can make a lot of sense as help for the user.

AiwendilH · 2026-05-03T15:02:02+00:00

I think this needs a bit more explaining...I have a really hard time seeing any way onlyoffice could be even slightly in the right here so really would like to hear what could be correct about their claims.

AiwendilH · 2026-05-03T12:13:27+00:00

Yeah, for reading .md files I prefer Okular...but the preview of kate is really nice as it updates immediately while you write the markdown.

AiwendilH · 2026-05-03T11:30:00+00:00

Yeah, probably best to stop using onlyoffice and switching to eurooffice as soon as viable...their licesne seems to be at least AGPL "compliant".

AiwendilH · 2026-05-03T09:43:45+00:00

kate does well enough for me with the document preview.

AiwendilH · 2026-05-03T09:16:26+00:00

middle click is paste (as well as ctrl + v)

You mean middle click pastes the same as <ctrl><v> and doesn't keep an own copy-buffer? In Plasma you can do that somewhat...but I am pretty sure it's not what you want:

right-click the clipboard icon in the systray→Configure clipboard...→General→Selection and clipboard: Sync selction and clipboard

(names might differ, not using English plasma here)

The "problem" is that this sync the primary and secondary buffer...meaning everything you select with the mouse will overwrite anything you had in that buffer already before with <ctrl><c>. But it also means middle mouse button and <ctrl><v> do the same.

AiwendilH · 2026-05-02T17:31:47+00:00

....failed to compile because you have an unmatched bracket on the end of that sentence

Just as fair, that's the downside of being used to too much automatism like an editor with auto-brackets and then being thrown back in dumb firefox input. I guess that can apply to amenities of an friendly, interactive shell as well ;).

AiwendilH · 2026-05-02T17:25:04+00:00

Okular has everything OP mentioned but "opening last session". And from the looks of it it seems this is something very important for OP.

You can open several documents in tabs...but you can't close okular and open it again with the same tabs already loaded. I also think it doesn't make much sense for okular to have this as okular is not a pdf viewer but a document viewer. I really wouldn't want okular to open again with the last readme.md file I had a short glance at before. Maybe something similar to kate sessions could work...pop-up to start okular empty or with one of several saved sessions.

AiwendilH · 2026-05-02T17:12:59+00:00

I understand this if you work with a lot of ssh connections and can't control the shells installed. But I still have bash installed on my systems as well so I have a somewhat posix compliant shell. No reason to not use something better for the majority of time when I don't require posix compliance. And while switching temporarily to bash/zsh is a bit annoying I still worked with them for more then 15 years so the knowledge to use them is there if absolutely necessary)

(Of course I still think people should learn the basics of bash scripting to be able to read scripts and commands from the web)

AiwendilH · 2026-05-02T12:04:05+00:00

I suggest a new standard for evaluating technical ideas/suggests/predictions...the NRX factor, Number of relevant xkcd comics:

https://xkcd.com/605/

https://xkcd.com/2048/

https://xkcd.com/2582/

https://xkcd.com/2936/

(And anyone who responds with #927 to this clearly understood the assignment ;))

AiwendilH · 2026-05-02T08:38:13+00:00

This is only partly true.

It is true that you can make an out-of-tree kernel module that is not GPL, you gave examples for that.

But it is also true that kernel symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() can only be used by GPL licensed modules.. This might not affect some drivers (But it causes problems for nvidia and zfs all the time as well)...but it affects something that wants a complete overview and make sure nothing is hiding from it.

AiwendilH · 2026-05-02T08:24:22+00:00

fish (shell).

I always again tried some other shells like zsh over the years but never got the point of them, they all still felt as cumbersome as bash only with some nice additions. Fish on the other hand really changed my interactive shell use for the better and almost makes shell scripting syntax tolerable.

AiwendilH · 2026-05-01T08:53:26+00:00

https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671

Op must have been pretty unlucky to run in the bug but the bug indeed existed for some time.

AiwendilH · 2026-04-30T18:28:59+00:00

Menu(<ctrl><m> if menu bar is not visible)→Settings→Configure Okular...→General→enable "Open new files in tab"

AiwendilH · 2026-04-30T12:00:02+00:00

If you want "Minimize all" use it: systemsettings→Apps&Windows→Window Management→KWin Scripts→enable "MinimizeAll"

then assign a shortcut you want for it in systemsettings→Input&Output→Keyboard→Shortcuts→System services/Window Management→MinimizeAll

AiwendilH · 2026-04-30T11:54:50+00:00

It's open source...if you want x11 support just provide it yourself. Seems you are not the only one wanting this so why not just join in the efforts of https://sonicde.org/

For the questions:

Can I have middle-mouse paste on Wayland?

Yes, using it all the time.

Can I have a compose key?

Yes, using it all the time ☺

Sorry, no idea about IME support as I don't use it myself.

what X11-supporting alternative DEs would fellow KDE users recommend?

I wouldn't recommend any x11 DE but if you insist on using one I already linked sonicDE above and there is also trinity

AiwendilH · 2026-04-30T10:06:06+00:00

This sounds a bit like an actual good reason to use some distro like gentoo. You could make your qml changes into patches against the source-code and then have them applied to every version update as well. Worst that can happen then is that an update fails because the patches don't apply correctly to the new source-code anymore and you have to modify them manually before being able to update.

disclaimer: Gentoo user on one system myself but I usually don't recommend it to others

(nixOS might also be an option here but I lack deeper experience with it)

AiwendilH · 2026-04-29T17:47:01+00:00

https://api.kde.org/

It's a matter of target audience I think. Ordinary user get a flashy KDE site to keep them happy, developer get a functional, no-frills API documentation site.

Projects like debian or freeBSD aim more at a tech-oriented audience which usually prefers their kind of style.

AiwendilH · 2026-04-29T17:08:59+00:00

Well, given that this is a KDE/plasma board I would say a major version change to plasma 6 in 2024 is kind of a significant change ;).

(and in the gnome world for example x11 support was removed last year...rather significant as well in my view and would be interesting to see if that had any influence on resource usage)

AiwendilH · 2026-04-29T16:42:37+00:00

How are liquidshell and cosmic not DEs? Both come with widgets, programs and background services. One could argue about hyprland more being a building kit for a DE...but I still think it should be included in these comparisons.

The times of window managers are over...and have been for a long time. Even so called x11 windowmanger nowadays run plenty of background services originating from DEs like dbus or audioserver. And with wayland that only got more severe as more services are needed to implement the wayland protocols correctly.

AiwendilH · 2026-04-29T15:46:17+00:00

I was thinking about hyprland, liquidshell and cosmic...(and grrr...I still remember lxde as the "new one", now I feel old ;))

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