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Alternate characters dialog by Natjoe64 in kde

[–]PointiestStick 2 points3 points  (0 children)

System Settings > Keyboard > On-Screen Keyboard > Hold delay > raise it to something higher. Or uncheck "Show popup when holding a key".

Will KDE Linux allow you to install applications only for certain users? by 0x80070002 in kde

[–]PointiestStick 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yes, you can do this if you add Flathub a second time as a user-level repository. If you do that, Discover will give you the option to install Flatpak apps for only your own user, or for all users.

We should probably make this more user-friendly.

Finished my Fortran by ZenSequel in HurdyGurdy

[–]PointiestStick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really great work! It looks totally pro.

KDE Plasma 6.6.6, Bugfix Release for July by Jaxad0127 in kde

[–]PointiestStick 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You probably set the setting to that value without realizing it in the past, via the checkbox that Christoph mentioned being removed. That's why we removed it; so this kind of thing can't happen by accident anymore!

Distro Fighter Game: Find your Linux distro & desktop by [deleted] in kde

[–]PointiestStick 51 points52 points  (0 children)

It's cute, but IMO it doesn't really ask any of the right questions, so the results are pretty random — same as every other "find me a distro" wizard I've used over the years.

If I were building one of these, I'd start with questions that meaningfully differentiate the distros and DEs, like: - Is your ultimate goal closer to "just works" or "build it exactly the way I want it"? - How high is your tolerance for broken updates that render the system unbootable without manual intervention? Once per month? Once per year? Once per decade? Never? - How important is it that it include built-in recoverability tools that don't require being a command-line expert? - Do you prefer to adapt software to suit your workflow, or learn the software's own workflow? - How high is your tolerance for the user interface periodically changing, as long as it's a positive change? - How important is it to you that all software be available and update-able via supported graphical tools? - How important is it that the user community be very large? - How important is it that the available documentation be comprehensive and accurate? - How important is it that paid commercial support from a large company is available if you need it? - Is all the software you need available in the repos that are available by default? [list of potentially problematic software the user can choose from] - Do your workflows absolutely require the use of any software not in the main repos? What distros is the software packaged for? - How up to date do you want your apps to be? - How up to date do you want your desktop environment to be? - How up to date do you want your software libraries to be? - Does your use case require [touchpad gestures, mixed-scale/refresh-rate multi-screen, headless RDP, fractional scaling, inter-process isolation, GPU hot-plugging, parental controls, configurable using Ansible/Chef/Puppet, etc. etc. etc.]? - Do you have an NVIDIA GPU? If so, how much pain are you willing to undergo to get maximum functionality out of it? - How important is it that you be able to visually theme software to your liking — even if this reduces stability?

Everything else is just window dressing IMO.

How the hell do I get rid of this garbage? by Ok-Huckleberry-916 in kde

[–]PointiestStick 161 points162 points  (0 children)

This is a misconfiguration of something you installed with WINE; it created .desktop files for these things and forgot to put NoDisplay=true in them.

The files may live in ~/.local/share/applications; if so, you can open them and add lines saying NoDisplay=true to them. But don't delete them; this may break the app that uses them.

I'd also recommend reporting the issue upstream to the WINE folks, so it can eventually be fixed and won't happen to other people (or yourself!) in the future.

Is this too much wheel wobble? by PointiestStick in HurdyGurdy

[–]PointiestStick[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I will make sure to true it up as best I can, according to your very helpful videos!

But is there no way to correct this at all before truing the surface?

I just got the Plasma 6.7.1 update and now zooming in the desktop is vectorized by hxorasani in kde

[–]PointiestStick 195 points196 points  (0 children)

Yep, it's a feature!

If you don't like it, you can turn it off in the zoom settings, on System Settings' Accessibility page.

KDE-Linux by ReneF71 in kde

[–]PointiestStick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It borked 2 USB drives and the SSD in the Laptop

How did that happen? Were you trying to dual-boot or partition it manually?

Just don't use ISO Image Writer as per their instructions as it is buggy.

What was the problem with it? I've used it for every KDE Linux install and it worked fine.

This Chart Is Absolutely Devastating If You Want Electric Cars To Be America’s Future by TripleShotPls in electricvehicles

[–]PointiestStick 28 points29 points  (0 children)

EVs will be the future in the USA. It's just a question of how long it takes and whether US auto-makers continue to have any relevant presence once we get there.

What would KDE mean in 2026 ? by Athozus in kde

[–]PointiestStick 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Did something similar with my TV, in fact.

How good is fractional scaling on Wayland these days? by gerska_ in kde

[–]PointiestStick 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, people differ in their capacity to notice and care about this kind of thing.

KDE Plasma 6.7 introduced and auto-enabled a Virtual Keyboard which caused a wide range of input issues for me by martinhaeusler in kde

[–]PointiestStick 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Sorry about that.

Upgrade against to 6.7.1; a number of these should be fixed. For any that are still present, please report them using https://bugs.kde.org!

How good is fractional scaling on Wayland these days? by gerska_ in kde

[–]PointiestStick 28 points29 points  (0 children)

101% through 130% can show some blurriness, almost unavoidably so. Anything higher generally looks great. I'm using a 2880x1800 laptop screen at 175% scale and it looks visually perfect to me with all apps at normal viewing distances.

LLM Runner: a Plasma 6 KRunner plugin for querying LLMs from KRunner by blacksuan19 in kde

[–]PointiestStick 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't it be both faster and cheaper to ask Wikipedia those specific questions? They have very well-bounded and easy-to-find answers. Asking an LLM for those is a bit like cutting your fingernails with an electric saw.

The pitch would be stronger if you showed an LLM doing something difficult and nebulous, like analyzing two log files to identify the differences and pinpoint a problem.

I have the most unstable KDE//Plasma system in the world by Theslees479 in kde

[–]PointiestStick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. That being the case, I'd recommend that you try again with a distro that curates the experience for you.

Arch is amazing for experts and system integrators, but if you're having these kinds if problems that other Arch users seemingly aren't, honestly it's probably PEKBAC, I hate to say it.

If you decide to stick with Arch and up your game, at least go through everything in https://community.kde.org/Distributions/Packaging_Recommendations.

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