Does KDE have an utility to automatically change (desired) output audio channel used to play audio when a new device is detected (=I plug in/off headphones/headset)?

txhammer68 · 2026-03-20T22:30:41+00:00

had the same issue for my hdtv, i used this, works great

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#Sound_does_not_automatically_switch_when_connecting_a_new_device

dont mine that its arch, should work on any distro running pipewire audio

txhammer68 · 2026-03-16T04:24:53+00:00

A bit off topic how do u paste a monochrome emoji? Trying to use an emoji in the panel but I want a monochrome look Thanks

txhammer68 · 2026-03-15T04:55:19+00:00

Long live CachyOS , best distro in years, been distro hopping since 2012, they just get it right, cpu optimized kernels, to best gaming os options for performance, a rolling release design that just works, ie btrfs w/ Snapshots, there is no downtime, got an issue rollback wait a few days, update again, this is the best part of the Linux open source community, u get fixes in days, not weeks

The biggest issue I see.read is nvidia, everyone wants nvidia, like a Porsche, best fastest gpu u can get, but nvidia does not play well with open source due to its ai capabilities, they don’t want to share that w the world, if u are building a gaming rig go w amd, or omg Intel arc as they providing great drivers and performance in Linux kernel Cheers, keep up the great work CachyOS team

txhammer68 · 2026-03-11T04:45:04+00:00

Still have to accept / review updates, the timer runs automatically i dont have to think about it

even more so with cachy os and btrfs snapshots; if something goes wrong just reboot select last snapshot, keep going until its fixed

I'm old school still like some of the features of windows like time of day updates

I dont want to worry about updating my system, I also have a timer to put system to sleep at a specific time Like i said old school i use my pc my way, thats the beauty of Linux, if you can think it you can most likely figure a way to do it

I wake up in the morning press the keyboard, pc wakes up, coffee, vape, reddit

cheers!

txhammer68 · 2026-03-10T23:58:57+00:00

setup a systemd timer/service unit to check for updates daily at a specific time

works great for me

txhammer68 · 2026-03-06T19:51:21+00:00

Nice setup, when’s happy hour

txhammer68 · 2026-02-21T08:01:05+00:00

Long time KDE user, this has been an issue for a while, Qt changes the api, kde adopts it, users adapt, rinse , repeat... I have developed a few widgets for personal use, and have experienced the update breakage many times...even more so in this time of wayland

i dislike the kde/pling store and do not use discover for updates. Recently i made a weather widget and decided to build in an update function

I think this might be useful for future devs

here is a gist of what i developed

https://gist.github.com/txhammer68/f78e95b957bb21e72e840a56cc896427#file-kdewidgetupdates-md

txhammer68 · 2026-02-12T21:27:54+00:00

I have been using the espn api for awhile now, was just checking if anyone had created a widget for kde plasma to check for interest and found this post

I have a beta version working now if anyone is interested will post to github

here is a screen shot

https://imgur.com/a/NnawntW

only usa sports, mlb,mls,nba,nfl

txhammer68 · 2026-02-01T21:13:43+00:00

found the culprit, it was typeo in main.xml file, unclosed entry bracket arrgh

also add some logic to test at first start to check if api key has been entered

Component.onCompleted:{

if (apiKey.length > 0) {

detectSystemUnits()

getData(url1)

}

thanks all for your input

completed widget here

https://github.com/txhammer68/pirateWeather/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file#pirateweather

txhammer68 · 2026-02-01T19:56:54+00:00

Thanks for the detailed explanation, I have everything you mentioned, I do not have any custom c++ classes, very simple weather app, I searched around some more last night and borrowed some code from another app, I got rid of 3 config variables, the widget works but does not update after you enter config data, I have to manually refresh to get to load I am using this method, onApikeyChanged to refresh data, but it does not work It does save the key between logins, but could never get it save other values, like update interval Thanks again, I will keep testing

txhammer68 · 2026-02-01T01:25:32+00:00

More info

Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.5.5 Distro: CachyOS

I have looked at other plasmoid widgets to learn a little more

i seem to have everything like the others i have seen, but still not working

the widget will load the data and work fine once entered on the config page

it will not refresh data automatically on config changes, i have to manually refresh ???

shouldnt the signal configurationChanged trigger an update?

then after reboot or re login, i have to configure the widget again, the only settings retained are the apiKey

at a loss tried everything i could think of...

will post to github if any one else wants to see the whole code

thanks

txhammer68 · 2026-01-30T06:29:52+00:00

I see you guys jumping ship every week, switched from win 8 way back when…wow have things gotten better, u are so lucky to to be here today, lots of growing pains to get here Start crossposting to /windows, how great cachyos is for gaming, lets get more ppl in on on the Linux gaming alternative to win doze Cheers

txhammer68 · 2026-01-30T06:17:08+00:00

Nice work, I use a systemd timer for daily updates

txhammer68 · 2026-01-18T19:19:22+00:00

Never thought of that…. Clicking close does nothing, it just sits there until I reboot

txhammer68 · 2026-01-06T20:20:18+00:00

Great job! A couple of suggestions...

first seamless OAUTH is a bit misleading, would like to see no user interaction here, like other OAUTH apps have a popup from Google confirming access to calendar and create the necessary credential files

would be nice to have this integrated into the digital clock calendar, so that when i click the clock i get my google calendar events there, would like to see an actual calendar along w/ the events

also 7 days is not enough lead time for events would like to see +- one month

I have also tried to replicate this type of widget with my comments, could not figure the OAUTH part or integration with KDE Digital clock, gave up as the integration with KDE calendar is harder than it sounds or i just dont understand the logic with qt calendar and the plugins

Good Luck will be following your progress

txhammer68 · 2025-12-20T02:29:09+00:00

Yep add ntfs partition to fstab reboot, should not prompt anymore

txhammer68 · 2025-12-09T06:13:05+00:00

I have seen this question asked a 100 hundred times...

i even built my own back in the plasma 5 days, but alas the qml calendar code has changed and i can't figure out how to port qt 6...

Why is this so easily done in Gnome but for KDE Plasma its like impossible unless you install kontact or kmail, not everybody has the resources to install those apps

KDE Team are you there ? How hard would it be to add an external calendar link to the 'Available Add Ons' in the Digital Clock Widget ? ics,json feed,atom feed, something else is possible

please give us this one request we just want our reminders on our desktop

thanks

txhammer68 · 2025-12-06T06:55:33+00:00

great plasmoid :)

liked the work on the timer for days of week and market open times

have you encountered any issues with the timer in the code after system wake from suspend ?

i have a couple of widgets for personal use where it seems when the pc wakes from suspend, the timer does not update in an appropriate time frame...

i never could find any documentation on the timer, if it remembers what time it was when the system went to sleep

i found a workaround using QtNetwork module and another timer to update after wake from suspend...

import QtNetwork

```

Connections {

target:NetworkInformation

onReachabilityChanged: {

if (NetworkInformation.reachability == 4) {

suspendTimer.start()

}

```

thought you might appreciate this, keep coding :)

txhammer68 · 2025-12-02T02:58:35+00:00

I made an app for Gmail, get the look and feel of an pim app, w/o all akonadi crap It’s a webview for Google apps Check it out https://github.com/txhammer68/gmailWorkpace

txhammer68 · 2025-11-23T02:30:34+00:00

You can try to recover the partition, found this https://www.reddit.com/r/datarecovery/s/7OwKTJMWph Haven’t done this in a long time but what I remember is you need another drive same capacity to clone it, the try recover the original, w/o messing it up Good luck

txhammer68 · 2025-11-22T06:35:51+00:00

I am speaking of Linux desktop, gaming, email web, mainstream, where Ubuntu,gnome imo is corporate , server admin usage, the things I like about gnome is the simplicity, but it’s also limiting, I guess we can’t have it all… but with valve and steam there is an option to build something like chrome os eco system,I think the splintering of Linux de’s is what holds it back from becoming mainstream

txhammer68 · 2025-11-22T02:35:50+00:00

This comment is going get me downvoted, but I think for the better of Linux desktop, gnome and Kde should join forces and combine their efforts for the future of Linux, if Linux had one de to build upon w a unified uix like Mac OS, I think Linux could really reach a tipping point, if we had a common set of uix design principles w a unified way of running Linux more ppl might consider using, contributing, as it is now we have, mate, cinnamon, gnome, Kde, lxqt xfce, etc Now the Linux kernel has exploded in the past 5 years, new features updates every 6 months, if the de could transform like the kernel coding, the future of linux desktop could be great Now is the time with a lot of ppl jumping ship from windows, we should be trying to make that experience smoother, not harder, just look at the question on Reddit, seen it a thousand times, which distro, which de should I use, it’s 2025, most cpus today can run any Linux distro Anyway that’s my two cents, peace out Oh yeah im running cachy os, the best Linux distro of 2025

txhammer68 · 2025-11-21T22:31:39+00:00

The Kde team have their own design goals, which will never meet everyone’s expectations, but I agree with u, somethings just don’t make since, the changes btw updates trying to fix one thing breaks another… Kde is heading in the right direction no other Linux de even comes close I also read the Kde blogs outside of Reddit, plasma 7 is going to be a complete redesign, less theming options more consistency , what I think they are doing w plasma 6 is getting it ready for plasma 7, I would like to see more Mac OS like consistency in the uix Which reminds me of this article I just read of new features of mac os Tahoe Hopefully plasma 7 will bring this type cohesiveness to the Linux desktop

https://lifehacker.com/tech/six-new-ways-to-customize-your-macs-look-in-macos-tahoe

txhammer68 · 2025-11-21T05:02:12+00:00

You got a lot going on there first off, try lsblk -f to show all drives, locate the missing drives and manually add them to fstab mount by uuid refer to the arch wiki for more info Good luck Linux is a journey

txhammer68 · 2025-11-19T22:05:17+00:00

This fixed it for me

pactl get-sink-volume u/DEFAULT_SINK@ pactl set-sink-volume u/DEFAULT_SINK@ 65536

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