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KDE's plasma Desktop Environment.

Plasma is the Desktop Environment in KDE Software Compilation. Questions regarding plasma should be those related to the Desktop Environment (panel, widgets, activities view etc), as opposed to the underlying KDE libraries.

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Show the Task Switcher on the center of the desktop

I am working on KDE plasma 5. When strike Alt+Tab to switch applications, they are displayed on the left side of the screen. How could enable them to be displayed on the center of screen like in Gnome? The Task Switcher settings don't provide such…
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How to have ksysguard launched instead of just limited "System Activity"?

System Activity is annoying. It's displayed "always on top" and you can't turn off this feature. Not really convenient. Also, you can't see other tabs that are shown by default in ksysguard.
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How to disable the Plasma 5 hot zone at bottom left?

In KDE Plasma 5(.24.7), the lower left corner of the screen is a hot zone -- moving the mouse there pops up a panel showing all windows in the workspace, where you can select one. (Apparently this is un-screenshot-able; otherwise, I'd post an image…
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Ubuntu 22.04.1 wake up immediatly after suspend

My system is Ubuntu 22.04.1 with Plasma desktop. Every time I click suspend/sleep button, the system goes to sleep and then wake up immediately. I could not find the cause.
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execute two commands in parallel bash script

i have some code like this: #!bin/bash Xephyr :2 -fullscreen DISPLAY=:2 startplasma-x11 but Xephyr wont stop until you end it with ctrl+c is there anyway to execute Xephyr :2 -fullscreen and then, after a one second delay, run DISPLAY=:2…
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How to disable mini-windows when switching apps in Kubuntu

I once disabled this feature and as far as I can recall, it was somewhere in kwin's or in Compositor's Setting, but I'm totally blank now and don't remember how I actually did it before. What I'm talking about is this, below I don't like this as I…
Mohit Tomar
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Remove symbol from Desktop thing in KDE Plasma

I accidentally drag&dropped something onto some thing in KDE Plasma and now I got a libre office icon that I don't want there. See screenshot. Unfortunately, being able to add it easily doesn't mean it's easy to remove. How do I get rid of that…
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Plasma - Discover gets - not authorized message when selected Install

Using this thread - none of it worked for me: How can I "provide proper authorization" to the KDE Software Updates program? However when I click on Updates then it starts checking for any and shows them. I click on Install and it still shows: This…
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How do I programatically move the application window to current desktop?

In KDE it's really easy to setup window rules to be able to put application windows on specific desktop etc. But how this can be done programmatically (not via keyboard shortcuts) but via scripting? Particularly I'm interested to show the ksysguard…
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KDE Weather widget issues

I am running Ubuntu 15.10 wily with KDE plasma 5.4.1 and it works fine except I can't seem to get the weather plasma widget to work. I have installed it using synaptic package manager from ubuntu's repository but I get a very long message string…
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Freezing with new Plasma 5

I got some freezes with new Plasma on Kubuntu. Does it says that my hardware just gets a low standard or I can make it speed up / remove annoying freezing 1 second after any actions?
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KDE Plasma freeze when I open System Monitor application

Recently I tried KDE Plasma. There is a problem with System Monitor, Desktop freeze when I open this application. First I installed Eos with KDE plasma which recently released and then Kubuntu 23.10. My hardware is not recent. Actually very 15…
Adeel Mushtaq Ali
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Permission denied while updating

Whenever I tried to update my system Using sudo apt update && apt upgrade I found this error E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock…
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How to install Luwx/Lightly (Lightly Application Style)

Image: Lightly Colour Scheme Alpha - available through System Settings and Pling. This Q/A explains how to install Lightly Application Style to KDE Plasma. After installing you probably want to make Colour Schemes transparent, and the instructions…
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