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In application menu bar in KDE Plasma 5.12
My personal opinion, based on some reverse engineering I've just finished on this subject, is that, with all due respect, KDE developers did a big mess here.
In a fit of oversimplification, the ...
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How can I use apt instead of pkcon in KDE neon?
KDE neon's FAQ page has this:
KDE neon does continuous deployment of the latest KDE software which
means there are nearly always new versions of our software to update
to. We recommend using ...
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KDE Kontact applications fail to start. The Akonadi personal information management service is not operational
Solution
The error logs show that the akonadi verion of the mysql server that these K* applications require is trying to access ~/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/ except db_data doesn't exist, so it ...
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KDE: Power management configuration module could not be loaded
Power management configuration module could not be loaded.
The Power Management Service appears not to be running.
This can be solved by starting or scheduling it inside "Startup and Shutdown&...
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Diffence between /etc/locale.conf and /etc/default/locale
Many application softwares need the LANG environment variable to work. So most distros have a startup script to set LANG after login.
So where does the startup script read the LANG config from? It's ...
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Error while opening Spectacle
Try this:
$ sudo apt install libkcolorpicker0=0.1.4-1+20.04+focal+build1
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How Do I Transfer Ownership of Files Between Distros?
I don't know how to transfer ownership of files from an account on one installation to an account on another.
Files are not owned by a username, they are owned by a UID. The mapping between username ...
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KDE Kontact applications fail to start. The Akonadi personal information management service is not operational
Similar problem, different solution. Mine was diagnosed as such:
$ akonadictl --verbose start
....
org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Executing: "/usr/sbin/mysqld-...
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In application menu bar in KDE Plasma 5.12
Add widget called "Global Menu" for your Plasma Panel and remove the button from the title bar. KDE global menu disappeared
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Why are there so many users running together on KDE Neon?
Nothing to worry about, these are all system users created from your system or maybe some installed software. I think you just didn't look for the users of running processes when using the other OS'.
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Unable to browse my android phone via KDE connect in KDE Neon
You need kdeconnect >= 1.3.3 to solve permanently this issue.
Update:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
Check your kdeconnect version:
kdeconnect-cli --version
If kdeconnect ...
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Unable to browse my android phone via KDE connect in KDE Neon
Update: Bug fixed
With KDE Connect version 1.3.3, the problem described in this question has been solved. This version has arrived in the Neon User Edition package repositories, so you should be able ...
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Is there a minimum requirement for Plasma Desktop?
The minimum system requirements for KDE neon
Installing KDE neon requires:
64-bit PC (Intel or AMD)
2GB memory
10GB disk space
The minimum system requirements for Kubuntu (Ubuntu + ...
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How to remove Kaccessible in KDE neon / KDE Plasma 5.20?
I had the same problem, so after some digging, I found a solution that worked for me by either editing the file /etc/xdg/autostart/kaccess.desktop and commenting Exec=kaccess line or deleting the ...
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How to remove Kaccessible in KDE neon / KDE Plasma 5.20?
Preamble
As one might expect from a piece of holdover software from the Plasma 4 days, KAccess also predates the existence of systemd, and is still yet to receive a thorough enough porting effort to ...
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KDE NEON: Can't upgrade 18.04 -> 20.04: Unresolvable Problem while Calculating Upgrade
I ran against the same problem, googled a little and came to conclusion that most people solve the problem by looking at /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log and removing the first broken package.
The ...
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How can I alter KWin rules via TTY?
Ok, I managed to solve it by myself. Here is what I did:
The tutorial that I linked in the question mentioned the config key opacityactive.
I already knew, that the config file had to be somewhere ...
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Open top-left menu in Dolphin explorer with keyboard shortcut
I believe I have found the relevant shortcut. It is (in retrospect, obviously) not a Dolphin setting but a KWin setting, found under System Settings > Shortcuts > KWin > Window Operations ...
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One of monitors turns black when taking screenshot with spectacle
I tried setting the refresh rate of all my monitors to be the same, but that did not fix the issue for me. What did fix it, though, was setting my Adaptive sync to Never in my display settings.
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How can I tell when a library or package has been updated in the repository?
Using apt, you could use this to stop updates:
sudo apt-mark hold [package-name]
And to allow them again:
sudo apt-mark unhold [package-name]
Show which programs are on hold:
apt-mark showhold
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Error while opening Spectacle
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkColorPicker.so.0.1.5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkColorPicker.so.0.1.4
as a temporary solution
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KDE Neon (a ubuntu based distro) does not start graphical environment anymore
I partially solved the problem, just logged into tty1 and ran sudo apt install xinit and startx. But still have to do it every boot.
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Does KDE Neon use Ubunu LTS point releases?
You can get the requisite information by visiting https://files.kde.org/neon/images/user/current/.
In particular, https://files.kde.org/neon/images/user/current/neon-user-20200213-1120.manifest has
...
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keyboard layout is disabled in kde
It is some kind of a glitch with the latest Plasma. As you can see on the screenshots above, Plasma can't detect the keyboard model. Connect an external keyboard to your system (or just a different ...
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Wine does not want to install on KDE neon
It looks like you're using wine packages built for the wrong version of Ubuntu (Disco Dingo, which is Ubuntu 19.04, rather than Bionic Beaver, which is Ubuntu 18.04 and what KDE Neon is based on.) Try ...
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Neon installation - Secure Boot vs third party drivers
More and more Linux distributions are adding the necessary facilities for full support of Secure Boot. That can include include configuring Secure Boot with a custom certificate, and signing third-...
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Can't boot any more efi
FINALLY i found the solution :
1) in the grub rescue mode, run “set”
2) It show me prefix=(hd1,gp1)/boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/
3) In my case, as I have KDE NEON the folder /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/ doesnt ...
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Can't boot any more efi
Because it didn’t work, I tried to reinstall grub manually, but I have the same results.
You've not actually said what you did here, so my suggestion might be something you've already tried. But to ...
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KDE Neon 18.04 - Firefox not setting as default browser
It's something with an environment variable:
I have the same problem and it seems an issue with KDE itself. I've found that the whole problem is related to the following environment variable:
...
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Kde plasma blank with mouse cursor
The issue appears to affect various users (including me!), but owing to the complexity of KDE/Plasma etc. it's not an easy fix. Some people get a blank screen, and nothing more, others just have the ...
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