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std::string said:
Do you get to the desktop after waiting 5-10 minutes after you get a black screen?
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In one instance I had, in the others it just sent me back to sddm after a similar wait time

I had assumed something in the accumulated data got bungled, corrupted or whatever. It was aggravating.
 
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Yeah, I'm going back to KDE 5.
  • KWin no longer letting you force certain windows to certain virtual desktops
  • Clicks to bottom pixel of panel aren't registering (this has definitely been a regression before)
  • My workaround for different wallpapers on different virtual desktops (Vallpaper) doesn't work. They removed this feature in KDE 4, I think, and it's still not back. It's KDE's equivalent of GNOME's thumbnail thing.
  • It insists on auto-logging me into Gayland, despite being told to default to X11. No, I will not use your broken trannyware.
  • Autocomplete on KRunner no longer works properly
Stupid but you can turn it off:
  • Defaults to double-clicking rather than single-clicking for icons
  • The panel is now "floating", like on Windows 11, which looks pretty dumb
Maybe in a year or two. It's in a better state than KDE 5 was at launch.
 
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Trans Fat 41g said:
No disrespect, but please, please tell me this is an oversight on your part and they didn't actually exclude that. Please.
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Either it's not there, or it's not ported over my settings properly. The program in question was forced to desktop 2; it now says it's forced to "all desktops" (but it's not doing that). Maybe there's a way to fix it, but I'm downgrading due to the other stuff anyway.
 
Trans Fat 41g said:
In one instance I had, in the others it just sent me back to sddm after a similar wait time

I had assumed something in the accumulated data got bungled, corrupted or whatever. It was aggravating.
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Okay, well when I was with Arch we spent a while trying to figure out what was going on and were completely unsuccessful. A lot of users were running into this.

The "official" fix is to just use lightdm instead.
 
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Rusty Metal Skull Gun said:
Either it's not there, or it's not ported over my settings properly. The program in question was forced to desktop 2; it now says it's forced to "all desktops" (but it's not doing that). Maybe there's a way to fix it, but I'm downgrading due to the other stuff anyway.
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It's a feature I can... Live without on other, less fancy desktops, but god damn it I hope they didn't fuck up that feature or water it down. Don't remove genuinely useful workspace utilities, guys, I know the FOSS sphere wants to be as pretentious about their philosophies but come on.
 
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Rusty Metal Skull Gun said:
Yeah, I'm going back to KDE 5.
  • KWin no longer letting you force certain windows to certain virtual desktops
  • Clicks to bottom pixel of panel aren't registering (this has definitely been a regression before)
  • My workaround for different wallpapers on different virtual desktops (Vallpaper) doesn't work. They removed this feature in KDE 4, I think, and it's still not back. It's KDE's equivalent of GNOME's thumbnail thing.
  • It insists on auto-logging me into Gayland, despite being told to default to X11. No, I will not use your broken trannyware.
  • Autocomplete on KRunner no longer works properly
Stupid but you can turn it off:
  • Defaults to double-clicking rather than single-clicking for icons
  • The panel is now "floating", like on Windows 11, which looks pretty dumb
Maybe in a year or two. It's in a better state than KDE 5 was at launch.
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I remember saying the same thing about KDE4 15 years ago. Wound up using MATE more than anything and would still be using Gnome 2 if I could.

Any decade now the effeminate euros of KDE foundation will detroon themselves and get it together.
 
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SilentDuck said:
I remember saying the same thing about KDE4 15 years ago. Wound up using MATE more than anything and would still be using Gnome 2 if I could.

Any decade now the effeminate euros of KDE foundation will detroon themselves and get it together.
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I keep threatening to try the Trinity Desktop Environment. I've got fond memories of KDE 3, it's the first one I used.
 
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teriyakiburns said:
Hey now, KDE 4 was great... right about the time they launched KDE 5. 5 is in a great position now that they're about to launch 6. There's probably a lesson in that somewhere.
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that by the time the KDE developers start focusing on bugfixes they get bored and switch to making a new version?
 
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Rusty Metal Skull Gun said:
Yeah, I'm going back to KDE 5.
  • KWin no longer letting you force certain windows to certain virtual desktops
  • Clicks to bottom pixel of panel aren't registering (this has definitely been a regression before)
  • My workaround for different wallpapers on different virtual desktops (Vallpaper) doesn't work. They removed this feature in KDE 4, I think, and it's still not back. It's KDE's equivalent of GNOME's thumbnail thing.
  • It insists on auto-logging me into Gayland, despite being told to default to X11. No, I will not use your broken trannyware.
  • Autocomplete on KRunner no longer works properly
Stupid but you can turn it off:
  • Defaults to double-clicking rather than single-clicking for icons
  • The panel is now "floating", like on Windows 11, which looks pretty dumb
Maybe in a year or two. It's in a better state than KDE 5 was at launch.
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Go full autism mode and just use a window manager unironically.
 
Trans Fat 41g said:
Display managers suck in general, especially when they are dependencies for screen lockers. You can use a conditional in your '.profile' to treat the tty as a pseudo login screen instead, so startx runs automatically.
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I used straight TTY in the past because I was fed up, but it turns out that some applications expect you to have Display Manager running, like TeamViewer for example.
 
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jeff7989 said:
I used straight TTY in the past because I was fed up, but it turns out that some applications expect you to have Display Manager running, like TeamViewer for example.
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If this has to do with Dbus, then yeah, you need to export the variables to DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY for that bit of autistic desktop protocol to behave correctly.

Bash: 
if test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS"; then
        eval "$(dbus-launch --exit-with-session --sh-syntax)"
fi

systemctl --user import-environment DISPLAY XAUTHORITY

if command -v dbus-update-activation-environment >/dev/null 2>&1; then
        dbus-update-activation-environment DISPLAY XAUTHORITY
fi

Probably the one piece of decent documentation I got from NixOS about Xinit. Systemd garbage, I know, but this should apply to most distributions that ship it anyhow so...
 
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Poe the Sheep said:
Oh cool, Windows 11 for Linux. I wonder how many features they removed and how much shit they broke. But hey, atleast they have HDR for gayland now.
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didn't hear anything about the systray-equivalent being retarded now, so in that regard it's already better than win11.
 
Poe the Sheep said:
Oh cool, Windows 11 for Linux.
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I don't see why you would say that. Other than the wayland thing (a very stupid decision), it seems to be mostly minor iterations on existing features. Most of the change is updating the underlying tech to a newer version of qt. If anything, that's the opposite of windows 11, which was entirely about grand, yet superficial changes to the UX while underlying technical issues were ignored or perpetuated.
 
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Welcome to Plasma 6!

It's like Plasma 5, but we're stealing the foundations from your house and shitting in your mouth.

Look! Floating taskbars!

...

I'm still not switching to Gnome.

Is IceWM still a thing?
 
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