Plasma 6 observations

[Beerislife]

I've activated it but clicking on it does nothing. Maybe there's a broken config file for Konsole somewhere that I can't find!

[claydoh]

The first one is available

I usually turn most options off, myself


The second one, you may have to pester Nico to do that, I think this is on purpose?

[Beerislife]

All I need now is the ability to right-click on the desktop to open a Terminal and stop the Panel from going to not floating when there is a windows nearby, even if there is plenty
of room between them in pixels!

[Beerislife]

And, would you believe it, Merkuro Calendar now works! I just went into:

/home/.config/akonadi

and deleted everything in there and launced Merkuro and it popped up, no entries of course, so I'll just add back my Google
account!

[Beerislife]

I found that Merkuro Mail is labelled as installed in Discover but if you try to launch it, it crashes.

I've also gone through all my DOT files and deleted everything I could find concerning Kalendar/Merkuro but no joy!

[claydoh]

sudo merkuro-calendar works fine but it's not much use to me running as root!

Interesting. It works fine for me, but I just now installed it and added a calendar from a google account, and I had no pre-existing Akonadi database or configs or anything.

My question is, where is the email component Doesn't look to be available yet, though I could swear I checked it out somewhat recently.
Mebbe I tried a pre-release flatpak. It was *very* rough and not useful.

[Beerislife]

sudo merkuro-calendar works fine but it's not much use to me running as root!

[marco07]

Thank you it worked! I wanted to use the "Driver Manager".
Mean while, I discovered that trying to access the system from a locked screen does not work either. It sends you back to a blank screen with cursor in the center not to the log in screen. So, there in noway back than a manual.reboot.I am on X-11 screen.

[claydoh]

"Discover/settings/software sources". does not open. It does not recognizes the root password

That would be an Ubuntu/Kubuntu issue, sort of, since neon has nothing to do with packaging or providing this utility.
I am going to guess it wants some Plasma5/Qt5 compopnent, which of course is not present in Ubuntu 22.04? I have no idea whereto look to debug that.
You will have to call this application manually, or from Muon Package Manager (if that has been fixed to be able to use it, it has been busted for a while)

[FONT=monospace][COLOR=#000000]sudo /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/kf6/kdesu /usr/bin/software-properties-qt[/COLOR][/FONT]

This may be the wrong way to go, but if you need to use it right away....

Oops, found it:

pkexec env DISPLAY=$DISPLAY XAUTHORITY=$XAUTHORITY software-properties-qt
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Unless someone reports this as a bug, it may not get noticed until Kubuntu starts packaging Plasma 6.

[marco07]

"Discover/settings/software sources". does not open. It does not recognizes the root password

[kc1di]

I'm confused again. (You'd think I would get used to it...) You talk about SDDM as if it were something special, but as near as I can find out, it's the default. I thought KDE was the display manager.




This is on a system which has NOT been "upgraded" to Plasma 6.

sddm is a display manger. KDE is a desktop manager so to speak. this tutorial explains display managers.
https://www.baeldung.com/linux/displ...gers-explained

[Schwarzer Kater]

KDE neon before and after Plasma 6 both use the Ubuntu kernel 6.5.0-21-generic.
Only Plasma/Frameworks/Gear and Qt have been upgraded during the recent days (and sddm).

One has nothing to do directly with the other.

[joneall]

I'm confused again. (You'd think I would get used to it...) You talk about SDDM as if it were something special, but as near as I can find out, it's the default. I thought KDE was the display manager.

$ ps -edf | grep sddm
root 1566 1 0 08:03 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/sddm
root 1569 1566 3 08:03 tty2 00:02:39 /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -nolisten tcp -background none -seat seat0 vt2 -auth /run/sddm/xauth_qqBoLV -nor
eset -displayfd 16
root 1621 1566 0 08:04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sddm/sddm-helper --socket /tmp/sddm-auth-d5a85c5e-b588-436d-8a4f-b2c8d8f7
ffa1 --id 1 --start /usr/bin/startplasma-x11 --user jon

This is on a system which has NOT been "upgraded" to Plasma 6.

$ uname -a
Linux jon-desktop 6.5.0-21-generic #21~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Feb 9 13:32:52 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[joneall]

Problem resolved today with the update!!!

Which problem? For me, the worst is the slowness.

[claydoh]

Another weird thing is if I choose any other SDDM login screen than the Breeze theme I'm greeted with a weird blue generic login screen with an onscreen keyboard!

Yes, SDDM had a recent and rare new release as well. Seems old themes, or at least the many ones based an the highly configurable Sugar cause it to revert to its built in default theme. Of course these are the only types of theme I seen to like lol.

I haven't looked at bug reports for it yet, but I may look and see if it is just a theme config or qml edit, or how easy it might be to debug.