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KDE is a full featured desktop environment and collection of software for communication, work, education and entertainment.

The KDE Software Compilation is a set of free, open source applications based on common tools and designs. At the heart of it is the Plasma Desktop, the successor of the K Desktop Environment that gave KDE its name. KDE is based on the Qt framework.

Some KDE software

  • Amarok media player
  • Kate (K Advanced Text Editor)
  • KWallet (KDE Wallet) password manager
  • KDM (KDE Display Manager)
  • Kile (KDE Integrated LaTeX Environment), an IDE for LaTeX
  • Konqueror web broswer, file manager and document viewer
  • Konsole terminal emulator
  • Kopete chat client
  • Krusader twin-panel file manager
  • KWin window manager
  • Plasma Desktop manager
  • Activities are groups of widgets and windows

Further reading

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How to COMPLETELY turn off system beep sounds forever for good for real

I use Nautilus to explore my files. I use a Debian-based OS with KDE Plasma 5. I use the keyboard a lot. When I press the key up when navigating files, if I'm already at the extremity of the list of files, Nautilus sends a big system beep which I…
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How can I set mouse sensitivity, not just mouse acceleration?

I can't find a single desktop environment that supports setting both mouse acceleration AND mouse sensitivity. I don't want any mouse acceleration, but I want to increase the speed of my mouse. That means that if I move the mouse the same distance,…
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Why can't I run GUI apps as root: "No protocol specified"?

I installed Debian onto my machine last night. Now, I don't understand why I can't run GUI apps from a terminal when running as root. For example: sudo -i glxgears Generates the following output: No protocol specified Error: couldn't open display…
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Difference between Xorg and Gnome/KDE/Xfce

I want to learn more about UNIX systems and I think I have a pretty straight forward question. I think I know what X is used for: It gives a standard to applications to present their UI's (among other things). But why then is there a need for…
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Multiple Keyboard Layouts and Shortcuts

I configured KDE to switch easily from a bépo (french-dvorak) to an azerty layout. I configured it with the KDE interface (systemsettings), but I guess it just call setxkbmap be and setxkbmap fr. The azerty layout is the default (and the first in…
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What does LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 actually do?

KDE SC 4.5.0 has some problems with some video cards including mine. Upon Release Arch recommended several workarounds. One of which was export "LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1" before starting KDE I decided that it was the easiest, best method. But I don't…
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KDE: how to get rid of IBus keyboard selector

Please, how to get rid of IBus service/IBus panel when running KDE? This Gnome(?) keyboard layout manager (?) can get into conflict with the layout set natively in KDE Settings. I need to switch often between CZ and UK keyboard and IBus makes it…
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How to restore Okular default (toolbar) settings

I've somehow managed to remove the toolbar and menu-bar from Okular. After I've found no way to reactivate them from "outside" – sice I can't click on Options anymore – I've tried to reinstall a clean version after removing it with apt-get remove…
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Ugly Horizontal Lines Displayed in Kate and Konsole with Fractional HiDPI Scaling

Here is a picture of the problem: Notice that all lines of text have horizontal lines similar to underlining. However, this is a plain text editor (Kate) and it does not do underlining. There is no formatting applied to this text. I selected the…
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Why do most linux distros default gnome?

Why the default desktop environment of most popular linux distros is gnome? KDE seems to me an equally good desktop environment. Is it for licence reason? historic? or else?
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Popup: Language support is incomplete – what packages does it want to install?

I'm using Kubuntu 17.10. Always after login, the notification below pops up. When I click it, it asks for my password and wants to install or remove packages – but without telling me what packages. I already searched the internet but couldn't find a…
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Storing Okular PDF annotations and metadata in the PDF itself

The PDF viewer Okular (part of KDE desktop) has lots of nice features and supports lots of file formats. One of the things I like about it is the comments and annotations. Unfortunately, all of the comments and metadata (like last viewed page) get…
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Tap-to-Click is Shown, but Can't Be Toggled

The touchpad on my laptop is a poor design, because it doesn't recede down into its housing to avoid my thenar and hypothenar's proclivity for inadvertent tap-to-clicks. In Ubuntu 19.10, using this same laptop, I was able to toggle off "Tap to…
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Run a dbus program in crontab , how to know about the SESSION id?

I need to run some program within crontab , but how can the program know about dbus session id ? it's only available for programs launched by session managers.
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How can I type Unicode characters into KDE's Konsole terminal from a Gnome desktop?

I use Ubuntu. In 'gnome-terminal', I can type Unicode code points by first typing Ctrl+Shift+u followed by the code point hex value, e.g. C-S-u 2468 produces ⑨ konsole, my preferred terminal, does not have this C-S-u (Gnome) feature... Is there some…
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