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Kubuntu is the official Ubuntu derivative using the KDE Plasma Desktop. Use this tag only for questions that are Kubuntu specific. Questions for Kubuntu are probably better asked at http://askubuntu.com/, the stackexchange site for Ubuntu.

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Questions about Kubuntu, an official derivative of the operating system using the Plasma Desktop. Questions for Kubuntu are probably better asked at the stackexchange site for Ubuntu.

Because Ubuntu and Kubuntu use the same sources, any application intended for one can also be run on the other. The motto of the distribution is "Friendly computing".

Website: http://www.kubuntu.org

Distrowatch: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=kubuntu

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubuntu

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How to get near-perfect screen recording quality?

Someone suggested I direct a copy of the unmodified X display to a file and afterwards convert that file to a general purpose video file. What commands would I use to do this on a Kubuntu system? (Edit: He said something about attaching a display…
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What is gvfs and why should I want it on my system?

What does gvfs do for me on my Kubuntu machine and why is /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor eating so much CPU time? BTW: I read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GVFS and still don't know what's in it for me, especially on KDE / Kubuntu. lsof shows…
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ssh-agent not getting set up (SSH_AUTH_SOCK, SSH_AGENT_PID env vars not set)

I set up a new user account for a friend on Kubuntu 12.04. When he uses ssh he gets this error: Could not open a connection to your authentication agent We're running ssh in some bash scripts. After looking around at the wide variety of things…
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Repairing python setup

On my Kubuntu 14.4 (which has python 2.7.6 as standard) my python is broken after I tried to install python 2.7.10 after building from source from python.org with the help of How to install the latest Python version on Debian separately or upgrade?.…
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How to solve a temporary failure in name resolution error?

I've installed Kubuntu 18.04 on a desktop with an ethernet connection. During the installation, updates were downloaded and the internet was working fine. Once the operating system is installed, every time I try to ping any website I get the…
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How to restart KDE window decorations without loosing the running X session

For graphics editing of some special graphics formats I am using a java program called imagej. This has the annoying bug that one special function tends to kill KDE's window decorations if it has too many images open. At the moment I solve this by…
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How to deal with freezes caused by autofs after network disconnect

I mount four servers (3 via cifs, 1 via sshfs) using autofs. auto.master /- /etc/auto.all --timeout=60 --ghost auto.all /mnt \ /server1 -fstype=cifs,rw,credentials=/etc/.smbcredentials.txt,uid=1000,file_mode=0775,dir_mode=0775,users…
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Turn off Caps lock when Escape is pressed

Is there any way to disable CapsLock whenever Esc is pressed. Yes, I use VIM! I actually have an alternative all-caps keyboard layout on Ctrl-6 but I find it cumbersome and would prefer to just have the OS disable CapsLock whenever Esc is pressed.…
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Opening links outside of broswer in kubuntu opens html from local kde cache only

I have this odd problem where whenever a link is opened from the shell, the cached html is opened locally, instead of through a browser. to illustrate: if I run the command xdg-open http://www.google.com in a bash prompt, this url opens in my…
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[drm:intel_cpu_fifo_underrun_irq_handler [i915]] *ERROR* CPU pipe A FIFO underrun

I'm running a fresh install of Kubuntu 20.04. Many times when I shutdown (not every time, but often), it pauses for a minute or so before showing the error: [drm:intel_cpu_fifo_underrun_irq_handler [i915]] *ERROR* CPU pipe A FIFO underrun This is…
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How to increase font size in KDE?

I have increased the font size by going to System Settings -> Font. This changed it for some applications like Konsole and File explorer. But this doesn't reflect in other applications like Firefox and Intellij.
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Ideas how to get my usb audio interface to work with Linux?

PulseAudio does not appear to recognize the Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 USB audio interface. The 2i2, however, is properly recognized and it works as expected. I can't seem to get the 6i6 to work on the same system where the 2i2 worked. Both are said to…
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Why is Linux kernel killing processes when it has 14GB free memory, and how to fix it?

Output of free showed that my applications only use 2GB, swap was not used at all. Yet my applications were being killed (Skype, Firefox, Thunderbird). I watched it on htop and it looked like they allocated few megabytes and got killed. I had to…
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Kubuntu 20.04 Shutdown/Reboot Hangs At "Waiting for process: crond"

I'm running Kubuntu 20.04. 3 out of 4 times when I shutdown or reboot, it hangs at: Reached target Reboot. systemd-shutdown[1]: Waiting for process: crond I've spent a fair bit of time googling, but have unable to figure out why it's doing this.…
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Set the time of notifications in Plasma 5

The notification popups stay too long on the screen in my opinion. How to modify the number of seconds notifications are displayed? I see no such option in any of the notification settings. (Kubuntu 18.04 - Plasma 5.12.7)
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