KDE Plasma Features You Might Not Know About ...

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► Chapters:

00:00 - KDE Plasma can be difficult ...
00:20 - Dynamic Lock Screen
01:37 - The Overview Effect
02:03 - Screen Edges Triggers
02:40 - Enhancing your Desktop
04:08 - Flatpak Integration
04:43 - KWin Scripts
05:39 - Removing Themes and native Window Blur
06:48 - Global Menu
07:30 - Conclusion

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► Description Tags:

kde plasma features, kde plasma 6 features, kde plasma zoom, kde plasma desktop effects, kde plasma customization, kde plasma 6 customization, things you don't know about, linux tips and tricks, linux tips and tricks for beginners, kde plasma for beginners, michael horn

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#linux #opensource #kdeplasma

[Treviath]

If you want recommendations on cool plasma features, in the Desktop Effects settings there are several. Enable Mouse Click Animation to visualize click when recording a video. On the same topic enable Mouse Mark so that you can draw directly on the screen to highlight things. Then there's Shake Cursor to make the cursor bigger if you shake it in case you lose sight of it.

[xNaxdy]

3:30 you can also just share a subregion of your screen in Plasma 6. I built that feature for this exact reason, because I have a huge ass monitor and people cannot see anything if I share the entire thing.

[FengLengshun]

Yes! I use ALL of these and this why KDE Plasma is just the best for me. Once you start moving to other DEs or, at work, Windows- all of the missing conveniences start to pile up and even when you can restore some of it with apps and extensions it just doesn't work as well and together like in Plasma.

[michaelluckymaximus]

Would like to add not sleeping on Color Schemes. Seriously, one color can make the whole Breeze theme look like an entirely different one. Optimal and Breeze-Solarized are good examples of this.

[lizer]

Another great effect in plasma is the widget called "Panel Colorizer". It makes your dock customizable alot, you can even remove the background of the dock and leave only the icons, and give a different color. With some combination you can make the dock transparent and blurred (Panel Colorizer + Force blur). Another visual effect is the "Geometry Change" that gives a satisfying/smooth scale when rescaling a window using a tiling window manager (like kronhkite)

[xNaxdy]

7:36 also global menu works with DaVinci Resolve. Only under Wayland though. And if you're running it in some sandbox / distrobox-like thing, you need libdbusmenu in that container (perhaps another package as well, cannot remember atm).

[Chrns]

There are cli tools that can control your desktop theme as well. A simple one is apply-plasma-lookandfeel. You can use these to script swapping between themes (such as light and dark) then use the task scheduler to automatically swap themes based on the time of day (similar to what macOS does). The only downside is it's not necessarily tied to the sun, you just set specific hours. It is completely customizable though (you could set different hours based on the season or something to approximate it).

As a note though, the lookandfeel command sets the mouse cursor but it doesn't seem to apply immediately. Set the cursor theme first, then the global theme.

[OraOraOra]

You know the video is going to be great, if Michael shows stuff in GNOME or KDE!
Banger, as always!

[MaisistkeinGemuese]

Please make more! While it's very easy to find a Video that explains "the Gnome way to do it" I have trouble finding the "KDE way". I know KDE is very flexible to fit your needs, but there's a certain logic and vision the Devs intended.

New KDR Users (like me) feel overwhelmed and stranded, as we first want to learn more what the defaults are, before going crazy with our individual setup.

[Ironpants]

Overview is amazing! It's like gnome's overview which is pretty great. The ability to get to each desktop, moving/organizing apps to x and y desktop, and a use of a runner at the same time is nice.

[TnMe]

I do also appreciate that you can gnome-ify kde plasma.

[LucMarGui]

I still wonder how this channel hasn't reached 100k subscribers at this point. While I've been a Linux user for several years I was just a... user. now I'm digging into distros, desktop environments productivity options and Micheal have been a great source of information. Specially into customizing my DE to my liking. Also, his presentation skills are excellent.

[nico]

Great video. I enabled Picture of the day for the lockscreen I like that. I don't get why the wallpaper isn't blurred in the overview I think that would make it stand out even better. Or take inspiration from COSMIC.

[MrAlexFortis]

Nice video, but Grid View is better than overview as long as you use 2x2 desktop grid.

[robertobs]

love the t-shirt long live to our pinguin overlord mr. Tux

[timfd.w.]

Very Nice tips. I Don t know exactly why but Tumbleweed does a better job regarding to Plasma KDE than Fedora...

[ransan]

Looking forward to seeing you on Tech Over Tea.

[anon_y_mousse]

Neat, I might consider that wallpaper thing as I've had the same one for two years now and am kind of bored of it. When I first setup this computer I turned off all of the corner functions as they were highly annoying to me, but I do use the meta+w shortcut for displaying open windows every so often. I use it to find all the open Firefox windows so that I can merge them before closing the program for updates. I should probably find a plugin or something to manage open tabs, but I tend to only close it down when I do updates and those are relatively sparse.

Something you might want to try that I do is that I have shortcuts setup for pushing windows to whatever desktop I want, and I tend to keep certain activities on certain desktops. So desktop 12 gets all the media player stuff for when I'm writing code and listening to music I can just start something up. I tend to leave a process viewer open on 8, because it's an easy key to find without looking. In fact, most things go on either the first or last of a four button group. And I have shortcuts setup to tile windows. I used the numpad to designate regions of the screen so it's a direct one to one relationship. 1, 3, 7, 9 designate corners, 2, 4, 6, 8 designate halves, 5 designates full screen, and 0 minimizes.

[Makku]

KDE is a full-fledged environment. Sometimes it turns overwhelming its UX, but it's worth it. Thanks for the video. What's the name of that red global theme? Could you provide the app style, plasma style, and the colors, please? Can't find that dark tone.

[BiserAngelov]

My biggest advantage is that i came to Plasma, not from Windows, but from Gnome. So i have a pretty good idea, about what a respecting desktop environment can and should do.
When i started with Linux, KDE was version 3.2 / 3.5. But then suddenly KDE4 happened. It was so miserable experience for me, i did't want to have anything to do with KDE until around a year ago.