KDE & Plasma users

I am trying to use Karousel, a kwin script for plasma that is yet another tiling kwin script, to get it to work properly I need to disable switching desktops with trackpad gesture, but I can't figure out how to do that, I tried searching but couldn't find anything.

Just add KWIN_WAYLAND_SUPPORT_XX_PIP_V1=1 to your env vars. For eg:

1. nano ~/.config/environment.d/90-wayland-pip.conf (or use your fav editor)
2. paste KWIN_WAYLAND_SUPPORT_XX_PIP_V1=1 and save (ctrl x, y)

This only works in Firefox at the moment AFAIK. But with this you get proper PiP without any kwin/application rules. Its an experimental protocol but it has worked really well for me so far.

Honestly it should be enabled by default since the current default PiP experience is basically a standard window ie it doesnt exist. Leaves a bad impression if something common like this doesnt work imo.

From the blog post:

So I fired up Cyberpunk 2077 with the “low” graphics preset and it went from 27 fps with Mesa main to 50 fps with linux-dmabuf v6. That’s more than 80% better performance!

One of the big limitations mentioned is that this requires the game to be run using Wine Wayland, which requires a proton fork (like Proton-GE or Proton-Cachyos).

Also while this is about the Plasma/Kwin implementation, presumably other compositors will get the performance improvement too, once they implement support for the protocol.

I made a small tool for exactly this annoyance on Plasma: You want a different icon for one application, but you don’t want to switch your entire icon theme, and you don’t want to dig through .desktop files every time. kAppIcon lets you:

Map a custom image, another app’s icon, or a single glyph from any installed icon theme (WhiteSur, Tela, Breeze, Papirus, etc.) to one launcher Do it completely user-level (no root) Batch-apply the same icon to multiple apps Undo the last change Create/edit icons with a simple pixel editor See all your overrides and reset them cleanly

It’s built specifically with Plasma in mind, but works on other freedesktop desktops too. Repo + install instructions: https://github.com/rayman1972/kappicon Also available on the AUR (kappicon / kappicon-git). Feedback welcome. Bugs can be reported via 'issues' in the project.

I switched to it immediately and have been using it ever since. I can never go back to Breeze. It's so beautiful.

Trying to set up a tablet with Linux, and I got everything set up with Kubuntu, only to realize that I can't sign in because the on-screen keyboard doesn't work on the lock/login screen. Should I be trying another distro with Plasma, or find something else?

I recently wanted to auto update my plugins but didnt want to use discover. Instead I found this nifty tool for it. Not made by me.