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I use KDE Systems Settings often sometimes, especially when changing fonts or color themes I might end up inside of it several times in 1 hr. Sometimes when I open it crashes straight away.
The cause is there is some 'systemsettings' process running in the background. So the fix here is to open a terminal and kill it then try to open again.
$killall systemsettings
This is how to get Geany into light mode using KDE. My KDE is already in light mode so I am unsure why Geany opens in dark mode. Open the KDE menu and go to geany then right click > edit. Then click Applications tab at the top. In the line 'Environmental variables' add this
GTK_THEME=Breeze
I was able to force LibreOffice Writer into light mode by editing this line to the libreoffice-writer.desktop file found here
/home/USERNAME/.local/share/applications/
You can see your available theme names here
/usr/share/themes/
Orig :
Exec=libreoffice --writer %U
Edit :
Exec=env GTK_THEME=Breeze libreoffice --writer %U
NOTE THIS HAD TO BE CHANGED ON 2 DIFFERENT LINES
For my job I have many windows open across multiple desktops and I often need to get back to a window on a different desktop quickly, or pressing ALT+Tab isnt a good option because I have 5+ windows open.
In KDE system settings search for 'shortcut' then click Add New button > 'Command or Script' and use a command like this
kdotool search --name slack windowactivate
After that click 'add custom shortcut' button and press the keyboard combo you want.
Ran into a weird issue today - suddenly Brave and Vivaldi refuse to open. Same for Brave Beta. Running from the command line I see something like this
[15524:15524:0724/100844.416388:ERROR:process_singleton_posix.cc(226)]
read() failed: Connection reset by peer (104)
[15524:15524:0724/100844.550935:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(278)]
GLib-GObject: g_type_add_interface_static: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_INSTANTIATABLE (instance_type)' failed
[15524:15524:0724/100844.550956:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(278)]
GLib-GObject: g_type_interface_add_prerequisite: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_INTERFACE (interface_type)' failed
[15524:15524:0724/100844.550963:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(278)]
GLib: g_once_init_leave: assertion 'result != 0' failed
[15524:15524:0724/100844.550966:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(278)]
GLib-GObject: g_type_add_interface_static: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_INSTANTIATABLE (instance_type)' failed
[15524:15524:0724/100844.550969:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(278)]
GLib-GObject: g_type_register_static: assertion 'parent_type > 0' failed
I fixed this by chance by going into the KDE settings > Appearance and changing everything back to Breeze. And under 'Application Style' on the bottom right I clicked 'Configure GNOME/GTK Application Style' and changed that to Breeze (it was blank before). Did not have to reboot and all browsers launch ok now. Did have a slight delay with Vivaldi but it seems ok.
On one of my laptops in Gimp the text has this weird teal color on the anti-aliasing part. If I turn off anti-aliasing the text color is normal.
The text itself is white, but because the tint around it is not, it makes the text look not-white. I tried resetting Gimp to default, this didn't help. I uninstalled Gimp and tried to delete all files in /home/.config - then rebooted and installed fresh. This did not seem to help either.
The fix seems to be go to Image > Precision change to 32 bit. Before it was on 8 bit. I have no idea how or why. This was happening on brand new images, not some old / existing image that was set to 8 bit incorrectly.
I noticed in MX Linux KDE I can't see most emojis , was able to fix it by installing this then rebooting
apt install fonts-noto-color-emoji
Can now see emojis that previously showed up as boxes
Recently installed MX Linux and KDE and my wifi keeps disconnecting for half a second then reconnecting. KDE doesnt tell me that but Facebook and Spotify keep saying I'm offline then right away back online. I checked dmesg and saw this :
wlan0: disconnect from AP 4a:bd:ce:15:85:33 for new auth to 4a:bd:ce:1c:85:34
wlan0: authenticate with 4a:bd:ce:1c:85:34
wlan0: disconnect from AP 4a:bd:ce:1c:85:34 for new auth to 4a:bd:ce:15:85:33
wlan0: authenticate with 4a:bd:ce:15:85:33
This happens over and over.
The fix for me was :
