I am trying to run a Plasma session as a different user from bash by running sudo -u $TARGET_USER dbus-launch --exit-with-session startplasma-wayland.

However, when trying to do so, I get an error "Could not create wayland socket".

My goal is to start a Plasma session as a specified user, wait for the user to log out and continue running the script.

• Does anyone know how I might be able to fix this error?
• Do you know of another way to start a Plasma session as a different user and wait for the session to exit?

I also tried to do the same using the sudo --preserve-env --set-home XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/users/$(id -u $TARGET_USER) switches.

When doing so, I get the following messages repeatedly:

No backend specified, automatically choosing drm
kwin_core: Failed to take control of /org/freedesktop/login1/session/_311 session. Maybe another compositor is running?
kwin_wayland_drm: Failed to open drm device at "/dev/dri/card1"
kwin_wayland_drm: No suitable DRM devices have been found

However, logging in to the tty with the $TARGET_USER directly and running dbus-launch --exit-with-session startplasma-wayland works properly as expected.

Here is the needed desktop file

Place it in ~/.local/share/applications/

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Keep up with the exciting news coming out of the KDE apps projects with "This Week in KDE Apps"!

In this issue: NeoChat emojis, Itinerary seats, Gwenview speedups and Android support tweaks, among other things.

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/09/16/this-week-in-kde-apps/

Note that this week it is on Monday, but we will be posting about all KDE app news on Sunday from now on.

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Hi! I installed latest Plasma in Arch Linux recently, configured everything in Spanish from Argentina. I noticed the hour was in AM/PM format, and when I went to customize it and chage it to 24hr format, I now get a mixture of Spanish and what I think are default untraslated strings. I tried to change the language setting systemwide from the settings but without success. Any ideas on what is it that I'm missing?

#Kdenlive 24.08.1 is out and we urge all to upgrade. This version fixes recent playback and render regressions while fixing a wide range of bugs.

https://kdenlive.org/en/2024/09/kdenlive-24-08-1-released/

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This week in Plasma: 6.2 beta release!

https://pointieststick.com/2024/09/13/this-week-in-plasma-6-2-beta-release/

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Plasma 6.2 Beta has been released... Beta testers assemble 🦸‍♀️!

Please grab it, test it, submit bug reports. Final release will be on the 8th of October.

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.1.90/

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I have a few dodgy cheap SSDs, so I'm not surprised by slow I/O performance in general. But my Plasma desktop frequently freezes for 1-3 seconds (including the cursor!) whenever there is high IO load, for example while installing a Steam game.

Updating the screen should be completely independent from I/O, shouldn't it? Is there anything I could've misconfigured in my Arch Linux? I'm running Plasma 6.1.4 in Wayland.

cross-posted from: https://floss.social/users/akademy/statuses/113123668949310341

#Akademy2024 report: What happened during the Akademy of many changes.

We are wrapping up Akademy 2024 today, so no better moment to look back at all the new stuff the KDE Community came up with during the event. Discover the new KDE Linux, the overhauled looks coming to Plasma and KDE's apps, what the community as a whole will focus on next, and our renewed commitment to save the world.

https://akademy.kde.org/news/2024-09_akademy-2024-report/

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Plasma 6 has introduced rounded corners for the panels. I have a similiar idea, basically the same but in a very different way.

Rounded corners for the desktop. Instead of rounding the corners of the panel, there could be an option to round the corners of the desktop. The panel here is viewed as a background object, and the focused object that pops out is the desktop, which is a rectangle, with sharp uncomfortable edges at the moment.

This could be a new and unique way of viewing the desktop, and we could be once again be one step ahead of the windows designers if the rumours about windows 12 are true. There are 1 or 2 third party little projects already trying to achieve this or a similiar effect, but there aren't any major implementations.

Achieveing this effect could be best done in my opinion with an extra included svg with plasma themes, because this does not fit all styles, and the user should also be able to turn it of, because some might find this annoying. The effect should be turned on only for the corners that have panels touching them, and in fullscreen, it should hide with the panel.

The program I'm using to achieve this effect has the problem of it not allowing clicks trough even in the transparent area, but this has only caused one button to be slightly harder to be clicked in one application, and that is gimp if it's maximized(not full screen) and has the smallest icons enabled, so if it doesn't cut too big of a portion off the screen, all programs could run perfectly fine without any modification.

This could be a very good thing for thememakers, and it can be done with very little code and almost no bugtesting, and no compromises.

Is it just me, or are you folks running Wayland with no issues? I've even forgotten I was on Wayland until I looked at the settings the other day. I have all AMD, btw. I have zero issues so far. Anyone else?

Some of you might know about the lightly qt theme

https://github.com/Luwx/Lightly

https://github.com/boehs/Lightly

And if you know about it, you know support for it in recent times has been questionable. That's what I want to change, but I need someone to help me. I have experinence in similiar stuff, like I have my custom userstyle for firefox (https://github.com/Bali10050/FirefoxCSS), I have a custom animated cursor, custom plasma themes, custom aurorae themes, a custom kvantum theme, custom color themes, and I even made a custom theme for gtk2 when it was a thing(that one is not on the internet, the others can be found at https://www.pling.com/u/bali10050). I have some experience in programming, but it's python, and this project is not, and I also done nearly 0 graphical stuff in that. But, I heard that qt supports css like stylesheets (https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/stylesheet-reference.html) and I can also do some very basic things in c++ and rust. Can somebody help me revive this project, or help me find where to start?

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This week in Plasma: Stabilization for 6.2

https://pointieststick.com/2024/09/07/this-week-in-plasma-stabilization-for-6-2/

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Crow Translate 3.0.0 is out!

https://apps.kde.org/crowtranslate/

No, the app can't translate crow calls 😅 But it can translate and speak human text!

KDE wanted a translation app for their Apps Initiative, and @carlschwan asked if I wanted to incubate my app. As a big KDE fan, I couldn't refuse 😍

The app is part of Extragear. I plan to submit it to KDE Gear after Qt6 migration.

I created the app 6 years ago and still maintain it. Although I mainly focused on a FOSS life simulation game now.

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The #Kdenlive team just landed in Germany for @akademy. You know what else landed? Keyframe types are also drawn in clips in the timeline.

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#videoediting

cross-posted from: https://floss.social/users/akademy/statuses/113085331565179052

The Qt Contributor Summit 2024 is happening today and tomorrow in Würzburg! Immediately after, #Akademy2024 kicks off this Saturday!

More info here:
https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_Contributor_Summit_2024 https://akademy.kde.org/2024/

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About selected PowerDevil work in Plasma 6.2 and brightness controls in particular.

It is the only file in there.