Hello. I enabled the scale effect when opening/closing windows. How can I make this same effect apply to minimizing/maximizing windows on plasma desktop?

I don't mind writing a custom kwin rule, I just never did it before, so I'd need a little help with that :)

I dont know if the title makes much sense, but I'll explain as much as I can here to (hopefully) make it make sense. I want to report this issue to the kde team, but I wanted to come here first to ask for opinions on how to report it, especially the wording/technicality, so I don't confuse them when they look at the report.

When I install anything through wine/proton, the apps on the screen lose their focus/or their focus becomes all messed up. For instance, when I right click on dolphin or the terminal, the right click menu is now showing behind the app and I can only see some of it (when I click close to the edge of the app). If I have a browser that is maximized, I won't be able to see the menu at all, as it's behind the app.

When I bring up an app into focus from the panel, it shows behind whatever app that is already on the screen. Clicking on the app that is already on the screen still clicks the app I brought up from the panel as if it were in the front. So the app that I brought up from the panel is the one in focus and is clickable, but it's hiding behind the one already on the screen. I'm so sorry if this doesn't make sense, I'm trying my best to explain it. Hope this makes sense. If not, please ask questions and I'll answer. This issue has been consistent across distros and a Wayland exclusive one. I do have 4k monitors if that makes any difference and I run all AMD.

I can only fix it by either changing to a new workspace, logout/login or reboot.
Current distro is CachyOS

Hi,

I configured Spectacle with the following keyboard shortcuts :

• Print Screen = selected area ;
• Win + Print Screen = active window ;
• Ctrl + Print Screen = entire screen.

However, that only works for saving to file. Enabling copying to clipboard in settings only works when opening the full Spectacle app where it takes a full screen picture by default while having to retake when needing something else.

Is there any way to make the keyboard shortcut copy to clipboard at the same time as saving to file ?

Thanks

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Hey guys! I want to create a custom KDE (or is it sddm?) splash screen. I've found a couple guides that are outdated. Is there any documentation as to what goes where?

I'm on Solus Plasma. It's worth noting that this never happened on Solus GNOME which I was driving for a few months before switching to KDE.

So this doesn't happen every time I shut down, but it's pretty frequent. What usually happens is I initiate shutdown (using either KRunner or from Application menu clicking shutdown). The monitor and keyboard and mouse switch off, but the CPU does not. Fans are running, RGB is on. I can't wake it up with any keys. I can only long press power button on the cabinet to force shutdown.

Couple of things I observed:

1. I noticed sometimes my external HDD was not auto mounting when I started the PC, so I thought maybe it was automount that was preventing shut down also. So I tried to see if the times automount didn't work, coincided with the times I had to force shutdown - they don't. Even if it shuts down without issues I sometimes notice automount not working. And not every time I force shutdown I have automount issues.

2. I thought maybe clicking the shut down immediately button on the confirmation screen is what is causing the issue. I tried letting it shutdown on its own after the 10s countdown, but that also yielded inconsistent results.

I'm at a loss for what to do now.

Recently dipped into the configuration of KDE Plasma and I found something really annoying. These toolbars at the top and bottom dont disappear, when I want to play a game, even tho the game starts and is set to fullscreen mode. Additionally, this also really fucks with my mouse in a way, that I cant use the upper part of menus, because then my mouse snaps out of the window and reappears in the upper toolbar. How do I change this?

Why doesn't plasma have this feature? I'm pretty sure there is a technical reason. This is pretty much the most customizable DE in existence, and missing a small feature like this seems odd to me.

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I want to develop apps using Qt and Rust. What are my options?

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