Vibe coding is often crap, but this guy managed to surpass Apple's "liquid glass" effect in KDE's KWin without knowing C++. Pretty impressive https://github.com/taj-ny/kwin-effects-forceblur/pull/235

X11 and Wayland codebases have been split in Kwin:

https://blog.vladzahorodnii.com/2025/03/13/kwin_x11-and-kwin_wayland-split/

Hi #Linux,

What do you primarily use for interacting with your systems?

Feel free to boost!

Tumbleweed now offers #Wayland support for #LXQt! Try it with #Labwc, #KWin, #Wayfire, #Hyprland & more. Experimental but exciting! #openSUSE #OpenSource https://9to5linux.com/opensuse-tumbleweed-now-offers-wayland-support-for-the-lxqt-desktop

#LXQt now supports #Wayland in #Tumbleweed! While experimental, it's a big step forward. Explore compositors like #KWin, #Sway, and more! #openSUSE https://news.opensuse.org/2025/01/13/LXQt-Wayland-support-is-now-here/

#alacritty doesn't have a Quake mode, so I did it myself https://store.kde.org/p/2236439/

(KWin only, but should work with any terminal software, or really anything that has one main window that opens at startup)

Happy new year! Still 3h15 left in 2024 around here, but I wish everyone has a fulfilling 2025!

As a long time #KDE #plasma6 / #kde_plasma user I have to say things just become worse and worse and I blame the #singleuser #development syndrome, where developers think there will always be one singe user logged in to a system at one time on a #multiuser system as #Linux
On my #laptop that I'm the only user Plasma6 works fine, but on a desktop computer which I share, things are completely different , plasmashell keeps on crashing or freezing (the panel becomes just a grey empty entity) and when switching between users, the audio is missing and the whole desktop freezes until plasma finds the audio device and reattached it, which happens like a minute after you have switched.

Another example is ksnip which don't handle multiple users at all, it seems that the first user who starts it will be the one running it, but the second user then can control the first users ksnip session.

The only reasons I still use plasma are the following

- #kwin is the only window manager I have found that allows me to disable all shortcuts for a specific app, this is so valuable when run a virtual machine, as you want all shortcuts to be for that instance than your own host.

- window manager that allows me to have close button on the left side of the title bar and the minimize/maximize on the right side.

- in window dialog the OK come to left of Cancel (yeah more of a #qt thing)

- Uses qt

- dont' use #CSD (this just makes everyone to use their own look for the window title and suddenly you have the messed up look from #microsoft instead of the uniformed look)

I have tried #lxqt but something causes the title bar to kwin to be twice as big as running with the same settings in plasma and it's not as keen on using kwallet where all my passwords are stored.

Oh dang #Kwin has (some) native tiling support finally.

https://www.reddit.com/r/kdeneon/comments/1b3403r/quick_guide_to_kwin_tiling/

@binarytango use the Meta+T shortcut to customize your layout in whatever way you want or to load a layout preset (button upper right corner).

When moving windows, press Shift to toggle the usage of this layout.

Apparently, when saving an image with Firefox running under KWin / Wayland, I am supposed to enter the filename into the window decoration (aka title bar) now.

I stand by my opinion: Client-side window decorations are a bad idea for two major reasons: They add inconsistency and make it more inconvenient to kill frozen graphical applications.

Regarding inconsistency: Other applications on my systems have a close button at the top right, drawn by the window manager. When my muscle memory guides me to click that button, I expect the application to be closed or the current dialog to be cancelled. Here I have the save button, doing quite the opposite of cancelling the current action. Apart from that, it looks completely different from every other window decoration – not to say it looks uglier either.

Regarding killing frozen applications: KWin has this nice feature to pop up a dialog asking users whether they want to kill the application, when they click on the close button and the application does not respond. This obviously cannot work with client side decorations. While that's just an inconvenience to me, it might be a bigger problem for novice users.