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► Chapters:
00:00 - KDE Plasma can be difficult ...
00:20 - Dynamic Lock Screen
01:37 - The Overview Effect
02:03 - Screen Edges Triggers
02:40 - Enhancing your Desktop
04:08 - Flatpak Integration
04:43 - KWin Scripts
05:39 - Removing Themes and native Window Blur
06:48 - Global Menu
07:30 - Conclusion
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► Description Tags:
kde plasma features, kde plasma 6 features, kde plasma zoom, kde plasma desktop effects, kde plasma customization, kde plasma 6 customization, things you don't know about, linux tips and tricks, linux tips and tricks for beginners, kde plasma for beginners, michael horn
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[@Treviath]

If you want recommendations on cool plasma features, in the Desktop Effects settings there are several. Enable Mouse Click Animation to visualize click when recording a video. On the same topic enable Mouse Mark so that you can draw directly on the screen to highlight things. Then there's Shake Cursor to make the cursor bigger if you shake it in case you lose sight of it.

[@luimu]

Yes very cool and innovative kde exclusive features indeed. Even windows has these built in😂

[@xNaxdy]

3:30 you can also just share a subregion of your screen in Plasma 6. I built that feature for this exact reason, because I have a huge ass monitor and people cannot see anything if I share the entire thing.

[@FengLengshun]

Yes! I use ALL of these and this why KDE Plasma is just the best for me. Once you start moving to other DEs or, at work, Windows- all of the missing conveniences start to pile up and even when you can restore some of it with apps and extensions it just doesn't work as well and together like in Plasma.

[@MichaelNROH]

Yeah, I honestly don't like using Windows productively anymore

[@grantschilb8019]

Gnome and KDE both give me that vibe. macOS is the closest to those in terms of functionality (mission control = overview, hot corners = screen edges). But it doesn't have the custom UI or native window tiliing. But then again, Linux still requires manual config editing just to get the soundcard to change between frequencies (44.1kHz/48kHz/etc). Not having hot corners in Windows is a bummer. There is a third party app, but it isn't nearly as versatile as what KDE or Gnome with extensions can offer. At least my windows laptop has a touchpad, so I can mimic most of the hot corner functionality with the touchpad.

[@michaelluckymaximus]

Would like to add not sleeping on Color Schemes. Seriously, one color can make the whole Breeze theme look like an entirely different one. Optimal and Breeze-Solarized are good examples of this.

[@xNaxdy]

7:36 also global menu works with DaVinci Resolve. Only under Wayland though. And if you're running it in some sandbox / distrobox-like thing, you need libdbusmenu in that container (perhaps another package as well, cannot remember atm).

[@MichaelNROH]

I'm suffering a different issue. Usually the menu bar just disappeared and wasn't pinned up to the Global Menu. That works now. However, whenever I have the Global View enabled, I need to restart Resolve 2 to 3 times or it'll just display a blackscreen. I think it just gets confused because the window is not designed that way

[@lizer5253]

Another great effect in plasma is the widget called "Panel Colorizer". It makes your dock customizable alot, you can even remove the background of the dock and leave only the icons, and give a different color. With some combination you can make the dock transparent and blurred (Panel Colorizer + Force blur). Another visual effect is the "Geometry Change" that gives a satisfying/smooth scale when rescaling a window using a tiling window manager (like kronhkite)

[@OraOraOra]

You know the video is going to be great, if Michael shows stuff in GNOME or KDE! Banger, as always!

[@Ironpants57]

Overview is amazing! It's like gnome's overview which is pretty great. The ability to get to each desktop, moving/organizing apps to x and y desktop, and a use of a runner at the same time is nice.

[@MaisistkeinGemuese]

Please make more! While it's very easy to find a Video that explains "the Gnome way to do it" I have trouble finding the "KDE way". I know KDE is very flexible to fit your needs, but there's a certain logic and vision the Devs intended. New KDR Users (like me) feel overwhelmed and stranded, as we first want to learn more what the defaults are, before going crazy with our individual setup.

[@Tn5421Me]

I do also appreciate that you can gnome-ify kde plasma.

[@smishyt]

If only I could kde-ify gnome the same way

[@Prophet6000]

Another great video.

[@upgrade1373]

Thanks for this! I am new to KDE

[@robertobs30]

love the t-shirt long live to our pinguin overlord mr. Tux

[@AAAMGGG]

Nice video, but Grid View is better than overview as long as you use 2x2 desktop grid.

[@ransan]

Looking forward to seeing you on Tech Over Tea.

[@nico1337]

Great video. I enabled Picture of the day for the lockscreen I like that. I don't get why the wallpaper isn't blurred in the overview I think that would make it stand out even better. Or take inspiration from COSMIC.

[@MichaelNROH]

You mean like blurred in the middle part as well? It's currently only blurred in the background behind your wallpaper. I find this the way to go, as dynamically blurring your image can be very distracting

[@mr_hardy5329]

KDE Plasma ❤

[@LucMarGui]

I still wonder how this channel hasn't reached 100k subscribers at this point. While I've been a Linux user for several years I was just a... user. now I'm digging into distros, desktop environments productivity options and Micheal have been a great source of information. Specially into customizing my DE to my liking. Also, his presentation skills are excellent.

[@BrotherMaverick]

Thanks!

[@MichaelNROH]

Thank you ❤️

[@studioDKislam]

How can i change the Desktop Change Keys like Gnome " Strg+Alt Left Right " Key

[@anon_y_mousse]

Neat, I might consider that wallpaper thing as I've had the same one for two years now and am kind of bored of it. When I first setup this computer I turned off all of the corner functions as they were highly annoying to me, but I do use the meta+w shortcut for displaying open windows every so often. I use it to find all the open Firefox windows so that I can merge them before closing the program for updates. I should probably find a plugin or something to manage open tabs, but I tend to only close it down when I do updates and those are relatively sparse. Something you might want to try that I do is that I have shortcuts setup for pushing windows to whatever desktop I want, and I tend to keep certain activities on certain desktops. So desktop 12 gets all the media player stuff for when I'm writing code and listening to music I can just start something up. I tend to leave a process viewer open on 8, because it's an easy key to find without looking. In fact, most things go on either the first or last of a four button group. And I have shortcuts setup to tile windows. I used the numpad to designate regions of the screen so it's a direct one to one relationship. 1,3,7,9 designate corners, 2,4,6,8 designate halves, 5 designates full screen, and 0 minimizes.

[@christophepomes]

Nice one.

[@Chr0n0s38]

There are cli tools that can control your desktop theme as well. A simple one is apply-plasma-lookandfeel. You can use these to script swapping between themes (such as light and dark) then use the task scheduler to automatically swap themes based on the time of day (similar to what macOS does). The only downside is it's not necessarily tied to the sun, you just set specific hours. It is completely customizable though (you could set different hours based on the season or something to approximate it). As a note though, the lookandfeel command sets the mouse cursor but it doesn't seem to apply immediately. Set the cursor theme first, then the global theme.

[@CRYPTiCEXiLE]

Fedora is amazing :)

[@tiger_of_kai]

Tiling WM users RISE UP!

[@SlimDeluxe]

Nice t-shirt, where can I order one? :)

[@silloo2072]

Gnome and kde really need to collaborate

[@timfd.w.4163]

Very Nice tips. I Don t know exactly why but Tumbleweed does a better job regarding to Plasma KDE than Fedora...

[@divyanshbhutra5071]

I need help with KDE Plasma 6. I've always wanted the quick settings and notifications on the top bar in KDE, and hence I added a top global menu bar. But I can't move the quick settings to it. Is there a way to do it?

[@rayrai982]

All these tools/scripts i am using already

[@someuser4166]

0:05 why can it do all this but cant let me remove the share btn from the right click menu nor add a terminal btn to it....

[@ivv3393]

Great video. I want to know something I am planning to buy a new gaming laptop and I read that wayland does not support nvidia optimus, is that right? I want to know before installing anything.

[@ChimeraX0401]

You can install cutting edge or bleeding edge distros like Fedora, Arch, OpenSuse Tumbleweed. Those distros especially Fedora have good drivers for Nvidia (NVK and version 555 driver)....

[@WrathOfVaz]

Does anyone know how I can get the mouse cursor (zoom) effect to work with the scroll wheel? I have tried setting the key but it doesn't recognise the scroll? Thanks

[@MichaelNROH]

It's Ctrl + Meta (Windows Key) and scrolling. You can't bind the scrolling manually yet

[@BiserAngelov1]

My biggest advantage is that i came to Plasma, not from Windows, but from Gnome. So i have a pretty good idea, about what a respecting desktop environment can and should do. When i started with Linux, KDE was version 3.2 / 3.5. But then suddenly KDE4 happened. It was so miserable experience for me, i did't want to have anything to do with KDE until around a year ago.

[@StaffyDoo]

KDE 💙

[@n.m4497]

I dont know if its bc you recorded in a too high quality but the Im watching it in 1440 and the video parts of your screen look a bit blurry.

[@AutoNuggets]

If KDE doesn't have a like for like replacement for Pop Tilling it is not for me no matter how good it is. Couldn't wait for the first main release of Cosmic DE Rust edition.

[@grantschilb8019]

For real, I love the vibe of KDE, but GNOME with Pop shell just works so well for me. Here's to hoping cosmic releases soon.

[@EvanEdwards]

It has a system designed to be a platform to build tiling upon. This is specifically to allow a wide variety of different forms and models of tiling interfaces.

[@codentags9990]

what is the wallpaper?

[@coolerguy71]

hi! if you're here, do you know how to export a video as AV1 on Davinci Resolve? it's blank when I click on the quick export button and doesn't show AV1 recording.

[@MichaelNROH]

It's only available in the Studio edition, and also only if you have an NVIDIA GPU. The AMD experience sucks with Resolve

[@coolerguy71]

@@MichaelNROH ah, that's unfortunate, but I did find a quick and dirty way to still get my project out, though. I just recorded a fulll screen of my edit project and then cropped out the video starting with kdenlive. Thanks for the pointer, though!

[@whiteopsur6755]

What's your wallpaper and theme

[@wikwayer]

If you have trouble stacking windows just use kwin

[@Kibodi]

Short Question: Which Audio Codec do you use for MKV Files in Resolve? AAC isn't supported on Linux.

[@te-weikaigai1836]

Some media players can support the AAC codec, I believe that the VLC is capable of doing that, not sure about other playres.

[@MichaelNROH]

PCM. It's technically a higher quality, but I eventually convert it to AAC anyway

[@alruinschoon9196]

@@MichaelNROH mppg work in vlc to run MKV Files

[@grantschilb8019]

@@te-weikaigai1836 Yeah, I've never had issues with AAC compatability.

[@LK-cy5xe]

what laptop would good for linux and play triple AAA games?

[@pyrusslayer8643]

A video how did u customise it Kde ?😅 your desktop

[@MichaelNROH]

I made a video like this in my custom Debian 12 install. Nothing changed really, except it's Plasma 6 on Fedora and the color theme

[@omarashraf27]

I don't know why but when I tried themes on kde fedora 40 beta as a live session I found that the maximize, minimize and close buttons are not scaled properly, their resolution was very low as if they were somewhat stretched jpeg files.

[@bufordmaddogtannen]

Same (except it was an installation) but closing and reopening windows fixed it.

[@omarashraf27]

@@bufordmaddogtannen/videos that's great news. I'm a long time windows user but planning to dual boot linux to slowly evade windows out of my life

[@davidwayne9982]

QUESTION-- do YOU know how to get the TILING to work on kde 6? I push the meta+t and it makes the correct grid on the screen- but nothing in it... I can't get it to work on active screens..

[@enemixius]

Drag the window and hold shift, then drop the window into your desired tile.

[@davidwayne9982]

@@enemixius THanks-- that figures-- they f..d up the AUTO- Tiling and now it's keybanging bullshit... I HATE that.. should be aUTO tiling like it was with BISMUTH.. not keybanging garbage like gnome. (which I ALSO hate)

[@enemixius]

@@davidwayne9982 There might be a kwin script for that? I don't know, don't really use tiling very often.

[@davidwayne9982]

@@enemixius So far Krohnkite is working well-- I have it running on ARTIX- and it has it's glitches-- but I noticed when I turn WAYLAND OFF-- everything works perfectly!!!

[@yeah493]

Polonium is an auto-tiling Kwin script that is nearing a V1.0 release (still missing some Bismuth features though). Bismuth still works on X11 (on Plasma 5 at least, I haven't tried Plasma 6 yet). There are a couple of other options for different tiling styles too but Polonium is the main option.

[@nemowei5553]

Why KDE is so unstable? Get error messages on daily basis. Will switch back to Gnome.

[@dragonballjiujitsu]

Loving KDE

[@svan71]

Great video. Is it possible to use the lock screen with KDE without requiring a password to unlock like in windows???

[@MichaelNROH]

I'm not sure actually. Not having a password kinda defeats the purpose of a lock screen

[@svan71]

@@MichaelNROH understood but without a screen saver option a lock screen with a black background is all I got. I have a plasma monitor and my options are limited macOs and Windows allow this, the highly customizable Linux does not.

[@MichaelNROH]

@@svan71 You can automatically turn off the screen after a set time in the energy settings if that's what you are after. Typical screensavers with animations are not being used anymore, though you could make a script that launches a video player. It's also in the energy settings

[@svan71]

@@MichaelNROH That will work thank you

[@grantschilb8019]

@@MichaelNROH This ^

[@AlaaSaidAhmad]

Make a new customize tutorial for kde plasma 6 for 2024

[@HarshaVardhan-sv4cl]

Which distribution are you using i think its not debian

[@MichaelNROH]

This is Fedora. Debian does not yet have Plasma 6

[@HarshaVardhan-sv4cl]

@@MichaelNROH fedora is in beta version right? Are you ok with it ? I mean it still have bugs and glitches

[@MichaelNROH]

@@HarshaVardhan-sv4cl Naah, Fedora is usually solid, even in Beta. Mostly because the Desktop Environments are already stable when it releases

[@HarshaVardhan-sv4cl]

@@MichaelNROH oh thanks for the clarification

[@akashashen]

So KDE discovered 2007? Neat.

[@takudzwamvere3663]

My experience with KDE plasma 6 on Endeavour OS was terrible, I can't download themes and so on from the settings, it always says something abt SSH handshake and lots of apps are not working well, Proton VPN and Xdman for example. I am thinking of trying arch Linux instead maybe the experience will be different there, are there any distros u would recommend for a smooth plasma 6 experience (arch based though coz I am a slave of the pac)

[@deadpianist7494]

using plasma 6 with arch and its really solid faster than gnome and XFCE, and i don't even know what SSH error is that coz i never had it on arch. and ofc you will have to download all the useful packages by yourself like Spectacle for screenshot, qview, mpv and so on but it's worth it

[@Skibbehify]

I would take a look at openSUSE Tumbleweed

[@takudzwamvere3663]

@@deadpianist7494 thanks man im gonna try it, i mostly avoided arch going to endeavour coz it felt like an easier to install arch linux but now i might have no otption, ive never liked manjaro, im not going back to Garuda so it feels a bit settled

[@DCM777.]

@@takudzwamvere3663 Just install Vanilla Arch and move away from the spinoffs!

[@deadpianist7494]

@@takudzwamvere3663 it took me 1 month to learn and install arch but now it feels like ur own home, i wish u good luck

[@UlisesNeikon]

Show kvantum next time

[@SuzukaTheBest]

idk overview mode looks kinda laggy for me...

[@MichaelNROH]

Plasma animations in general seem to behave odd when there are a couple of windows open. My guess is that it's not really buffered and called on demand

[@AndRei-yc3ti]

​@MichaelNROH for me its switching desktops. Its incredibly fast to switch but sometimes itll be noticeably laggy. Also, may I find out how you got scrolling to be so smooth on plasma 6? Mines is smooth but with some jerks. My screen is 60Hz though so idk if thats it

[@karlomoonblade]

themes can affect animation smoothness especially window decorations.

[@SuzukaTheBest]

actually i found this is wayland bug. On x11 session overview animation is smooth.

[@grantschilb8019]

@@SuzukaTheBest So that is why GNOME ran better on my M1 Mac Mini which exclusively uses wayland.

[@KevinRollman]

KDE is the best.

[@pixelgames2391]

bean

[@smishyt]

More reasons for KDE to replace GNOME for distros like Fedora. 👍

[@AlucardNoir]

Plasma? what are you, the new Nicco? Because if you are I think Nicco might not like it since he's still alive and both creating content and working in Plasma.

[@Maxtraxv3]

@0:13, then improve it? wtf?

[@eygs493]

smart guy