This week in KDE: looking forward towards Plasma 6.1 (pointieststick.com)
from justin@lemmy.kde.social to linux@lemmy.ml on 30 Mar 2024 06:25
https://lemmy.kde.social/post/1042817

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justin@lemmy.kde.social on 30 Mar 2024 06:26 next collapse

Apparently in Lemmy you can’t post a URL and an image 🤷.

otter@lemmy.ca on 30 Mar 2024 06:30 next collapse

Yea it’s one or the other, so that it federates nicely

What I do is link the URL in the main post (to get a thumbnail, and because that’s what people expect), and the image in the post body. You can insert it like this

![alt text](image URL)

justin@lemmy.kde.social on 06 Apr 2024 05:18 collapse

Ah I see it’s just Lemmy failing to get the thumbnail that I was trying to fix. I guess it’s just something in Lemmy’s code.

otter@lemmy.ca on 06 Apr 2024 05:42 collapse

Oh that is odd, and it might be related to your instance because the thumbnail is showing up on lemmy.ca

Here is the post on each instance:

lemmy.kde.social/post/1042817

lemmy.ca/post/18414522

justin@lemmy.kde.social on 07 Apr 2024 02:26 collapse

Yeah, looks to be an instance specific bug I guess. Hopefully it can get addressed soon. I think the thumbnail helps with drawing people’s attention to posts.

Thade780@lemmy.world on 30 Mar 2024 07:27 collapse

You can use the text field to drop an image link.

unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de on 30 Mar 2024 08:25 next collapse

I don’t mean to sound like an a-hole, but when will the KDEConnect’s ever-appearing “accept” pop-up when remote-mousing work properly?

EDIT (MONTHS LATER): IT WORKS PERFECTLY NOW ❤️

ISOmorph@feddit.de on 30 Mar 2024 11:45 collapse

There’s still a bunch of little bugs in KDE6, they’ll get ironed out over time. For the KDE connect bug I use a ydotool command to emulate an enter key press to accept the remote command access from my bed.

deliriousn0mad@feddit.it on 31 Mar 2024 15:12 collapse

That’s a great workaround, could you share the command?

ISOmorph@feddit.de on 31 Mar 2024 22:41 collapse

The command itself isn’t complex:

YDOTOOL_SOCKET=“$HOME/.ydotool_socket” ydotool key 28:1 28:0

The hard part is getting ydotool to run on boot for your user (no sudo). I had to create a bash script to run on login with the following line:

ydotoold --socket-path=“$HOME/.ydotool_socket” --socket-own=“$(id -u):$(id -g)”

It’s a bit hacky but it works.

deliriousn0mad@feddit.it on 01 Apr 2024 15:35 collapse

Thank you, I didn’t know about ydotool, I’ll get it working on openSuse

Andy@programming.dev on 30 Mar 2024 14:16 next collapse

The Power and Battery widget now responds to middle-clicks and scrolls: middle-click will block or re-enable automatic sleep and screen locking, and scrolling will change the active power profile

Scrolling on the battery applet is how I adjust my brightness. Is that no longer a thing?

flyos@jlai.lu on 30 Mar 2024 18:10 collapse

There’s now a separated luminosity applet that will change brightness if you scroll on it (normally, didn’t check, I’m on my phone).

OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml on 31 Mar 2024 00:23 collapse

In addition to everything listed here, there’s something big that I can’t mention yet since it’s not 100% merged yet, but only 95%! Hopefully next week. 🙂 So stay tuned for that!

Nate’s a hype man