i am a long term :kde: :plasma: user & lover, so this is certainly not a dis of the marvellous Devs & co. however, over the years, notwithstanding the OTT way that many other Plasma devotees big-up the native #krunner tool, not once have i found a practical use-case for it.

for instance, with even basic enquiries like

• how many roads must a man walk down?
• what's six by nine?

the silly thing remains clueless! 🙄🤦‍♀️

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#kde #plasma #hhgttg #42

I just discovered that the #macOS #TextEdit app has an interesting feature: it can do math!

For example, if you type the expression “640*480=” then it will autocomplete “307,200”.

I wonder if any other #editor s have this feature?

#KDE 's #Kate does not have this feature, but #KDEPlasma does have something similar: you can type “640*480” into #KRunner (Alt+F2) and press Shift+Enter to copy the answer into the clipboard. Then you can paste it into your document.

Neat!

Apps like Raycast, KRunner, Alfred, and Spotlight are commonly called Application Launchers. They’re so much more than that though. If you really about it — They’re really GUI Command Lines. GCL for short.

#raycast #AlfredApp #KRunner #spotlight #GCL

Aunque el podcast haya tenido un mes de descanso, nuestra comunidad no ha parado, como es de costumbre, así que @DavidMarzalC y @raivenra nos traen en este #KDEexpress un capazo de noticias sobre nuestra familia de aplicaciones preferida y una convocatoria para el 27 en Madrid en el #CañasyPodcasts (@ultimosfeed)

Descripción completa y enlaces como siempre en:
https://kdeexpress.gitlab.io/posts/kdeexpress/53-kde-express/

Temas tratados entre otros:
#Discover #Krunner #KDEframeworks #HDR #Orca #KDEa11y #KaOS #Komodo #KDElinux

Do any #Linux/#KDE users have an idea why an app, on a #KDEPlasma desktop, might start fine on the terminal, and application launcher, but not on #KRunner?

This has been happening for a long time now for me with #virt-manager - tho that wasn't the case in the past for just as long. That being said, IIRC it's happened with the application launcher too, tho that works for me atm, but KRunner almost always fails to launch it - only the app icon appears to be loading on the dock/panel, then it disappears.

When it does happen, journalctl would report this error:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'libvirt'

@atareao . Buen aporte 👏 . Yo uso #Krunner . Evidente, soy usuario de #KDE Plasma . Viene por defecto con el escritorio y a mi me llega con lo que hace. Gracias por compartir

@jan
#KRunner
Alt + space ?
https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/Krunner

I posted about this a while back but I guess the bug still exists, and it’s so stupid how easily reproducible it is.

There’s a bug on #KDE Plasma, or perhaps #Krunner specifically, whereby writing a bunch of (ridiculously) simple math equations (i.e. 1+10+15+4, and so on) would keep increasing RAM usage RAPIDLY to the point that your entire desktop would freeze - needing a complete power cycle to your computer.

I literally have 32GB of RAM - that ain’t enough on a #KDEPlasma desktop apparently. It’s so fucking stupid - I’ve a long running task going on in the background too (and no - that wasn’t a factor, my RAM usage was sitting at ~30% before shooting to 98% while I was doing the calculations).

#Krunner froze my entire #KDE Plasma desktop just from writing up a 'long', simple math equation while I was calculating some of my expenses lol. My desktop is completely unresponsive now and I couldn't do anything about it, not even Caps Lock on my keyboard respond. All I can see is my applet that monitors RAM usage last reported to be at 97%.

I'm sure about half of it is probably #Firefox, but I'm also certain the rest was caused by Krunner since I wasn't really doing anything else - as much as I love KDE Plasma, time and time again I'm getting closer and closer to upgrading to 64GB of RAM, which sounds hellllla ridiculous for a regular ol' desktop and not a homelab server.

Forreal tho, as much as I despise #macOS, how is it that my #MacBook Air M1 can fly with pretty much the same workflow with just 8GB of RAM and never encounter any types of freezes, at most it just feels sluggish (which is just a regular macOS thing), meanwhile this much more powerful machine with 32GB of RAM just freaking... dies from doing simple math calculations on Spotlight?

I'd be so happy whenever I get to use #Krunner reliably again on #KDE Plasma 6 like it was in Plasma 5.27 bro. Whenever I hop on the desktop on my #SteamDeck, I'm reminded by how gooood we ate previously on #X11 (AFAIC). Now on my Plasma 6 #Wayland desktop, I've to use the application launcher like a pleb - in some extremely rare cases I even have to launch apps from the terminal lmao.

RE: https://floss.social/users/kde/statuses/114364089340464610

#KDE’s #Krunner has become so impossible to launch (reliably) since #KDEPlasma 6 presumably due to #Wayland, that I’ve regressed to launching apps from the terminal instead like a friggin pleb 🙂

#macOS's inability to reliably launch the emoji picker

🤝🏼

#KDE's inability to reliably launch #Krunner (on #Wayland)

Y bueno, la extensión #krunner-keepassxc para el krunner de #kde es la ostia. Llegar a las password del keepass via krunner es una gozada. Otra cosa mas que no conocia :)

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https://store.kde.org/p/1414906

I'm kinda puzzled with why when I try to run #virt-manager (Virtual Machine Manager), from the application launcher or something like #KDE's #Krunner, it'll fail with this error:

Feb 11 19:13:11 calcifer virt-manager[244999]: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'libvirt'
Feb 11 19:13:11 calcifer systemd[1046]: app-virt\x2dmanager@772f8c75e7a84dcf8e27d58b0c09769a.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Feb 11 19:13:11 calcifer systemd[1046]: app-virt\x2dmanager@772f8c75e7a84dcf8e27d58b0c09769a.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

#KDEexpress episodio 37 de nuevo gracias a @raivenra y @DavidMarzalC

Toda la info en :
https://kdeexpress.gitlab.io/37

Ya sabéis que en KDE pedimos poco, así que en esta ocasión os pedimos que compartáis con vuestros allegados ya sea el podcast o la Asociación. Os necesitamos para seguir creciendo la comunidad.

Temas tratados:
#OptiImage, #digiKam, #Krunner, #HDR, #Dolphin, #Karp, #OpenMadriva, #Kdonacions #Donaciones

#KDE's #KRunner keeps failing to launch on #KDEPlasma 6, #Wayland with this error:

krunner[293367]: qt.qpa.wayland: eglSwapBuffers failed with 0x300d, surface: 0x5897e62cc2c0

I can't fucking copy, paste anything reliably in the many months since upgrading to #KDE Plasma 6... sigh. Never take basic features for granted I guess 😴

Even something I've used A LOT since fully migrating to #Linux on #KDEPlasma, which is #KRunner has gotten terrible since the upgrade. More often than not, that thing simply does not launch until multiple tries - a couple of times it even hard crashed and needed to be killed and restarted using System Monitor.

Same issue with #Spectacle, the screenshot utility on KDE.

#DrogieFedi pytanie w kwestii #Linux.owej

#TIL, ze moje #KDE ma cos takiego jak #KRunner - da sie tam jakos zmienic wyszukiwarke, zeby zamiast #DuckDuckGO korzystac z #Kagi?

#tech #help

I notice, since #KDEPlasma 6, #Krunner's no longer as reliable to launch. Previously on #KDE Plasma 5.27 (on #X11 instead of #Wayland, if that matters, who knows), it always launched super quickly and never failed.

Heck, even faster than #Spotlight on #macOS (which is consistently dog slow). On Plasma 6 though, on multiple systems, I've noticed that it has the tendency to fail to launch with a rather useless error, Remote peer disconnected.

Pretty annoying.

That popup that appears to show your audio level when you change the volume through the keyboard shortcut that's supposed to be at the center on #KDEPlasma, it's been appearing in the top left for me.

It's a bug.. right? How do I get it back to the centre cos I'm pretty sure it happened after the #KDE Plasma 6.2.0 update (KF 6.7.0) and that it's persisted through a reboot. Nbd all in all, but pretty funny. I'd be more annoyed if it was #Krunner instead.