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KDE Plasma is a cross-platform desktop environment and software compilation, commonly used on Linux.

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KDE Plasma is an open-source, cross-platform desktop environment and software compilation based on the toolkit. It is one of the two most popular desktop environments on Linux, the other being .

KDE originally stood for K Desktop Environment, but it has since been rebranded as just KDE.

For questions specific to the KDE 4 version, you can use the tag.

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How do I check whether I am using KDE or Gnome?

or maybe something else? I am using Redhat OS.
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Could not find a configuration file for package "ECM" that is compatible with requested version 1.5.0

I tried to download "ECMConfig.cmake" from repository, but terminal gives me an error: "question's title + The following configuration files were considered but not accepted: ECMConfig.cmake : version is unknowed. I tried to search on Google, but…
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KDE taskbar missing

I'm not sure what I pressed or clicked but I can no longer see the taskbar in KDE. I'm not finding any desktop switching keys though ALT+Tab still switches to already opened windows. Right-clicking on the blank empty black background does nothing.…
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How to disable top left hotspot corner in KDE?

I'm using KDE 4.7 (from the testing repo) on Arch Linux 3.0-ARCH. It's very annoying that when I move my mouse to the top left, thumbnails of my windows appear. This is especially annoying with Firefox, I made it borderless so I can click on the…
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Disable kwallet popups from chrome

I've edited ~/.kde/share/config/kwalletrc and added [Auto Deny] kdewallet=Chromium In the KDE Wallet Configuration in system settings I've unchecked "Enable the KDE wallet subsystem". This also seems to add: [Auto Deny] kdewallet[$d] However I'm…
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How can I disable 'Alt' + mouse default behavior in KDE?

By default, when one holds down Alt and drags with the mouse, it will move a window in KDE/kwin. Is there a way to disable this for a particular application? I know there's a lot of application overrides (click top left window icon > Advanced >…
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Error running Gitkraken even though dependencies installed

I installed Gitkraken as I have a few projects I want to work on with my KDE Neon box. now I was pretty sure I installed everything but I ran gitkraken in a terminal and I got this Node started time: 1500754704472 libgnome-keyring.so.0: cannot open…
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KDE - move app window between monitors via keyboard

I'm looking for a utility that moves app windows between multiple monitors in KDE.
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No taskbar and can't right click desktop

No idea how this happened. plasmashell was crashing after consuming 6gb memory and I'd tried removing ~/.cache. Shortly after all plasmashell would do is start my desktop background with a wallpaper, but wouldn't give me any taskbar and I couldn't…
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How to type unicode characters in KDE?

This answer has tips on how to do it on Gnome or Vim, but these don't work on KDE. This bug shows that KDE don't support the ISO notation with Ctrl+Shift plus the character's hex code. Is there any other way I can do this with a keyboard (that is,…
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How do I restart the plasma shell in KDE5?

I want to restart my plasma desktop/shell without rebooting my machine and was looking for a way to do so. Is there some konsole command or something that would do just that?
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What is Gnome / KDE etc?

I have been on Windows my entire life. Without getting too technical, what are these things? When I search on the net, I get some technical results. I simple do not understand what these things are! I work on Windows and completely miss the point…
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How to set a default desktop environment at system start?

I'm a Linux and KDE user, and recently I started to use also Enlightenment as a substitute Desktop environment when I need a lighter resource consumption. I use KDM as a display manager, and I need to find a way to correctly set the default desktop…
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KDE: disable super_L (windows key) key shortcut as menu launcher

Where can I disable super_L key (windows key) opening KDE menu? Or where can I change this shortcut?
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How to find the default file manager?

as a Linux user, I see that some applications can request a path to be opened and this causes a file manager to be launched. I'd like to do this programmatically, but how can I know which is the default file manager? Is there a way to find this…
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