kde-plasma – Tarik Billa

Why does pip3 want to create a kdewallet after installing/updating packages on Ubuntu 20.04?

August 16, 2023 by Tarik

This solved it for me: python3 -m keyring –disable Running it adds: [backend] default-keyring=keyring.backends.null.Keyring to the file ~/.config/python_keyring/keyringrc.cfg. Presumably PYTHON_KEYRING_BACKEND=keyring.backends.null.Keyring mentioned at https://stackoverflow.com/a/68504137/895245 offers an environment variable way to achieve the same result. Without this, it would show the annoying KDE keyring popup every time I try to install a package: Google, index this: The … Read more

What is the difference between OpenGL and XRender in KDE Desktop Effects? [closed]

June 8, 2023 by Tarik

OpenGL and XRender are both drawing APIs that allow for applications of certain geometrical transformations while doing so. OpenGL is targeted at drawing operations to be executed by a dedicated graphics processing unit (GPU) and provides many features that make generating a 3D-looking image very easy (depth buffer, depth testing, 4×4 homogenous transformation matrices). But … Read more

How to disable Kwallet in kde plasma 5? [closed]

May 16, 2023 by Tarik

To disable the KDE wallet: Go to the KDE menu. Type “wallet”, this will show KWalletManager. Go to Settings. Uncheck Enable the KDE wallet subsystem.

Signing into slack-desktop not working on 4.23.0 64-bit (Ubuntu) [closed]

March 24, 2023 by Tarik

The answer provided by Boon is correct. I wanted to leave comment under that answer but apparently I need 50 points to comment so I can only add new answer… After digging into the matter it sounds like the kde-open5 from kde-cli-tools is doing some funky lower-casing on first element of URL (slack://A/B/C becomes slack://a/B/C). … Read more