this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2023
58 points (98.3% liked)

KDE

5282 readers
162 users here now

KDE is an international technology team creating user-friendly free and open source software for desktop and portable computing. KDE’s software runs on GNU/Linux, BSD and other operating systems, including Windows.

Plasma 6 Bugs

If you encounter a bug, proceed to https://bugs.kde.org, check whether it has been reported.

If it hasn't, report it yourself.

PLEASE THINK CAREFULLY BEFORE POSTING HERE.

Developers do not look for reports on social media, so they will not see it and all it does is clutter up the feed.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Cool KDE Plasma Tip: Quickly access task manager apps with [Meta] + [number]

@kde@floss.social's task manager usually lives in the panel located by default at the bottom of your desktop (see attached image).

Quickly open or display apps shown in the task manager by holding down the [Meta] (aka "Windows") key and hitting one of the number keys at the top of your keyboard.

Reach the first app on the left with [Meta] + [1], the second from the left with [Meta] + [2], etc.

#Plasma #KDE #tip

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] mfraz74@mastodon.social 2 points 1 year ago (10 children)
[–] Bro666@social.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@mfraz74 @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

Open Plasma's System Settings app and go to

Workspace > Shortcuts

And look for the "Plasma" entry in the list.

Check the

"Active Task Manager Enty 'n'"

entries are assigned correctly to their corresponding keyboard combos.

[–] mfraz74@mastodon.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Bro666@social.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@mfraz74 @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

Right... Amarok has been kinda semi-abandoned for some time. Obviously these two, Task Manager and Amarok, had overlapping shortcuts and nobody realised.

[–] rriemann@chaos.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Bro666@social.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@rriemann @mfraz74 @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

@rriemann @mfraz74 @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

Elisa is currently the most popular music player from KDE:

https://apps.kde.org/elisa/

Apart from both being music players, Amarok and Elisa are not very similar. Elisa (supposedly) works on mobile too (but it is not all there yet), and is much simpler than Amarok.

The nearest thing to Amarok may be Strawberry...

https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/

... a fork of Clementine...

https://www.clementine-player.org/

... Clementine being a fork of Amarok.

[–] mfraz74@mastodon.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Bro666 @rriemann @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I tried Elisa, but I couldn't get on with it. Amarok as been ported to KDE 5 and it is fairly stable, so that's what I use.

[–] diazona@techhub.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@mfraz74 @Bro666 @rriemann @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Is Amarok still maintained? I thought it was dead. I used to love it but I had to give it up when I couldn't run it anymore.

[–] mfraz74@mastodon.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@diazona @Bro666 @rriemann @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social there are still updates of the source code. There is a PPA for Ubuntu, but that hasn't been updated for a while. It is fairly easy to compile.

[–] diazona@techhub.social 1 points 1 year ago

@mfraz74 @Bro666 @rriemann @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Gotcha. Well, I use Gentoo so I would be compiling it anyway. Sounds like I should take a look at it again 🙂

[–] flyos@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago

There are Clementine and Strawberry that are forks of the old Amarok, but not from KDE. The current music player from KDE is Elisa.

load more comments (8 replies)