Linux Fu: Easy Widgets
Here’s a scenario. You have a microcontroller that reads a number of items — temperatures, pressures, whatever — and you want to have a display for your Linux desktop that …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: Easy Widgets
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Here’s a scenario. You have a microcontroller that reads a number of items — temperatures, pressures, whatever — and you want to have a display for your Linux desktop that …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: Easy Widgets
“Microsoft has been struggling to reach a state of convergence between tablet and desktop ever since Windows 8 and the original Surface,” argues Neowin, adding “If we’re using Windows 11 as a barometer of their progress, they’ll likely never get there…. Continue reading KDE’s New Swipe Gesture Makes Windows 11 Look Bad
jrepin writes: Plasma is a popular desktop environment, which will also be powering the desktop mode on the Steam Deck hand-held gaming console. Today, KDE Community announced release of KDE Plasma 5.24, a Long Term Support (LTS) release that will rece… Continue reading KDE Plasma 5.24 Released
“Qt, the framework that powers the KDE desktop, is announcing support for ads in client-side applications,” reports Neowin:
This means that application developers will now be able to serve ads in traditional desktop applications…. Windows users have… Continue reading KDE-Powering Qt’s New Framework Lets Developers Bring Ads Into Their Apps
“Qt, the framework that powers the KDE desktop, is announcing support for ads in client-side applications,” reports Neowin:
This means that application developers will now be able to serve ads in traditional desktop applications…. Windows users have… Continue reading KDE-Powering Qt’s New Framework Lets Developers Bring Ads Into Their Apps
It seems that the engineers of NASA’s Lucy spacecraft have some ‘splaining to do. The $981M asteroid-seeking mission launched without a hitch, but when the two solar panels unfolded, one …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: October 24, 2021
KDE Plasma 5.22 is now available, bringing “hugely improved” Wayland support, better performance for gaming, adaptive panel transparency for the panel and widgets, and more. Phoronix reports: There is now support for variable rate refresh (VRR) / Adapt… Continue reading KDE Plasma 5.22 Released
KDE’s Plasma 5.20 is now available, bringing a bunch of refinements as well as some larger features. Some of the KDE Plasma 5.20 highlights include (via Phoronix):
– Numerous fixes to the KWin window manager / compositor including a number of Wayland … Continue reading KDE Plasma 5.20 Released
jrepin writes: The KDE community has released Plasma 5.19, the popular free and open-source desktop environment. “In this release, we have prioritized making Plasma more consistent, correcting and unifying designs of widgets and desktop elements; worke… Continue reading KDE Plasma 5.19 Released
It seems to me there are two camps when it comes to the Raspberry Pi. Some people use them as little PCs or even laptops with a keyboard and screen connected. But many of us use them as cheap Linux servers. I’m in the latter camp. I have probably had …read more