Cool tips and tricks to show on social media
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Description

We have YouTube and PeerTube playlists for these videos.

Plasma

  • Ctrl + F9 + typing to show and filter open windows (YT_PLAYLIST_DUPLICATE | PT)
  • Control your YouTube/Spotify/etc. from the media widget + middle click on volume widget to mute sound and media widget for pause&play (@aronkvh)
  • Mousewheel scrolling on the sound to control volume, no clicking (YT | PT)
  • Mousewheel scrolling on battery to control brightness, no clicking
  • Mousewheel on the clock switches timezones if preconfigured
  • Resize/Move your window by pressing a key — a littler after Plasma 5.20 is released (YT | PT)
  • Alt/Meta + Middle Button — cycle through windows stacked one above the other
  • Select and drag text from app to desktop to make a sticky note (YT | PT_MISSING)
  • Long click on widget to bring up handles and toolbar (YT | PT)

Krunner

  • =plot with KRunner & GNUPlot (Twitter: 82 retweets and 300 likes and Mastodon: 31 boosts and 30 likes) (YT | PT_MISSING)
  • Simple math operations
  • Unit / Currency conversions
  • Switching between browser tabs
  • Open applications ?
  • Web shortcuts (gg: Google; gt: GitLab)
  • Run commands with environment variables, e.g. LANG=C systemsettings5 to open applications in English for screenshots (implemented, but should wait until it lands on distros, added in 5.20)
  • KRunner on center of screen like rofi ? (thanks to Alexander Lohnau)

Okular

  • Print a page
  • Select an image ?
  • Annotation / Review tool (YT | PT)
  • Presentation mode (useful with PDF presentations)

KDE Connect

  • See incoming calls (and pause music/videos automatically when receiving/making one)
  • Suspend computer with custom commands (YT | PT)
  • Send files to a specified folder
  • Ported to Windows (only post after the real release)
  • Read & Answer SMS from the desktop

Kate

  • Vi mode (is a KPart, so also in Kile, KWrite and KDevelop) It's already done and edited with kdenlive. Please let me know if I should add or modify something. (@sebelk) https://youtu.be/yDxSlSfIZy4
  • Live preview of documents (e.g. markdown) (MISSING)
  • Any app with KTextPart: Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down moves entire line/block selection upwards/downwards

Share/Purpose

Dolphin

  • Integrated terminal that follows your path (F4) and open terminal in folder (Shift+F4)
  • Split view (F3)
  • Create new tabs with familiar keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+T)
  • Git / SVN integration (needs plugin, TODO figure out for different distros)
  • Nextcloud / Google Drive integration (similar to above)
  • Previews for a ton of file types (e.g. Blender) (would be nice to know the amount of file types supported) (for extras: ffmpegthumbs, ffmpegthumbnailers, kdegraphics-thumbnailers)
  • Multiple file rename (with numbers using # symbol)
  • Open archives as folders
  • FileStash/kio-stash: virtual folder/pane for bulk file management
  • Filter bar (Ctrl+I) (YT | PT_MISSING)
  • Privilege escalation (file operations requesting password) (D21795)
  • Suggest New Name button when two files have the same name
  • Duplicate here (check which version of Dolphin started supporting this)
  • Tags (File Properties → Details → Tags)
  • Easily share folders with SAMBA
  • Google Drive support using kio-gdrive
  • Show in groups (allows to simulate how the Windows Download folder looks like by separating content according to date, should probably check the easiest way to trigger, ask @ngraham ) ← What does this mean? (I have no idea too)
  • Cool kio-slaves (timeline, man) and saving them to Places (see Miscellaneous: kio-slaves from KRunner)

KWin

  • Meta + Arrows to snap windows (YT | PT_WAITING)
  • Wobbly windows + 3D Cube (YT | PT)
  • Animation for opening windows (Desktop effects → Window Open/Close Animation → Fade, Glide, Scale effects, try setting Scale to 1200 milliseconds and 0 for scale values)
  • Switch animation for Alt+Tab
  • Animation on mouse click
  • Animation to show mouse pointer position
  • Draw/scribble on your desktop using Meta+Shift ?
  • Control where windows should be with window rules (wait for window rules kcm redesign to land on distros)
  • Default touchpad gestures with libinput on Wayland (still at really, really early development, wait for full implementation)

Kdenlive

  • Add audio wave form filter over video (see Audio Analysis)
  • Simple motion tracking example
  • Record audio directly from Kdenlive

Krita

  • Tool for image referencing, should work well with image drag'n'drop
  • Switch all keyboard shortcuts in-bulk to resemble Photoshop or Paint Tool Sai

Konsole

  • Split and Sync input to terminal panes (YT | PT)
  • Preview files holding Alt key
  • Open listed files and folders just by clicking on them (YT | PT)
  • Automatic activation of custom ssh profile (similar to putty)

Kontact

  • Nexcloud calendar and contacts integration
  • Archiving emails in zip/tar
  • Gauge showing the possibility of an e-mail being spam with spamassassin

Accessibility

  • Meta+Minus or Meta+Plus to zoom in and out on the screen (this is so useful!)
  • Track Mouse desktop effect for visually impaired

Miscellaneous

  • Run application using dedicated GPU (see userbase.kde.org)
  • Respond to Telegram message directly via notifications
  • Browse icon in cuttlefish to find the perfect icon
  • Kioslaves (man:/, zip:/, etc.), also available from KRunner (See Dolphin's cool kio-slaves)
  • Spectacle: new annotation support
  • Drag a screenshot directly from notifications/Spectacle to the application you want (doesn't work with containers like flatpak iirc)
  • Drag a picture from the web browser to the desktop to set the background (YT | PT)
  • Yakuake show-off
  • Ctrl+Shift+T to open a new Konsole/Yakuake tab
  • KColorChooser and the color chooser widget
  • Scan WiFi QR code from plasma-nm with phone
  • Add sounds to your notifications and login (bugged, presumably 422948)
  • Change which widgets are shown in the tray

Notes

  • YT_PLAYLIST_DUPLICATE — duplicated in YouTube playlist
  • PT_MISSING — missing on PeerTube
  • PT_WAITINGPeerTube inaccessible for now
  • MISSING — done but absent on every platform
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One little gem I found out lately is the option to bind a shortcut to "open klipper at mouse position" option which is really useful in my opinion.

paulb added a comment.Aug 4 2020, 10:56 AM

One little gem I found out lately is the option to bind a shortcut to "open klipper at mouse position" option which is really useful in my opinion

Interesting... So what does it do? I tried it but nothing happened.

One little gem I found out lately is the option to bind a shortcut to "open klipper at mouse position" option which is really useful in my opinion

Interesting... So what does it do? I tried it but nothing happened.

I use this a lot. It shows a popup with your clipboard history, with the type and number of entries depending on how you have "Clipboard Contents" setup.

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