Some cool Plasma tips and tricks

More Plasma, more goodness. This is my latest OCS-Mag article. As simple as it sounds, a bunch of nice tips and tricks for enterpreneuring users and lovers of the latest incarnation of the KDE framework. Take a look.

http://www.ocsmag.com/2015/03/21/some-cool-plasma-tips-and-tricks/


Cheers,
Mrk

 

Nice, just wish sudo apt-get dist-upgrade wouldn't render my Kubuntu 15.04 system unbootable by switching to systemd...

 

Systemd is a big great menace.
Mrk

 

Sure can be. Do you know of a fix for VirtualBox guests?

 

Can you elaborate please? Running Plasma in a VM on top of which distro?
Mrk

 

On top of Windows 7 64-bit. I believe I posted about that in one of my threads, and it was in my sig.

 

No, I meant the Linux side which distro and Plasma ...
Mrk

 

Oh, Kubuntu 15.04 beta 1 guest. Not sure what version of plasma, but it's 5.

 

Now having the same experience with sudo apt-get upgrade... To hell with systemd, switching back to upstart.

Except that doesn't work either, and I'll have to manually repair it...

 

Actually, to hell with it. Completely broken, I'm trying Fedora 22 Alpha KDE instead.

 

That's not necessarily related to Plasma. Kernel panic is a different sort of foobar.
Mrk

 

Yeah, it was the damn systemd kernel upgrade.

 

What do you know, Plasma 5 on Fedora 22 also doesn't support 3D acceleration, even after manually installing Guest Additions from VirtualBox.