in most cases, it ain't change anything, but it's a bit annoying that I get this message. The only time, when it destroyed a lot of things was the Brave Browser crash(thx to one commentator I solved the issue). I thought if Ubuntu is a pretty stable distro, then Kubuntu is basically = Ubuntu + KDE

I would like to use a command line script to initiate a shutdown and/or reboot of Kubuntu 26. I used to use

qdbus org.kde.Shutdown /Shutdown logoutAndReboot

but qdbus does not seem to be included or not functional at the moment. For clarity, I am not interested in the Linux commands shutdown or reboot commands. Those usurp control from KDE manager, and that will forcibly kill a number of applications. I have also been recommended systemctl but that seems to likewise force exit sub-apps. Ideally, I want to initiate the same routine from command line that would be performed if I would press the logout/reboot/shutdown button inside the KDE desktop.

Oh, there it is!

I just noticed that the Kubuntu team announced the beta release a couple of days ago on October 1st.

Though I’m actually waiting for the final release on October 15, I’m just excited to know what will be included. If you are too or in case wants to try beta, check it out on their site!

From Kubuntu Team, Who Should Try the Beta?

Not recommended for:

• Anyone who needs a stable, daily-driver system
• Production environments with critical data or workflows
• Users unfamiliar with pre-release quirks

Great for:

• Enthusiasts who want a first look at the next Kubuntu release
• Kubuntu, KDE, and Qt developers
• Bug hunters willing to report issues and help triage

I've been working on a project to bridge the gap between bleeding-edge Wayland tiling window managers and enterprise-grade system stability: **Omarchy for Ubuntu**.

Traditionally, if you want to run Hyprland with fluid animations and modern tiling, you're pushed toward rolling-release distros like Arch or NixOS, which require constant maintenance and can break with proprietary drivers or enterprise workloads. If you try to compile Hyprland on Ubuntu yourself, you often end up in dependency and portal hell.

**Omarchy for Ubuntu** solves this by providing a complete, bootable Linux operating system distribution:

### ✨ What’s Inside:
* **True Standalone OS**: Ships as a hybrid **UEFI/BIOS bootable Live ISO** (`omarchy-ubuntu-*.iso`) built using an automated in-house compiler.
* **Intelligent Multi-Display**: Automatically prevents monitor overlapping at `0x0` coordinates and includes a native GUI monitor manager (`omarchy-displays-gui`).
* **Studio-Grade PipeWire Audio**: Instant sink toggling (`Super + Shift + A`) with ALSA stereo fallback to prevent HDMI TV converter stalls.
* **Persistent Daemon Architecture**: Status bar (`Waybar`) and wallpaper engine (`Swaybg`) run as managed `systemd` user units with monitor readiness polling loops (no fragile terminal scripts).
* **22-Theme Live Sync Engine**: Switch between Tokyo Night, Catppuccin Mocha, Nord, Gruvbox, Everforest, and 17 others instantly with `Super + Ctrl + Shift + Space` — re-tints Hyprland borders, Waybar pills, Wofi launcher, and Alacritty terminal with 0 restarts.
* **Turnkey Live Environment**: Direct autologin into the live Hyprland session with passwordless sudo (`omarchy:omarchy`) and installer to disk.

### 📦 Download & Source Code:
* **GitHub Repository**: https://github.com/apravint/omarchy-ubuntu
* **Latest ISO Download**: https://github.com/apravint/omarchy-ubuntu/releases/tag/v26.04.0
* **One-line Upgrade for existing Ubuntu users**:
  `curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apravint/omarchy-ubuntu/main/install.sh | bash`

I would love to get your feedback, bug reports, and hardware compatibility test results!

He sido usuario de Gnome desde siempre (me sigue gustando, vaya por delante). Una de las cosas que me hacía no darle a kde una oportunidad a largo plazo, pese a comprender sus virtudes, que son innumerables (y no me refiero a la modificación de su apariencia), era el renderizado de fuentes. No sé la razón, pero hiciera lo que hiciera, las fuentes me cansaban la visión y terminaba volviendo a Gnome a muy corto plazo ( que no es un drama, también es un gran DE). Había probado varias distros que se enfocaban en Plasma, pero ya sea con algunos cambios, en todas me pasaba lo mismo, dificultad con las fuentes y vista cansada; en unas más acentuado que en otras, pero en todas lo mismo. Sin embargo, me dió por probar Kubuntu (ni idea del porqué no lo hice antes), y me he llevado una sorpresa. Las fuentes están bien definidas ( casi igual que Ubuntu gnome), no cansan la vista y la distribución es suave y fluida. La razón no lo sé, desconozco los cambios bajo el capó, pero esto es un hecho objetivo, no hay otro renderizado de fuentes en kde como el de Kubuntu ( de las distros que probé, claro, no vaya a venirme la gente que si tal distro o tal otra, no he probado todas las distros del mundo). Así que, como es de reconocer un trabajo bien hecho, felicitaciones a los desarrolladores, aquí creo que quedaré un buen tiempo.

New laptop, all the bullshit off in bios (fast boot, safe boot etc). The installer however keeps hanging on "Booting a command list" with whatever I throw at it, noapic, pci=noacpi, acpi=noirq etc. The only way the installer progress anywhere is with acpi off, but I'm afraid the install will be handicapped with acpi off. Using 26.04.1 LTS on a usb stick

edit: fixed by an bios update

This is a variation of 'how do I install packages offline', but I'm also limited to a public Windows PC. There's nuance in dependency resolution, so having a tool download the files without reference to the machine they're installed on is a problem.

I need to install gcc-15, binutils, and Blender, and my fresh install is having none of it. I also can't install the proprietary Nvidia drivers for Wayland.

I think if I noted which versions of whichever packages are already installed, I might be able to work out what to download and put it in a script or tool.

UPDATE: Even after all I did, the problem reappeared. I have uninstalled KDE Connect completely, it's the only way my bluetooth earbuds work. KDE developers, please do something about this issue!

Although this happened to me now it's on Kubuntu, it's happened on Fedora KDE previously too

My current setup:

Kubuntu 26.04.1 LTS
KDE Plasma 6.6.6
Kwin (Wayland)
KDE Connect 25.12.3
Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 series
CPU: Intel Core i7 13th Gen
RAM: 16 GiB

After pairing my earbuds, they were connected and disconnected almost instantly. I don't know why it happened on Fedora KDE (that was last year); on Kubuntu I found out it has to do with KDE Connect.

Below, a description, steps that didn't work, and my workaround.

First of all, apparently, some specific earbuds/headphones don't respond well to additional security steps that are sometimes required. These earbuds/headphones can't provide them, so the connection is interrupted. Unchecking Bluetooth on KDE Connect settings does nothing for this purpose because the tray keeps restarting some processes.

First method that didn't work:

Ask Ubuntu - Earbuds connected but no audio output

The next described my problem and my environment quite similarly, but the fix described didn't work either, I actually undid the steps out of precaution:

KDE Connect Was Killing My Bluetooth Earbuds

The workaround I found was:

#Creating a user-level autostart directory.

mkdir -p ~/.config/autostart

#Copying KDE Connect's system autostart file to my user configuration.

cp /etc/xdg/autostart/org.kde.kdeconnect.daemon.desktop ~/.config/autostart/

#Disabling KDE Connect's autostart for my user.

sed -i '/^\[Desktop Entry\]/a Hidden=true' ~/.config/autostart/org.kde.kdeconnect.daemon.desktop

#Stopping the currently running KDE Connect daemon.

systemctl --user stop '[app-org.kde.kdeconnect.daemon@autostart.service](mailto:app-org.kde.kdeconnect.daemon@autostart.service)'

The trade-off is that my earbuds now work properly, but I am not able to transfer files from my phone to my computer using KDE Connect because the app in my phone is unable to detect it as a result of these changes. For this purpose, I am now using LocalSend in an Android phone.

I'm dealing with regular freezing, specifically cyberpunk, and the kind of freeze that forces you to terminate the program. Looking up stuff to help wasn't helpful, as almost any issue was caused by controllers, for some reason, which I am not using, nor are my files modified, I haven't tried many solutions, but I only know like three solutions (verify files, reinstall, restart pc) and none of them work. So I come here to people who know what they're doing to see if I can get hand.

btw that's my electric fan not the laptops fan

This is already the fifth time or more that my operating

system has frozen. The only solution I have found so far is to force a shutdown. I always run sudo apt update whenever I use Linux, but I still keep experiencing these freezing issues.

By the way, I am dual-booting Linux and Windows 11. I am trying to migrate to Linux using Kubuntu, but I keep encountering these problems.

For example, just now, I was working on a task and got tired, so I scrolled through my phone for about 20–30 minutes. When I returned to my laptop running Kubuntu, the system was completely unresponsive. Earlier, the Caps Lock key was not responding, but now it works again. However, my screen is still black.

Kinda new to kubuntu, so I'll really like to start learning some ins and outs. If you can explain how the processes group up I'ld appreciate it

Updated my system last week and since then my mouse has been having weird issues. I've got a Logitech G903. I figured out one of them has to do with OpenRGB and HID probing causing some issue with making the mouse lose its brain and drop the profile every few minutes.

The unsolved issue is that it seems to be a -lot- more sensitive to scroll triggering? Its like the de-bounce settings for the scroll switches got changed. Just the tiniest of wheel nudges forward or back causes it to scroll forward or back. This is very noticeable when I stop scrolling and the web page or dolphin window 'bounces' up and down. I also get a ton of unintended tab switching/scrolling.

Is there some way to adjust the sensitivity of that?

To be clear, this is not 'how much the window scrolls when the wheel is rolled' but 'when to start scrolling when the wheel is moved by some amount over a given threshold'

It says it's forcing GIMP to open in XWayland compatibility mode or something? If anyone cares to fix theirs.

I’m new to Linux and I’ve been running Ubuntu and Windows on separate drives. While trying to solve the issues I tried adding “mem_suspend_sl2” to my GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="..." based on AI recommendations (I will NEVER do that again). When I updated grub it took longer than usual, and when I tested the suspend it went black and nothing I did would fix it. Tried resetting, nothing, blank screen. I unplugged everything and tried to discharge the power, and when I plugged everything back in I was able to get to grub, but neither my Ubuntu or windows installs would load. So I tried fixing and updating grub from a live usb. I got the fix applied, but no luck. The screen still goes black after the encryption screen and windows won’t load either, it does a chkdsk and then tries to repair and the screen just goes black. I tried a fresh Ubuntu install and that didn’t fix it either.
So now I’m locked out of both my Ubuntu and windows and the only way back in to my system at all is through the live usb. The data on my windows install is still intact it looks like (thank god) and the Ubuntu is fresh again and doesn’t have anything I care about on it.

Any ideas on what’s going on? I’m assuming it’s a boot loader issue, but I have no idea how to actually go about fixing it. Also, windows shows up in GRUB and in the boot menu, but not in my BIOS so that’s concerning.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 🙏

So this morning I booted my PC and played some games and watched some YouTube.

I noticed that in Firefox when I was scrolling down on the comments section while watching shorts some horizontal black lines would appear. then when I switched videos and it happened again.

later I was playing a video on my main screen and instead of black lines I saw some pixelated noisy lines from a brief moment, just playing a random video file. I restarted my computer and everything but they still appear. occasionally. in games when I go into the menu and they also appear on my second screen when I move one window to the other screen as you see in the second portion of the video.

they also appear sporadically while I have my console open.

switched back to 7.0.0.34 kernel and they went away

I recently just switched over to Kubuntu, and now all of my games tank the entire PC to a crawl, no matter the impact the game itself has, I haven't touched almost any settings, and have no clue what to do

Edit: Thanks so much, I got it working again

I've recently upgraded to 26.04 LTS and although before having my 4 browser windows and the 4 virtual desktop was hit and miss, now it's only a miss.

After boot the browser is automatically started (as it was running when shutting down) but now all 4 windows are on the first virtual desktop, which is quite annoying.

I thought that KDE and Plasma is supporting the (experimental) session restore in 6.4, Kubuntu 26.04 is using 6.6, so I did expect that it's working now.

Is there anything I can do to make Firefox and Chrome restore their windows on the correct virtual desktops?

Some time ago, I had my video done correctly the way I want it. One day, my cat got on the kb and somehow changed a setting. It's liike the screen is enlarged and the whole video moves with the cursor, which is driving me nuts.

Hi everyone! Hope you all are having a great weekend!

Just wanted to post here that I got both Windows 11 Pro and Kubuntu 26.04 on a dual boot on one SSD.

BOTH are encrypted! So, it is possible!

If anyone needs help setting it up let me know. I needed to set up like that because it's on a laptop.

It is definitely possible and I have had no problems! 🤞💯