Month: November 2024

bookmark_borderWeb Search Keywords

Posted on by marcdeop

Did you know about a small but very useful feature from KDE?

Open krunner via Alt+Space and type qw:KDE to search Qwant for KDE:

Pressing Enter will open up your browser with the specified KDE search on Qwant!

There are a lot of other Web Search Keywords like:

Wikipedia:

Invent:

Translate from English to German on dict.cc

You can find all of them by opening Web Search Keywords on krunner:

Extra: Create your own!

I use often a Fedora tool called COPR, so let’s use it as an example to create our own web search keyword.

Do your search in the webpage:

And now the important part you need:

Now back to the Web Search Keyword settings:

Fill in the data needed taking care of the placeholder for our input!:

Now we have our own Web Search Keyword:

NOTE: for some reason I had to click on Apply and OK until all the different setting windows were closed before the new custom Web Search Keyword worked

And the result:

I hope it’s useful to somebody!

bookmark_borderFedora KDE Enabling Third Party Repositories

Posted on by marcdeop

As you may know, Fedora KDE 41 was released a couple of weeks ago.

I wanted to talk about a special feature that our colleague @farchord (with support from upstream developer @Nate Graham) has brought to our Fedora KDE distribution:

Enabling Third Party Repositories With A Single Click!

Thanks to the flexibility of plasma-welcome we can offer this feature 🙂

Right after installing Fedora and on first login you will be presented with the Plasma Welcome window:

Before you click on Skip , you can go through the different slides to read about KDE and Fedora and also to decide whether you want to contribute with anonymous metrics or not (note: I personally do not):

Here is where the interesting part comes in, on the next slide:

With a simple click of a button you will enable the most commonly requested by our users Third Party Repositories like rpmfusion! (note: you will be asked for your administrator password)

Once the request is processed, the message will change to:

That’s it! You have successfully enabled Third Party Repositories without needing to modify any file or running any command whatsoever 🙂

Before you do anything with your system and your new configuration, I will strongly recommend to update your system via Plasma Discover :

Proceed with all the update and reboot to get the latest and shiniest from our repositories.

Finally, to verify that the Third Party software is available, you can check:

And that is it!

Enjoy!

This is all thanks to farchord, siosm , aleasto and ngraham‘s work!