Elevated privileges applications and dark theme in kde plasma

To fix it for apps with elevated privileges run this command: $ sudo pkexec env DISPLAY=$DISPLAY XAUTHORITY=$XAUTHORITY KDE_SESSION_VERSION=5 KDE_FULL_SESSION=true dbus-launch systemsettings5 Fix elevated GTK2/3 apps:Then open the newly opened system settings and choose the breeze dark theme in quick settings.Go…

Apache Guacamole on Docker easy installation

To easily install apache guacamole on docker the fastest way was to use this image: This image is not maintained since 3 years. Fortunately there is an image created by jwetzell to continue the initial work This image…

VPN L2TP, swisscom-box-2 and Fedora 37 KDE

I configured my VPN server on my swisscom internet-box 2 as indicated in this documentation enabling the VPN server: creating VPN credentials and shared key: Connection from my Iphone worked immediately, but for my Fedora laptop it was another story.…

Homer installation

I want to display on a static page all the links to application and services I often use. Organizr, Heimdall, are too complex to setup for what I need, I found Homer which is configurable with only one yaml file,…

Simply Ubuntu 22.04

I really appreciate all ubuntu KDE based distribution. For ubuntu 22.04 LTS I wanted to try Gnome and evaluate if it would be nice for my daily usage. Simply Yes! Integration and customization of the dock is now easy and…

Connect Portainer to remote docker instance

I run several services via docker on different devices. I wanted to manage all these docker instances via one Portainer docker instance. The connection to the local docker instance on 192.168.1.100 is done using Unix socket following this documentation The…

Function key on Thinkpad E14 Gen2

My laptop has a bug related to Fn keys not working without go to sleep mode (related to a BIOS problem see here ). Yesterday I updated my BIOS to the latest version (1.17) and now my laptop does not…

Neon – Btrfs – timeshift – autosnap

I installed KDE Neon with BTRFS filesystem to get the full benefit of Timeshift snapshots. My disk is formatted as follow: 300 mb fat32 partition mounted on /boot/efi rest of disk with BTRFS filesystem mounted on / After installation completion…