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    13 hours ago

    @victorz @Gemini24601 Do you mean the app icons on the bottom bar being separated from the launcher icon on the left? The task manager (which displays the app icons) & the launcher (which gives you a categorized list of all installed apps when couches) are different widgets in modern Plasma. You can put other widgets between them, such as a panel spacer like what’s shown here. A panel spacer is an invisible widget that takes up a certain amount of space on a panel or can be made “flexible”, which will cause it to take up all available space but allow other widgets to take that space back whenever they push against it. Two panel spacers are holding the task manager in the middle of the panel.




  • @BuboScandiacus I don’t know about a command that can do that, but usually the manufacturer will have that information. Search the video decoding capabilities of your GPU’s chipset. Mine is an Acer Predator Bifrost with an AMD Radeon 7600 chipset, so I search “Radeon 7600 video decoding”. Usually your fetch program can tell you what your graphics card is, but sometimes it can’t tell. Mine can’t tell what exactly my graphics card is, but I can still find out by reading what it says on the graphics card itself or the box it came in.



  • @BuboScandiacus It doesn’t slow it down, but it might be because it’s a very small video & the computer is good. The computer has video decoding hardware for the video format I’m using, so that might be reducing resource usage more. The wallpaper also supports automatically pausing the video under certain conditions to free resources, such as low battery or a window being fullscreen. I haven’t tried this on a worse computer. It should only slow down the computer if it uses the CPU to decode the video, which happens if your graphics hardware doesn’t support the format, or if the file is large & consumes alot of memory. I transcoded the video to AV1 because my graphics card can understand that format & because videos in that format have a very small file size. It’s probably best to try out different things & see which one slows down your computer the least.




  • @checksout I missed this!
    I got the split panel & side bar by just making two more panels. Plasma lets you add extra panels & put them on whichever side of the screen you want. For the two bottom panels I had to manually adjust their sizes so they would only fill the left half or the right half of the bottom. You can probably do this with other desktops that have panels or if you only have a window manager & a bar there’s probably a way to duplicate that bar. I think I’ve seen similar things done with Waybar but I don’t know if it’s really two bars or if it’s just visual. I’m only familiar with Plasma so I have no idea how to do this with anything else.