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KDE Frameworks 6.22 Fixes Multiple Clipboard-Related Issues on Wayland

KDE Frameworks 6.22 is here to fix multiple clipboard-related issues on Wayland, including an issue that caused the current copied data from the Klipper clipboard app to be lost when closing the pop-up without selecting anything, and an issue where the Spectacle screenshot tool failed to copy screenshots to the clipboard.

KDE Gear 25.12.1 Released with Various Improvements for Your Favorite KDE Apps

KDE Gear 25.12.1 is here with improvements for the KDE Itinerary travel assistant app, which now features an extractor for KLM’s “Ticket for your trip” emails, support for extracting GOMUS annual tickets, and an updated KLM boarding pass extractor to also extract the boarding group.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 08, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. They Used to Say Avoid Nginx (or NGINX) Because It's Russian. Now You Can Say Avoid It Because It's Microsoft.
    Thankfully we quit using NGINX when we shut down our HTTP proxy for Gemini
  2. Peter Eckersley and 'Afterlife'
    It's better to look after one's health at present than to pursue all sorts of perceived 'insurance' policies
  3. Instead of Telegram People Should Use Free Software (Telegram Was Always Unsafe for Use)
    "Modern" so-called 'smart' 'phones' are compromised at the OS level or baseband side
  4. Techrights is a Demonstrably Popular Site, Reporting Suppressed Facts. Those Vouching for Its 'Unpopularity' Express a Desire Rather Than a Condition or a Fact.
    Our 100% source protection record will hold up
  5. Terms of Service (TOS) Under Scrutiny - Part XIV - Zoom the Beast
    breakdown of the Zoom TOS and corresponding privacy statement
  6. FSFE: Donate to Us to Co-Fund With Microsoft the Unpaid Underage Labour, YH4F
    Latest from FSFE
  7. Links 07/09/2024: China's Financial "Bond" to Africa and Attempts to Postpone Trump Criminal Cases
    Links for the day

    New

  8. Gemini Links 07/09/2024: Self Hosting (Not "CLOUD") and Site Reliability Engineering
    Links for the day
  9. The Arrest of Pavel Durov is Changing Telegram
    Remember that Telegram's founder, who is also French, cannot leave France until he satisfies those who detained him
  10. The Growth of GNU/Linux is Now a Mainstream Topic With Widespread Awareness
    We can do less counting (of baskets and eggs) and more advocacy
  11. The Free Software Movement Must Not Assume That Truth and Science Always Win
    Sometimes the bad people and the liars get ahead
  12. John Pilger's Site Relaunches, Wikileaks' Site Has Not Been Updated in Years
    We have long hoped that, more so after the release of Assange, Wikileaks will have some kind of "relaunch" or recovery
  13. Rage in the Propaganda Machine
    There has never been a better time to quit social control media
  14. Certificate Authorities (CAs) Are Serving the Authorities, Not You
    The centralised CAs "model" is not working
  15. A Terms of Service (TOS) Notion of "Consent"
    We're well past the true notion of real consent
  16. Links 07/09/2024: Qualcomm May Buy Parts of Intel, YouTube Deletes Channels for the US Government
    Links for the day
  17. No, Mastodon is Not Growing, Social Control Media is Generally Waning
    Our sister site pulled the plug on the whole thing over a year ago, seeing it was mostly a source of online abuse
  18. A Loss for Fake Security, a Win for Net Autonomy
    Crucifixion of domains has been ramping up this past week; it's a cautionary signal
  19. Links 07/09/2024: UK Police Raid Journalist's Home, Epoch Times Setbacks, and Karma
    Links for the day
  20. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  21. IRC Proceedings: Friday, September 06, 2024
    IRC logs for Friday, September 06, 2024
  22. linuxsecurity.com is Still Spamming the Web
    This is not harmless to Linux and it definitely merits a shun
  23. Gemini Links 07/09/2024: Freedom in Bareness, Reactions in Addictive Social Control Media
    Links for the day

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-09-01 to 2024-09-07
    1393 /n/2024/09/03/Microsoft_Lost_the_Search.shtml
    1116 /n/2024/09/03/Microsoft_is_Aiming_to_Kill_Both_Mono_and_WINE_in_One_Fell_Swoo.shtml
    988 /n/2024/09/06/Why_We_Are_Suing_Matthew_J_Garrett_for_Harassment_and_Why_It_s_.shtml
    953 /n/2024/09/01/Still_Waiting_for_Microsoft_to_be_Fined_Punished_Sanctioned_for.shtml
    903 /n/2024/09/06/Linux_Foundation_Technical_Advisory_Board_Has_Election_But_Goog.shtml
    899 /n/2024/09/03/Pay_Careful_Attention_to_How_Canonical_is_Promoting_Ubuntu.shtml
    869 /n/2024/09/02/As_New_Month_Commences_GNU_Linux_Blasts_Through_4_96_a_0_44_Inc.shtml
    768 /n/2024/09/01/Update_on_IBM_Layoffs_Wave.shtml
    764 /n/2024/09/04/Free_Software_Foundation_FSF_Board_Still_a_Happy_Family.shtml
    731 /n/2024/09/01/A_Beautiful_Year_for_GNU_Linux_But_We_Must_Fight_On.shtml

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Barbados Joining Growing Number of Nations Where GNU/Linux is Measured at Around 10% [original]
Did something happen there?
New GeForce NOW native Linux support could lure Windows 10 refugees
NVIDIA is reportedly preparing to bring NVIDIA GeForce NOW to Linux so that users finally have native support for the cloud gaming service
Fedora Dominated by IBM Staff, Red Hat is 100% Focused on Promoting Slop and Riding Bubbles
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Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) Officially Nears End of Life
Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) will reach end of life on January 15, 2026
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KDE Gear 25.12.1 Released with Various Improvements for Your Favorite KDE Apps
The KDE Project released today KDE Gear 25.12.1 as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 25.12 series of this collection of open-source apps for the KDE Plasma desktop environment and other platforms.
IPFire Linux Firewall Distro Adds Wi-Fi 7 and Wi-Fi 6 Support, LLDP and CDPv2
IPFire 2.29 Core Update 199 has been released today by developer Michael Tremer as a new update to this hardened Linux firewall distribution that primarily performs as a router and a firewall, which introduces Wi-Fi 7 support and many other changes.
 
Today in Techrights
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KDE Frameworks 6.22 Fixes Multiple Clipboard-Related Issues on Wayland
KDE Frameworks 6.22 open-source software suite is out now with various improvements and bug fixes for KDE apps and the Plasma desktop. Here’s what’s new!
Vitalik Buterin Rides the Credibility of Linux
Linux as a brand
Security and BSD Leftovers
just 2 more links for now
Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Open Access, and Standards
FOSS and more
Web Browsers: Brave Adblock Engine Rewrite, Using RSS, and Firefox Pushing Slop Dressed Up as Hey Hi (AI) After Removing RSS Support, Which Was Actually Useful
WWW picks
Programming Leftovers
Development related leftovers
Open Hardware/Modding: Fairphone, Raspberry Pi, and More
gadgets and more
Omarchy 3.3.0 Released
based on Arch
Dima Kogan has the Meshroom packaged for Debian, Reproducible Builds in December 2025
Debian picks
today's howtos
only 3 for now
Games: Steel Bounty, Dungeon Rampage, Wireworks, and Dig Dig Die
half a dozen new articles from GamingOnLinux
Does 1 in 10 Laptops/Desktops in Somalia Run GNU/Linux Now? [original]
statCounter sees the same duo at almost 10%
today's howtos
only half a dozen for now
Security Patching in GNU/Linux
Security leftovers
Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
FOSS picks
GNU/Linux Leftovers
kernel and more
Orange Pi RV2 and Octa-core RISC-V GNU/Linux laptop in 2026
some exciting Linux devices
Red Hat and Fedora Leftovers
mostly Red Hat, some Fedora
European Commission issues call for evidence on Free/Libre Software
FOSS win
Android Leftovers
I used the Honor Magic8 Pro, and the OnePlus 15 should be worried
This free tool gives you one easy way to install apps on Linux and Mac - here's how
With Homebrew, you get access to even more apps - maintained by both Linux and MacOS developers
The state of Enterprise Linux for networking
The open-source Linux operating system has emerged to be the foundation for cloud and networking across industries
Why do I use Linux? It's the apps, and here are 7 of my favorites
Many people say they would switch to Linux if it weren't for the lack of some Windows-exclusive apps
This lightweight distro loaded with apps is not your father's GNU/Linux - here's why
Lightweight Linux distributions get a bad rap for shipping with minimal reinstalled software
MUSE Book laptop review – Testing an octa-core RISC-V Linux laptop in 2026
SpacemiT sent me a sample of the MUSE Book RISC-V Linux laptop for review
Free and Open Source Software
This is free and open source software
CuerdOS 2.0 Skycatcher Xfce: Spanish Distro Takes Chances, Mostly Succeeds
CuerdOS 2.0 Skycatcher’s Xfce edition leans on Debian Trixie, custom tuning
GNU/Linux Rose to 6% in Benin, Says statCounter [original]
GNU/Linux gains
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leftovers focused on FOSS
Programming Leftovers
Development picks
Web Browsers/Web Servers: curl, RSS, and More
WWW centric picks
Linux and BSD Leftovers
This Week in Linux and more
Servers: Self-Hosted Grafana and Latest From Kubernetes
Server news
Android Leftovers
Your Android-powered car will get faster updates thanks to Qualcomm
Red Hat is Promoting Slop and Back Doors (Sold as "Confidential")
IBM and RHAT stuff
Devices With GNU/Linux and Open Hardware, 3-D Printing
On modding oriented machines
This Week in Plasma: new year, new accessibility features!
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Kernel deadlock and splitting a Linux kernel package
Linux and more
today's howtos
idroot and more
Games: Titles in Steam, Godot 4.6 Beta 3, Vista 11 at Risk as GNU/Linux Gains (RAM Prices Favour the Latter)
many picks for today
I built a project management dashboard with Linux KDE Plasma widgets (no apps needed)
Well, here’s how I used KDE Plasma widgets to turn my Linux desktop into a functional project management dashboard
5 reasons I stopped using Ubuntu
Ubuntu has long been the face of Linux
Sick of Microslop? New Linux distro could win over Windows 11 haters
This is markedly different from current Linux efforts on the Windows front
Make Gnome Screenshot Work Again in Ubuntu 25.10
For users who prefer the classic Gnome Screenshot tool
Free and Open Source Software
This is free and open source software
Stable kernels: Linux 6.18.4, and Linux 6.12.64
I'm announcing the release of the 6.18.4 kernel
Fedora, GNU-like Mobile Linux, and Fake 'FSF' (FSF-EEE)
some leftovers
Android Leftovers
Google’s new Android source code release schedule is bad news for custom ROMs
Immutable Distro Nitrux 5.1 Released with Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS, New Tools
Nitrux developer Uri Herrera announced today the general availability of Nitrux 5.1 as a new stable update to this immutable and systemd-free distribution featuring new and updated components.
TUXEDO InfinityBook Max 16 Gen10 Linux Laptop Unveiled with New OLED Display
Linux hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers unveiled today the 10th generation (Gen10) of their TUXEDO InfinityBook Max 16 Linux-powered laptop with newer NVIDIA GPUs, newer Intel CPU, and a new display.
Someone made a sticky notes app within the Linux terminal, and you can download it right now
Ever since I made the jump over to Linux
This new Linux app lets you control your PC with your voice, and it's free
EasySpeak should fill a notable gap in the Linux ecosystem where many existing voice tools are either proprietary
Disable Lock Screen Media Controls in GNOME 49 (Ubuntu 25.10, Fedora 43)
This tutorial shows how to disable the media controls in the lock screen of GNOME 49 desktop in Ubuntu 25.10, Fedora 43
6 things Windows users always get wrong about Linux (and what’s actually true)
There are many misconceptions about Linux
This Linux distro is for people who just want games to work
There's no shortage of gaming-focused Linux distros right now
3 must-try tools if you want Windows-like desktop widgets on Ubuntu
During a recent visit to Stack Exchange's Unix and Linux section
I Thought This Wikipedia App for Linux was Pointless (I Was Wrong)
When I saw Wike in the GNOME Software store, I thought
Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
This is free and open source software
Debian Urgently Seeks Volunteers After Data Protection Team Resigns
Debian seeks contributors interested in privacy to restore its Data Protection Team after all members stepped back
Games: Humble Bundle, More Gaming Handhelds Running GNU/Linux, SteamOS 3.7.19
9 picks from GamingOnLinux
Fedora 44 Will Be the First Distro to Adopt KDE's Plasma Login Manager
KDE recently announced that Plasma 6.8 will drop X11 support completely
Try Joplin: Your Open Source Evernote Alternative
If you rely heavily on note-taking apps and want to switch from a proprietary to an open-source solution
One Week of 2026 [original]
It has now been 7 days in the new year
Recent HowTos From Make Tech Easier
4 recent articles
GNU/Linux and Hardware Leftovers
mostly GNU/Linux
Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Programming Leftovers
FOSS and more
Recent Valnet Articles on GNU/Linux Work Through the Shell/Bash/Terminal
5 recent articles
Simon Batt's (Valnet) Journey Through GNU/Linux Distros, Including One on a Floppy Disk
a pair of recent articles
5 tiny Linux tools that replace big, heavy apps
It just works, and that's enough
Red Hat: Elections in Fedora, systemd Update, and Flathub Record
IBM et al
Linux package managers beat the Microsoft Store in every way
And it's not even close
6 Linux distros that are perfect for rescuing your PC
Whether it's destined for a closet or a landfill, these distros can be a perfect way to keep your PC alive
System76's Rust-based COSMIC desktop for Linux is here — and it's amazing
Most of the Linux distros I usually recommend to people tend to either use GNOME or KDE. Those 2 dominate the space
Newly discovered Unix V4 tape
UNIX is sort of back
Kernel: BPF, Memory Use, and "Episode 29 of the Dirk and Linus show"
Linux coverage from LWN
Red Hat, Bazaar (Flatpak), and Hey Hi (AI) Hype Instead of GNU/Linux or FOSS
IBM stuff
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