Hey guys Ive been encountering plenty of problems in kubuntu 26.04 that wont help me use my pc normally:
Translucenty and wouble window effects get reaplied after each reboot without my consent like wtf
Chrome on xorg with using the built in classic option from apearance, the titlebar buttons disapear when i try to type on the adressbar
Plymouth animation apears during transition from sddm to desktop (I have selected None as a transition)
The locale on the time widget in taskbar rejects any effort to be changed and still uses the greek time format ΠΜ, ΜΜ, When i clearly setted it to american am pm
I seriously need to find a solution cause the name implies LTS meaning stable not unstable
@skyfishgoo For chrome, I switched to flatpack which helped fix it…Tho im actually wondering if im loosing anything compared to deb…I mean does it get updated soon as new deb comes?
For now atleast for my system to be usable I need your help to actually fix plymouth apearing during sddm to desktop transition and when logging out. Is there a misconfiguration that causes this and how? I dont use a splash transition and I want a black screen, Plymouth should interfier normally
For locale my fix was creating a bash script sudo chmod +x /etc/profile.d/force-lc-time.sh. Inside I wrote export LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 and I was fine
Finally, the new sddm font in password textbox is messed up, the circles symbols are down instead of center…Am I the only one who sees this? Is this maybe a missing font?
For chrome, I really don’t recommend using classic. Instead use Qt, which works great, and enable the title bar to you can manage the window like others in plasma. That’s with the official deb, and it works very well. The actual picks and other recommendations are found here: Kubuntu Focus: Browsers Guided Solution .
Please use Wayland and a breeze theme. That can fix a lot too.
As for the SDDM dots being one pixel too low, you can replace the dot asset in the SDDM theme directory to bump it up. If you do that, please file a MR so others may benefit. Personally, I’d just live with it.
@depmann Yea but what about plymouth? This is really annoying, it basically apears as a still image for a sec or 2 when Trantitioning from sddm to desktop. Even after using a splash screen it didnt hide it
The actual default setting in I believe is to disable this (or it was, I’d have to check the current value). However, this was ignored, so the splash screen remains.
You might try setting it to a blank splash image instead of disabling it. Please let me know if that works; I bet it will.
Personally every time I’ve tried Kubuntu I always have problems too. I generally run either Fedora KDE or Ultramarine KDE (Fedora with all the stuff enabled you’d do after an install like codecs, non-free repos etc). While it does update more often than an LTS, I still find it more stable than Ubuntu’s LTS releases.
With the time/local issues are you dual booting Windows by any chance?
At least the wobbly windows and translucency are easily fixed. Open ~/.config/kwinrc and under [Plugins] set translucencyEnabled=false and wobblywindowsEnabled=false.
As it is mentioned here… users had simular problems with other browsers about same minimize and maximize buttons problem disapearing but on wayland…my problem was on xorg thats strange. I also need to note that on flatpack I dont have this issue
In my case it was not enough to disable wobbly windows in ~/.config/kwinrc (I don"t have problem with translucency). I also had to disable it in /usr/share/kubuntu-default-settings/kf5-settings. Regarding Chrome (or Chromium): I always use the flatpak version. Earlier I had problems with it (but only on Wayland).
