In the past I have used the xmonad tiling window manager but eventually returned to KDE, because I had some problems with truncated text in terminal windows, needed to be able to run a complicated GUI that was not very suited for a tiling window manager and I thought there was not that much difference in performance. …

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Once upon a time, while using Debian I had a problem with Docker containers and suspend/resume. Docker resume/thaw problems? When you use Docker containers on your development system and experience problems after a resume from a suspend (or a thaw from a hibernate). On my Debian Stable KDE system –after a resume of my …

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A dark theme approach for Emacs running under KDE (Debian Linux). Alternative approach Configure the Invert desktop effect under KDE system settings and use Ctrl-Meta-U to activate it for the Emacs window (which uses the regular light theme). This gives a very nice dark theme like effect, which is perfect for coding …

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With my Eclipse running under KDE (Debian Linux) the dark themes in Eclipse suffer from side effects. Like the disappearance of the little menu in the title area of the window's tabs. Alternative approach Configure the Invert desktop effect under KDE system settings and use Ctrl-Meta-U to activate it for the Eclipse …

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The KDE desktop environment supports environment variables. These are active when logged in to KDE. Contrary to regular bash environment variables, which are active only when a bash shell is started. To set KDE environment variables create a file in the .kde4/env or .kde/env directory, e.g. as follows: 1export …

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