Ugurcan@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoKDE Plasma Bigscreen (Android TV alternative) is back from deadwww.neowin.netexternal-linkmessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1759arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1757arrow-down1external-linkKDE Plasma Bigscreen (Android TV alternative) is back from deadwww.neowin.netUgurcan@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square72fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 days agoOr is it a “mode” of KDE? Like can you use a distro of KDE and then put it into Bigscreen mode?
minus-squareikidd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-23 days agoIt’s using plasma-nano session, which is a minimal Plasma session, and adding a launcher and settings app from what I can see. You can run it in a regular window if you install the dependencies and use kde-builder to compile it and run. See the Dev docs at https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-bigscreen/ If you do decide to install all the kde-builder stuff, I’d suggest you use a distrobox container to make it easy to remove the many, many packages that it will install in order to set up the build environment
minus-squareWhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoIt’s not that. Or at least you have to reboot into it. …or can you just load a desktop environment without rebooting… Keeping your apps open…?
Or is it a “mode” of KDE? Like can you use a distro of KDE and then put it into Bigscreen mode?
It’s using plasma-nano session, which is a minimal Plasma session, and adding a launcher and settings app from what I can see.
You can run it in a regular window if you install the dependencies and use kde-builder to compile it and run. See the Dev docs at https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-bigscreen/
If you do decide to install all the kde-builder stuff, I’d suggest you use a distrobox container to make it easy to remove the many, many packages that it will install in order to set up the build environment
It’s not that. Or at least you have to reboot into it.
…or can you just load a desktop environment without rebooting… Keeping your apps open…?