Ugurcan@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoKDE Plasma Bigscreen (Android TV alternative) is back from deadwww.neowin.netexternal-linkmessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1754arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1752arrow-down1external-linkKDE Plasma Bigscreen (Android TV alternative) is back from deadwww.neowin.netUgurcan@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square72fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoOr is it a “mode” of KDE? Like can you use a distro of KDE and then put it into Bigscreen mode?
minus-squareWhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·18 hours 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…?
minus-squareikidd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-22 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
Or is it a “mode” of KDE? Like can you use a distro of KDE and then put it into Bigscreen mode?
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…?
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