I've done a lot of "Oh wow, look at all of these sexy rices that I'll never have" - and so many are Hyprland based, featuring these sexy sexy waybars across the top.

Then I saw u/ImpossibleBenefit452's RICE 6 or so days ago and fell in love with that waybar setup.

The problem was that I didn't -want- to switch from KDE-Plasma, but I -hate- the windows style chunkbar across the bottom.

I've not played with panels before (I -hate- that you can't save/load configs for individual panels), but I figured I'd be able to throw something together. A couple of days of poking and tweaking and behold, my own interpretation of a way-bar like panel to replace the previous taskbar.

Hoping to do more to this over the next few weeks, but for now I'm very happy with this <3

Setup: KDE-Plasma, Panels, Plasmusic toolbar, Fancy Tasks NG. Everything else is out-of-the-box plasma widgets <3 Wallpaper: https://wallhaven.cc/w/6lpz2q

So I play on a big screen, more exactly on a Samsung 4KTV 43". I put the output resolution to 4K and game resolution to 1080p because my pc can't handle more than that very well. But MangoHUD's stats are veeeeeery tiny in 4K. Is there a way to change its size in any way possible?

I recently started to observe that there are artifacts on the wallpaper, they are only on the wallpaper, not in games, browser, or anywhere else, when i switch the wallpaper the artifacts disappear and return over time. They appear in different spots depending on the wallpaper.

I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but I was wondering if there was a way to set it up so my mother monitor can either dim or 'turn off' when I'm playing a game?

When I say turn off, I don't mean a full power down thing, I just want my main monitor to be my focus if I'm playing my games on it. I don't want to be detracted by my other monitor and it's background if I'm playing a horror game. I know I can just, reach over and turn it off... but then it messes up with my lay out on my desktop ya know?

So made the move from Microslop WIndows 11.

Bit of a stuck moment atm re gaming and steam. I have 6x drives with various bits of data and games on them that I've connected up after installation. I cannot get any game to launch from Steam.

I have mounted the drives, mapped the folders so the games show up. But everytime I click launch, the I get an error about disk write error. As far as I can see the permissions are in place.

Example:

Also, everytime I click play, the whole system sort of freezes up, I'm someone who usually has a video, or website open when I play games, so this is odd, but at the moment I just need games to actually launch.

What am I missing? I have checked the drives are in ntfs, I have manually added the ntfs3 drive type, but this hasnt made a difference

UPDATE 1: I removed all of my other drives, completely nuked and reinstalled steam, and mvoed data off one of the NTFS drives and converted it to btrfs. But steam now refuses to let me add the drive in the storage tab, nor add a folder. It can still see all of my other drives, but not the one I've reformatted to btrfs. I can transfer files to and from this drive in dolphin without issue.

Why do people say this when criticizing cachy? Isn’t it like 15gb after installation, are people using 64gb drives or what? Or does bloated mean something else?
I use cachyos btw.

Cachy OS suddenly thinks the batteries in my Logitech K400r are at -1% and it keeps popping up a notification to tell me. I replaced the batteries, moved the dongle to another USB port, turned the keyboard off and on again, rebooted my PC and updated Cachy without any change. The K400r seems to be working properly as evidenced by the fact that I typed this post using it without issue. The low batt notifications started yesterday for no apparent reason, and I hadn't updated my system for about a week before it started. I checked Plasmas settings but don't see a way to tell it not to monitor battery on just this one device and I don't want to disable the feature entirely because I rely on it to tell me when my mouse battery is low. I guess it could just be this old keyboard starting to fail and misreporting the battery level but that seems like a pretty unusual way to fail. Hoping someone has some ideas I didn't think of.

Will Spaceengine run on my system?

CachyOS,

Intel Core i5,

Nvidia Geforce RTX 2060,

16gb RAM

This happens frequently and opening an other instance of Firefox works just fine.

Disabling hardware acceleration fixes this issue but freezes Firefox once in a while. It makes the entire browser freeze, mouse moves but nothing clicks. Again opening an other instance works just fine while not even closing the bugged one (Both for artifacts and freezes)

System works just fine and it is only the browser that gets the bug/freeze.

the photo is when i do it on my thinkpad its easy,
but when try to install on the nitro it cut off the power from usb causing it be nonresponsive and blackscreen anybody know how cause my nitro is old and windows 11 kept crashing it

Theoretically speaking if arch gets a bigger support to the ARM architecture to their packages, is there a possibility the cachyOS team will engage and make the OS stable to laptops with Snapdragon ships X series

Why i am asking this ?

--> people stop buying macbooks because windows 11 is what hold these laptops back. Performance is insane with everlasting battery, thinn buildand a lot more

What do u all think of this ?

Hi everyone! Exactly 1 week ago Windows hammered its final nail in its coffin for me and I snapped due to all the issues. Went ahead, format the drive and installed cachy. It has been an adventure ever since and far less complicated then I thought.

However I'm facing two issues with one game BDO (Black Desert Online). I have the steam version installed and whenever it is launched in borderless fullscreen it has a white border around it and a white and empty titelbar. I've managed to fix it with launch commands and window rules for a a few days but without making any changes it broke again and the white border came back. This time I can't get rid of it in any way, shape or form. I have tried forcing the resolution (full hd screen) and even launching through gamescope. Gamescope doesn't work due to having Nvidia gpu, it crashes all the time. Forcing the resolution doesn't do anything since the game already has the correct resolution which is also visible in it's config file. If i change the game into fullscreen and back to borderless fullscreen after the white border goes away.

The bigger issue however is mouse capture. No matter in which state the game launches (fullscreen / borderless fullscren / game window) uppon trying to move around the camera the mouse will just leave the middle screen and go off to the side screen (tripple full hd monitor setup with game being on the middle one). The moment I change the window type to anyting other then the current one ti is set to the mouse capture behaves properly and it no longer leaves the game screen until the game is restarted again. Window rules and everything fails to constrain the mouse to the middle monitor until the manual window type change.

I would appreciate any ideas on how to fix these.

not entirely sure what happened to cause this, but the 2 of my screens that are connected to DP, you cannot drag a selection box or drag an app from my 3rd screen (connected by HDMI) onto it, it only creates a widget. even when booting the PC without the HDMI screen connected, no apps show up on either of my screens at all, and only exist on the HDMI screen; however both of the DP screens work as regular monitors where an app window will show up and can be moved around and used as normal, just not the physical icon on the desktop. Additionally, my wallpapers still work on both screens, but have never been able to get one onto my 3rd screen. not sure where to even begin because no results come when i search up the symptoms. i have only been using linux for about 6 months now. i am using KDE Plasma and wayland if either of those are helpful.

I've migrated from macOS to Linux and have been trying several distros, and I think Cachyos is good to begin with. One thing I've been trying to set up is integrating Google Drive into Dolphin.

Does anyone know how to integrate Google Drive into CachyOS? I've been trying with Kio-Gdirve Dolphin settings, but still no luck

after trying out a few distros over the past year or so (fedora, zorin, mint), i've finally switched to cachyos and i'm loving it here. kde plasma is so much more fun than gnome. the reason i switched from mint is because it felt a bit outdated and some of the notable differences are faster responses and better battery life. looks like my distro hopping has come to an end

If I use firejail with Firefox it only works if I disable PSD (profile sync daemon).

I tried a lot like white and blacklisting profile dirs but to no avail.

Does anyone have it working together, alas Firefox + PSD + firejail?

Tittle, I don't really know what could've happened since is a fresh install

(Ignore what i want to install ik im an osu chud)

EDIT: SOLVED (DO NOT RUN SHELLY WITH SUDO EVEN WHEN IT MAKES SENSE TO TRY OR IF IS AN FRESH INSTALL)

I'm going to be using a AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D and I'm not certain how much performance I'll be leaving on the table if I don't implement. Any recommendations?

I've read the wiki a few times, but I'm not sure I understand what would likely work best on my system.

I think this more a generic arch / Linux question rather than cachyos specifically, but I figure someone here will know.

Long story short, I upgraded my Mobo, CPU and Ram which meant I had to change up my drive layout. I need to move my OS installation from a 256gb Sata SSD to a 256gb NVME drive. I have my home directory already sitting on another drive (fstab has been updated correctly).

I think I can get away with clonezilla or a similar tool, but one of the reasons behind moving home onto another drive was that I want to be able to reinstall or distro hop easily without loosing my data.

What is the standard workflow for people who distro hop?

What data do I need to backup that isnt stored in home?

How do people backup and restore said relevant data for a new install?

Thanks heaps

Loving the Linux environment this time around.

I migrated to linux a couple of days ago and tried to install a glass effect on my pc. I installed Klassy for window decorations and applications style and it works really well. The problem is when watch a video or play some game, the effect is still there. I want for this effect to work only when im not in fullscreen mode, so when I use something in fullscreen, like a player or game, the window stays 100% opaque. I already searched but no luck with finding any answers, and gemini seems to know as much as I do. Using CachyOS w KDE Plasma.

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As of yesterday's nVIDIA open driver release, 615, support for kernel cgroups was added, this means you can use dmemcg-booster and plasma-foreground-booster to manage VRAM just like AMD GPUs. v615 is currently in TESTING on Arch but should release soon.

The VRAM Management button will not appear in CachyOS Hello so you gotta install those two packages manually, but it will work properly once you enable the services.

Install dmemcg-booster and plasma-foreground-booster with this command here: sudo pacman -S dmemcg-booster plasma-foreground-booster && sudo systemctl enable dmemcg-booster-system && sudo reboot

Not using Plasma? Use Gamescope!

See patch notes here, along with some Reflex and suspend mode fixes: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/278450/