Hi pals! When writing this post out I realized the answer is probably “it’s not ready yet” but hey, can’t hurt to ask. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get KDE Plasma Big Screen on Bazzite? I’m not sure it’s it’s in usable shape but I would really like to try it. It’s in weird territory - I saw reports it would be added natively to KDE Plasma 6.7 but I can’t find it on my desktop running Fedora 44 w/ KDE Plasma 6.7.5.
Going through this page on the Bazzite docs:
- It’s not in the Bazzite Portal
- Not in the Bazaar Store (I don’t believe there is a flatpak version)
- Homebrew doesn’t seem to be applicable
- Containers seem like they wouldn’t be quite right since it’ll have a lot of KDE dependencies.
- I don’t believe there’s an AppImage of it.
- rpm-ostree isn’t recommended, last resort, etc.
It may just be too early for this but I figured I’d ask - don’t be afraid to just say it’s too much of an ask right now 😅
EDIT:
At least for the short term, rpm-ostree has worked! I ran the command:
rpm-ostree install plasma-bigscreen
The package took a few moments to install but so far it’s working well - I was able to open KDE Plasma Bigscreen, open Emby, watch a video, and then exit Emby without having to use a mouse.
Whether or not I’ll have issues updating things in the future, which is noted as a possible outcome of using rpm-ostree here, who knows!
Yeah, no
Ostree is made for exactly that: taking a base and modifying it.
Fair, I was just going off of the official Bazzite docs which specifically say “not recommended, use as a last resort” and “Layering packages irresponsibly can be destructive and may prevent updates as well as other issues until the layered packages are removed.”
Yes, those are indeed problems you can face that are solved with something like flatpak
However, as long as you aren’t installing random packages which are not made to work with fedora and its update cycle (plasma big screen is in its official repos) you probably won’t have any problem