▲ 5 r/cachyos
How do I get Steam Link on CachyOS?
I don't see an option for it on CachyOS' Package Installer (nor do i see Moonlight and Sunshine on there).
u/BusElectronic4225 — 23 hours ago
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▲ 22 r/unixporn
[KDE Plasma 6] Built a native Wayland audio HUD widget for my desktop
Wanted something that sat on the wallpaper and told me what my audio stack was actually doing. Conky felt wrong on Wayland so I wrote a proper Plasma 6 plasmoid in QML instead.
Shows live PipeWire stats — output device, codec, sample rate, bit depth, active streams, and a bit-perfect indicator that goes green when nothing is being resampled.
Follows your KDE color scheme automatically so it fits whatever theme you're running.
Details:
- OS: CachyOS
- DE: KDE Plasma 6
- Widget: Audio HUD (mine) — https://github.com/noisetta/audio-hud
Headphones: Grado RS1i
u/BusElectronic4225 — 2 days ago
▲ 20 r/kde
Audio HUD — a native Plasma 6 widget for live PipeWire audio stats
Built this because I wanted a desktop widget that actually told me what my audio stack was doing. Existing solutions were either Conky-based (XWayland, no proper transparency) or not updated for Plasma 6.
This is a fully native Wayland plasmoid written in QML using `Plasma5Support.DataSource` — no Python, no external scripts, just QML and two small shell helpers bundled inside the plasmoid.
What it shows:
- Output device, codec (from `/proc/asound/`), sample rate, bit depth
- Active streams with their format
- Bit-perfect indicator — compares stream format against sink format
- Volume with mute detection and low/medium/high icons
- Adaptive theming via Kirigami
**Requires:** Plasma 6.0+, PipeWire, plasma5support
GitHub + plasmoid download: https://github.com/noisetta/audio-hud
Happy to hear from anyone who runs into issues on different hardware — sink detection in particular might behave differently depending on your audio setup.
u/BusElectronic4225 — 2 days ago
▲ 14 r/linuxaudio
Native KDE Plasma 6 widget that shows live PipeWire audio stats on your desktop
Not really sure how I came up with this idea, I think I was a bit bored and looking for something to add to my wallpaper, specifically something that shows some simple audio info.
I couldn't really find any suitable widget for wayland/plasma 6 so I made one with Claude.
This is what it has/is:
- Active output device and codec (reads directly from `/proc/asound/`)
- Sample rate and bit depth of the active PipeWire sink
- Active playback streams with their format
- A **bit-perfect indicator** — green when your stream format matches the sink exactly, red when PipeWire is resampling
- Mute state and volume level
- Switches to ⚠ RESAMPLING or ⚠ OFFLINE automatically
Fully self-contained QML — no Python, no external dependencies beyond PipeWire and `pactl`. Follows your KDE color scheme automatically.
GitHub: https://github.com/noisetta/audio-hud
Feedback welcome, especially from people running USB DACs or more complex PipeWire setups, actually kinda curious whether the sink detection works correctly across different hardware configurations.
u/BusElectronic4225 — 2 days ago
▲ 23 r/cachyos
Just jumped ship from Pop!_os Cosmic to CachyOS KDE Plasma
Been braving Cosmic for a couple of months now, and everyday that passed I kept telling myself, "it's gonna get better, be patient".
Yea, well I just about had enough and couldn't take it anymore. Waiting for updates that only partially fixed things, the constant low-level friction got to me.
The taskbar applets would randomly stop working or disappear entirely, dark/light mode would only partially apply so half the desktop was one theme and half was another, videos would refuse to open (or open in the wrong app, or not open at all), and the file manager cosmic-files would just silently fail to launch when clicked. The cherry on top was clicking it once, giving up, moving on with my day, and having two cosmic-files windows spawn 10 minutes later on top of whatever I was doing. Resulting to installing a new file manager is just nuts. No printer support too. No gui indications for drive management (safe eject, formatting??). Wild stuff.
I honestly can't believe Cosmic was released in this state. I mean, it was released in alpha in mid-2024 and in my opinion it has stayed in alpha since....
Anyways, CachyOS looks awesome so far, damn.
I'm running it with Plasma KDE and really liking it.
All I have to get used to now is fish. Coming from bash might be a bit of a learning curve but I like what I see. (yes i know I can use bash still or zsh) 😄
So far, happy to be here.
u/BusElectronic4225 — 3 days ago
I've been trying to identify a game I played as a kid in the mid-1990s on a Macintosh Power PC. Here's everything I remember:
- Platform: Macintosh (Power PC), mid-1990s
- Graphics: Fully black & white / monochrome — no color whatsoever
- Sound: None that I can recall — completely silent
- Genre: Side-scrolling action platformer
- Protagonist: A ninja dressed entirely in black (or white top, black pants?)
- Gameplay: You could kick (i think it was more of a running jump kick), throw shurikens (i think), and jump. Enemies fired black bullet projectiles at you that you had to jump over to avoid.
- Visuals: Very sparse/minimal scenery — not much background detail at all, very bare-bones looking
- How I found it: I believe It was part of a larger collection of games on a CD or disk — possibly a shareware or magazine cover disc compilation
- Possible title: I believe it may have been called "The One" but I'm not 100% certain on this
It wasn't a well-known commercial title as far as I know — it had the feel of a small shareware or freeware game. It may have been quite obscure. Any help identifying it would be hugely appreciated!
u/BusElectronic4225 — 30 days ago