Bug 392523

Summary:	Easier way to run apps on the dedicated GPU
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	markuss <kamikazow>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	agurenko, ali.sherif10, bizyaev, chermnykh2001, eliadevito, jeffrey.binns, jlp, kde-bugzilla.oink169, kdedev, liam.ginsjo, mrmazda, nate, ngompa13, plasma-bugs, pocallaghan, putr4.s, rdieter, yvan
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	usability
Version First Reported In:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description markuss 2018-03-30 14:21:55 UTC

If a second GPU is present, the context menu of an application's icon should display the option to run it using the dedicated GPU. If possible, it should be a generic feature that works across all application launchers – K menu, panel, desktop icons.

switcheroo-control <https://github.com/hadess/switcheroo-control> is a D-Bus service to check the availability of a second GPU.

The same feature in Gnome <https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-shell/commit/009d021e4f93bfce69d1f4497612d804c88972b6> required only 51 lines of code.

Comment 1 David Edmundson 2018-03-30 16:45:43 UTC

It should be implemented.

The UI is in right click -> edit application   this way your preference persists rather than having to right click every time.

Please reopen if not there

Comment 2 markuss 2018-03-30 23:51:37 UTC

(In reply to David Edmundson from comment #1)

> It should be implemented.

You're right. There are three problems though:

1. is that the context menu entry is not even there most of the time (details below)

2. in cases where it's there, it's a bit hard to discover (hidden behind an "Advanced" button in the third tab of a properties window)

3. The setting is not remembered.

> The UI is in right click -> edit application   this way your preference
> persists rather than having to right click every time.

Icon-only Task Manager: Only "Unpin" and "Settings".

Frequent Apps in Dashboard: "Forget" and "Add to Favorites".

Comment 3 ali.sherif10 2019-01-07 17:53:05 UTC

I suggest to add such option to Discover to enable running using discrete GPU from either KDE Menu or desktop shortcuts.

Comment 4 David Edmundson 2022-01-09 21:56:24 UTC

*** Bug 444709 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2022-06-01 19:11:09 UTC

*** Bug 454631 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Nate Graham 2022-11-10 17:06:15 UTC

*** Bug 461665 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 liam.ginsjo 2025-05-27 09:04:51 UTC

---- Upon further digging:
This functionality has been re-added to the "Edit Application" menu as of https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kmenuedit/-/commit/b559cb8f487b5ba66d9fe9f471b01b6e2ca4d8bf

Waiting for it to actually reach distributions.

Additionally, the feature has already been available if opening the file properties menu from Dolphin.

Potentially, this could be improved further by adding the option directly to the context menus of the application menu and the task manager widgets.

Regardless, this is resolved I believe.

Comment 8 Nate Graham 2025-05-28 17:26:41 UTC

This isn't really resolved; the idea is to be able to do it easily via a context menu or something.