KDE Plasma 6.0.4 Is Out to Improve Plasma Wayland, System Monitor, and More - 9to5Linux

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kadu@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y (4 replies)

My desire to remain in a frozen-release stable distro conflicts with my desire to follow KDE's bleeding edge development

sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Yea the hype train is real on that one :)

I solve that the following way:

On my private machine, I use arch with the newest features.

Work related I am using debian testing on the laptop. The packages are not the newest but I know everything is stable and upades are not in my way. (KDE 6 will arrive there late summer)

pineapplelover@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

On my work/school machine I run arch but don't update as frequently lol

mcmacker4@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Have you heard of KDE Neon? Wikipedia says:

KDE neon is a Linux distribution developed by KDE based on Ubuntu long-term support (LTS) releases, bundled with a set of additional software repositories containing the latest versions of the Plasma 6 desktop environment/framework, Qt 6 toolkit and other compatible KDE software.

fossphi@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

I would not recommend KDE Neon. Qt applications (like Calibre) sometimes have problems because they're taken from Ubuntu(?) repos but Neon ships their own Qt libs which can cause conflicts.

Andy@programming.dev · 5 pts · 2y (11 replies)

Anyone notice non-obvious Wayland road blocks?

I think the last thing keeping me on X11 is window shade.

MrMcGasion@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Mine is that the "fake session restore" hasn't landed yet (it will in 6.1) so the half-dozen konsole and dolphin windows I tend to leave open between reboots don't re-open after rebooting under Wayland.

The reason it's called "fake session restore" is that the Wayland session restore protocol isn't finalized, so as a temporary workaround Plasma on Wayland will re-launch the applications and leave it up to the individual programs to restore their last state.

burgersc12@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 2y (5 replies)

For some reason when i use Wayland it shows weird artifacts on the bottom of my screen. Doesn't happen on X11 so I'll stick with that until it gets fixed

Rustmilian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (4 replies)
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burgersc12@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Asrock 6900 XT OC

Rustmilian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)
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burgersc12@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 2y

Yeah, ill do that. Seems to only be when scale is set to 150/175, setting to 200% fixed it it seems!

burgersc12@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 2y
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Rustmilian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)
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Andy@programming.dev · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

As described at https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kwin/kcontrol/windowbehaviour/index.html#titlebar-actions

Shade

Causes the window to be reduced to simply the titlebar.

Rustmilian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
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devfuuu@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Not really. I was a heavy critic of the state kde was in because of fractional scalling sucking a lot, but I've been using it on 2 pcs and am now pretty happy. Does everything I need it to.

ConstantPain@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 2y (7 replies)

Tried the live CD of KDE Neon last night to test the HDR support. Couldn't find a way to enable it. Windows? Just flip a switch...

PlantPowerPhysicist@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 2y (2 replies)

There's an "Enable HDR" checkbox in the "Displays & Monitor" part of System Settings. Of my two monitors, it only shows up in the configuration of the one that supports HDR (makes sense).

ConstantPain@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Didn't show me despite my monitor having support.

Rustmilian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
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sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

If you want windows, you should not use Linux.

ConstantPain@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

👍🏻

Rustmilian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)
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ConstantPain@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Gonna try today. Thanks!