KDE Plasma 6.0.4 Is Out to Improve Plasma Wayland, System Monitor, and More - 9to5Linux
KDE Plasma 6.0.4 is now available as the fourth maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment series fixing more bugs.
My desire to remain in a frozen-release stable distro conflicts with my desire to follow KDE's bleeding edge development
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)
On my work/school machine I run arch but don't update as frequently lol
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.
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.
Anyone notice non-obvious Wayland road blocks?
I think the last thing keeping me on X11 is window shade.
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.
Window shade?
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.
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.
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...
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).
Neither of mine support HDR and I still get the option.
Didn't show me despite my monitor having support.
If you want windows, you should not use Linux.
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man kscreen-doctor
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kscreen-doctor -o
Gonna try today. Thanks!