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KDE Plasma 6.0, and KDE Gear 24.02 released (kde.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Today the KDE Community is announcing a new najor release of Plasma 6.0, and Gear 24.02. KDE Plasma is a modern, feature-rich desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems. Known for its sleek design, customizable interface, and extensive set of applications, it is also open source, devoid of ads, and makes protecting your privacy and personal data a priority.

With Plasma 6, the technology stack has undergone two major upgrades: a transition to the latest version of the application framework, Qt 6, and a migration to the modern Linux graphics platform, Wayland. They will continue providing support for the legacy X11 session for users who prefer to stick with it for now. The new version brings the new windows and desktop overview, improved colour management, a cleaner theme, more effects, better overall performance, and much more.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I like Plasma but the bug where the OS goes to sleep when using a joypad is pretty frustrating. It's an old bug now too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I experienced that too and ended up just disabling the timed sleep mode. Not sure if it's actually related to KDE software or just a Linux bug in general though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Last time I mentioned it someone posted the bug report for it (KDE). It was like 5 years old or something

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Use gamemode

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Oh not just me? amazing lmao

For what it's worth, there're some upcoming wayland protocols that will allow apps to announce their content type (ie. documents, games, media etc.) to the compositor which might finally mean Wayland will consider not going to sleep when a game is running

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah this is really annoying for me as well. I found that if you go into the system tray and click on 'power management' and then tick the box for 'manually block sleep and screen locking' it'll solve the issue. Unfortunately it means that your display won't go dark when the system is idle, so I have to remember to untick that box after I'm done gaming in order to keep that behaviour.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There must be a way to script all that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I made an extremely half-hearted attempt at it at some point, but couldn't immediately find any cli commands to toggle that option so I gave up pretty quickly.