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KDE Plasma 6 Wayland Session: "It's Been Working Great!" (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Being able to restart the Wayland compositor without killing your apps is frickin awesome!!!

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Cool! Maybe I'll switch back to KDE when it releases. I'm currently on GNOME because KDE 5 Wayland crashes on startup, and if I can get it to start, it hangs. Unfortunately, getting my monitors to refresh properly is more important than using KDE.

Looks like it's only a few months away! I'm excited to play with it!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That sounds weird. Did you report this bug? Wayland on KDE 5 is quite stable in my experience.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 1 points 1 year ago

No, maybe I'll try it again, it has been a few months.

Though with the focus being on KDE 6, maybe it's better for me to just try that out instead.

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

Were you using kubuntu? That was happening to me when I was using kubuntu. It doesn't happen now that I'm using neon. Dunno the reason tho.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I will sound really nit-picky buy the biggest thing keeping me away from using KDE is that accent-colored bar on each window in the taskbar, and the different coloring of open/focused/minimized windows. I want it sleek but not cluttery.

I've tried about a dozen themes but I couldn't find any that got rid of that and looked good. I tried fixing it myself but editing svg files was too difficult for me.

I hope plasma 6 adds more options for this but I'm not holding my breath.