Plasma 5.23 Picking Up Latest Breeze Evolution Style, SDDM Lands Native Wayland Support

[grigi]

Plasma 5.22.1 with Wayland will now detect additional screens when using a multi-GPU setup.

Yesssss!

[kiffmet]

I'll just leave this here for people who would like a good single-monitor highdpi experience on Plasma w/ Wayland. You'll need two scripts. The first one sets the DPI for Xwayland - replace 123 with your monitor's DPI, make the script executable and add it to your autostart as a program:

#!/bin/bash
[ "$XDG_SESSION_TYPE" == "wayland" ]  && echo "Xft.dpi: 123" | xrdb -merge - ;

The second one sets up QT and GTK scaling under Wayland. Save it under ~/.config/plasma-workspace/env/dpi.sh and make it executable. Again, replace 123 with your monitor's DPI. GTK_DPI_SCALE is calculated the following: realDPI/96:

[COLOR=#000000]#!/bin/bash [/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][ "$XDG_SESSION_TYPE" == "wayland" ]  && export QT_WAYLAND_FORCE_DPI=123 && export GDK_DPI_SCALE=1.28125[/COLOR]

You can omit the last && and move the GDK_DPI_SCALE declaration into a new line if you also want it to get set under Xorg:

[COLOR=#000000]#!/bin/bash [/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][ "$XDG_SESSION_TYPE" == "wayland" ]  && export QT_WAYLAND_FORCE_DPI=123
export GDK_DPI_SCALE=1.28125[/COLOR]

By setting DPI like this, you also work around all QT bugs related to fractional scaling!

[aufkrawall]

Just like the rootless Xorg support was, another big item crossed off a list. Wayland support has got so much better, I think we can be really confident about its state in the foreseeable future (as long as hopefully no dev jumps off the ship).

Fiiiinallly. SDDM on Wayland is long overdue.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Plasma 5.23 Picking Up Latest Breeze Evolution Style, SDDM Lands Native Wayland Support

KDE developers didn't spend much time basking over their Plasma 5.22 release this week as they have already begun lining up changes for the first point release, new feature work for Plasma 5.23, and other improvements to this open-source desktop environment...

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