KDE Plasma 5.23 Will Be Another Exciting Release With Many Improvements Abound

[RomuloP]

Running KDE with 3 displays (2x24" 1440p+32" 4k) was a pain. KWin didn't respect layout set in KDE settings and in X11 at all. I haven't tried if things become better with Wayland though.
GNOME is better with such setup even if it places windows outside of view port, funny enough all wrongly placed windows are pure GNOME's apps

I have a 4k 21" monitor plus a 21" full HD ultrawide, you will need to play a bit with xorg.conf and sddm config files but after done it gets to be respected pretty well. What surprises me is that the final result gets to be much better than what Windows can do with setups involving fractional differences.

[Daktyl198]

Does the Wayland-session not have this?

No, it doesn’t. And it’s quite unfortunate because it’s clear that KWin kind of expects a “primary” monitor but there’s no way to set one in the Wayland session.

[reba]

Plasma gives me the almost perfect desktop, even under Wayland right now except for one glaring issue: there's no way to tell apps what monitor to open on. Even trying to use window rules in the settings fails. Everything opens on my left monitor, and not my right (main) one. This is especially frustrating with krunner (since I have to turn my head every time I search something) and games, since fullscreen windows that grab your cursor are a pain in the ass to move to the correct monitor. One game kept moving back to the left monitor 5 minutes into playing and I had to give up on it.

Please, please, please KDE team, return the idea of a "main" monitor to Wayland somehow

You mean that?



Granted, this was from my X11-session as I am currently in the middle of something and could not switch over.

Does the Wayland-session not have this?

[Daktyl198]

Plasma gives me the almost perfect desktop, even under Wayland right now except for one glaring issue: there's no way to tell apps what monitor to open on. Even trying to use window rules in the settings fails. Everything opens on my left monitor, and not my right (main) one. This is especially frustrating with krunner (since I have to turn my head every time I search something) and games, since fullscreen windows that grab your cursor are a pain in the ass to move to the correct monitor. One game kept moving back to the left monitor 5 minutes into playing and I had to give up on it.

Please, please, please KDE team, return the idea of a "main" monitor to Wayland somehow.

Everytime a new release comes out I check Kwin wayland if chromium launches and looks right under HiDPI, if video acceleration works and if smplayer renders correctly without creating a separate window
I switch back to X pretty quickly

Have you tried KWinFT yet? I'm about to, and since it uses wlroots for some Wayland related things I'm expecting it to work a lot better on Wayland than normal KWin does.

[luizluca]

Nate missed my 5.23 favorite feature: middle click buffer sync between Wayland and Xwayland. It is a must have fix for anyone using chrome and konsole in a ice Wayland session. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422426

Edit: he didn't. It was last week news.

[FireBurn]

Everytime a new release comes out I check Kwin wayland if chromium launches and looks right under HiDPI, if video acceleration works and if smplayer renders correctly without creating a separate window
I switch back to X pretty quickly

[aufkrawall]

Nothing to report.

Thanks for the info though!

[blacknova]

Which version of PLASMA?

5.22, latest Fedora's build in 34's repos.

[Anvil]

Amazing to hear!

I wonder when is Breeze or Oxygen going to support Qt 6.

ny guess after QT6.2 LTS

[Azrael5]

Running KDE with 3 displays (2x24" 1440p+32" 4k) was a pain. KWin didn't respect layout set in KDE settings and in X11 at all. I haven't tried if things become better with Wayland though.
GNOME is better with such setup even if it places windows outside of view port, funny enough all wrongly placed windows are pure GNOME's apps

Which version of PLASMA?