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The dust is starting to settle now the huge KDE Plasma 6 release is out in the wild, with it beginning to land for more distributions but there's been some issues. Thankfully, the release wasn't anywhere near as troublesome as KDE Plasma 4, which I'm sure some readers have memories of.

Firstly, for people using KDE neon, it looks like they had some problems. As mentioned in a news post, the developers of KDE neon apologised for packaging problems in the "User Edition", with more fixes coming as they continue putting out the fires of the new release.

Plasma 6 has also now landed for Arch Linux, so if you run updates you should see it available. Arch is a rolling distro, so it's no big surprise to see it be one of the first to fully roll it out. Much like the KDE neon update, you can expect some issues here and there while things become a bit more tested.

Pictured - KDE Plasma 6

Also, the first Plasma 6 point release is out with Plasma 6.0.1. It's only a small one but with some necessary bug fixes.

Development on Plasma 6.1 is already heating up too. As Nate Graham has been blogging about recently like the addition of a new KWin effect called Hide Cursor, that allows you to automatically hide the cursor after a certain period. Plus an option to allow XWayland apps to eavesdrop on mouse buttons, various UI improvements are coming too like the newer Cube effect not working with fewer than 3 virtual desktops actually now telling you why and prompting you to add more. A previous blog post also highlighted a big fun new feature for Plasma 6.1 with a "fake" session restore (while they wait for the Wayland protocol to be finalised) that re-opens apps you had at the last logout, so all apps should properly re-launch on login and this works on X11 too.

Have you been testing out Plasma 6? What do you think? Let me know in the comments.

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I have been waiting for this! I had decided finally give Wayland a try last year and then I learned KDE would it make it default in Plasma 6, so I decided to wait a little. Can't wait to try it out.
WorMzy Mar 7
Installed it yesterday, update went smoothly thanks to the impeccable work by arojas. No issues so far, aside from having to tell the task bar not to float (seems to be the new default). Other than a couple of QoL improvements, I can't really tell the difference between plasma 5 and plasma 6.
Does anyone else have issues with qbittorrent working on Plasma 6, Arch Linux?

It doesn't open for me unless I open it from a magnet link or a torrent file.
Sojiro84 Mar 7
Quoting: sobinsirilDoes anyone else have issues with qbittorrent working on Plasma 6, Arch Linux?

It doesn't open for me unless I open it from a magnet link or a torrent file.

Worked fine for me after the upgrade. I did have a version of qBittorrent installed that worked with Qt5 since the official version looked bad on Plasma 5 but now with Plasma 6, I installed the normal version of qBittorrent which looks good now on Plasma 6.
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Everything seems to be working on arch.
I'm really surprised to see it so quickly. It usually takes months for the new GNOME release to land in Arch. It's been what, a little over a week?

Chromium is now really buggy for some reason. It flickers all the time. And the Qt theme is broken. I was already using the Wayland session, so it's strange to see regressions like this. I use Firefox 95% of the time anyway and it works fine, so it's no big deal.

The Steam client was already a flickering mess before the upgrade, but now the icons are in completely the wrong place on the Downloads page.

My single-click to open files in Dolphin was changed to double-click for some reason, so I changed it back.

There's now a bug in the Overview effect where if you have two rows of virtual desktops, it won't display the row of virtual desktops at the top. It worked fine in Plasma 5. I've set it back to one row of virtual desktops for now. The overview effect is an improvement otherwise.

Signal Desktop now takes a long time to load up or doesn't load up at all unless started from the terminal. On the other hand, Thunderbird now starts up when launched and I no longer need to launch it from the terminal!

I hope the annoying bug where resuming from suspend would shuffle my primary monitor to my second monitor is fixed now.

Overall, not too disruptive.

Quoting: sobinsirilDoes anyone else have issues with qbittorrent working on Plasma 6, Arch Linux?

It doesn't open for me unless I open it from a magnet link or a torrent file.
Works for me.
Quoting: sobinsirilDoes anyone else have issues with qbittorrent working on Plasma 6, Arch Linux?

It doesn't open for me unless I open it from a magnet link or a torrent file.
Well I found someone with the same issue.
Apparently it had to do with the "Hidden on Startup Option". Doesn't matter anymore because I decided to give KTorrent a try and I kinda like it :)
nvidia_modeset.hdmi_deepcolor=1 in kernel boot options if you want to try HDR out on NVIDIA. Seems to work on my 4090 so far. You can enable it without that setting but chaos happens after next login in my testing.

Yet to see what's required for steam and proton to see hdr. Maybe needs gamescope I dunno.
QDS Mar 7
I upgraded last night, instantly had my wayland session crashing over and over... Turns out if I used my second Nvidia GPU running on open source drivers along with my AMD one it just caused the entire thing to crash (thankfully it reopened automatically). Stopped using my second card and it seems stable, hoping it gets patched in the next release but otherwise it's been pretty impressive.
Tried on Nobara and upgraded wonderfully! Impatiently awaiting upgrade on Manjaro now that Arch updated.
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