Time for testing, especially for those of you with an NVIDIA GPU as the KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta is now live with some new features. Currently the roadmap shows that KDE Plasma 6.1 will be released as stable on June 18th. So you have a good while to report any unexpected issues from testing.
Here's all the main stuff that's new:
- Triple buffering in KWin for smoother rendering and animations
- Support for the Wayland Explicit Sync protocol, which should improve life for NVIDIA users in particular
- Support for the Input Capture portal
- Remote Desktop system integration to allow RDP clients to connect to Plasma desktops, plus a new page in System Settings for configuring this
- New UX for Plasma's edit mode to make its modality more obvious and visually fancier
- Added a configurable edge barrier between screens, to make it easier to hit UI elements touching the edges between screens. This also allows auto-hide panels on edges between screens to work properly
- Fake session restore on Wayland that at least re-opens apps that were open last time, even if they don't get positioned in the same place. Support for real session restore is still being worked on
- Support for syncing the color of your keyboard's RGB backlight with Plasma's accent color
- Support for using the color profile embedded into the display, for displays that bundle these
- Support in Discover for replacing end-of-support Flatpak apps with their replacements
- Support for the battery conservation mode features on many Lenovo IdeaPad and Legion laptops
- Support for passwordless screen locking, for using it as a screensaver in an environment without security concerns
- You can now middle-click the Power & Battery widget to block and unblock automatic sleep and screen locking, and scroll over it to switch the active power profile
- Slightly rounder corners, and more consistency between corner radius everywhere
- Better window layout algorithm for Overview
- The "Shake cursor to find it" effect has been enabled by default
- New off-by-default effect to hide the mouse pointer after a period of inactivity
- System Settings Keyboard page has been rewritten in QML
Pictured - my current KDE Plasma setup on Kubuntu
Will you be giving the Plasma 6.1 Beta a try soon?
More on the official announcement.
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What actually does the input capture portal actually consist of? Does this mean global keybinds for discord (not via xwayland) will work? Or is this just the groundwork for that? Or is this completely unrelated.
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Linux_Rocks May 24
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CyborgZeta May 24
Right now, I'm leaning towards staying on Kubuntu LTS. I recall hearing that the Kubuntu Team will be backporting a version of Plasma 6 to 24.04 sometime around the end of this year. If so, I may get to try Plasma 6 without needing to upgrade to 24.10. We'll see what happens, I guess.
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TheRiddick May 25
Need better HDR support (for nvidia at least) and DLSS Frame Generation (again from NVIDIA).
Then I can turn off this win10 VM and run some stuff via proton. I don't know when those 2 things will happen, nvidia has hinted at making it so but time will tell.
Then I can turn off this win10 VM and run some stuff via proton. I don't know when those 2 things will happen, nvidia has hinted at making it so but time will tell.
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What actually does the input capture portal actually consist of? Does this mean global keybinds for discord (not via xwayland) will work? Or is this just the groundwork for that? Or is this completely unrelated.
From the merge request:
This is the backend that will be used by the portal to enable
the functionality of the input capture portal.
When the cursor tries to move out of the workarea across a barrier
that the portal registered all input events are filtered out
and forwarded via eis.
Test plan: use together with xdg-desktop-portal-kde!283 (merged) and try with input-leap
So as you guessed it is unrelated to global keybinds. This portal is usefulfull for software KVM like input-leap
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Edgarins29 May 25
When Kubuntu finally adopts KDE Plasma 6.x, that's when I'm switching from Linux Mint.
I don't know whether Plasma 6 is really ready for prime time yet. I've been using it on both Arch and OpenSUSE TW for a couple of months now and it seems to have issues with remembering window positions and sizes. I had to add a window rule to maximize Konsole despite having 'remember window size' checked in the settings, for example.
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I disabled floating mode as if you lock the account and come back you will find the floating bar is always floating now and your firefox is behind it. Other than some minor issues, kde6 is doing well. Well done team.
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Then I can turn off this win10 VM
I used to tinker and try to make HDR work on Linux, when I finally got it, I realised I only have a handful of games with HDR, it wasn't really a big deal at the end. I don't have Nvidia so no frame gen, but is that also something you use a lot to mainly use a VM over Proton for it? Not telling you what to do I just find it interesting since like I said I went through a similar thing.
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TheRiddick May 26
it wasn't really a big deal at the end.
Every game supports HDR, some benefit GREATLY from it and can negate the entire need for reshade or enb profiles when using HDR which does a lot of colour and brightness/exposure balancing itself.
Special-K has very good AutoHDR integration now. Also if you don't have a OLED, I don't know why you'd bother with HDR.
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I don't know whether Plasma 6 is really ready for prime time yet. I've been using it on both Arch and OpenSUSE TW for a couple of months now and it seems to have issues with remembering window positions and sizes. I had to add a window rule to maximize Konsole despite having 'remember window size' checked in the settings, for example.
The biggest issue I'm having is, unless I manually block screen and sleep locking under "power and battery" on my taskbar, or run games with gamemoderun (which in many cases has made my framerate worse on CachyOS), if I play a game with a DualSense, it's as if KDE does not detect any inputs even though the game is detecting my controller inputs through steam, so my computer auto-sleeps itself while a game is open. I'm not the only one with this issue.
Really annoying when I'm trying to play Tekken 8.
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