My desire to remain in a frozen-release stable distro conflicts with my desire to follow KDE's bleeding edge development
this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2024
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Yea the hype train is real on that one :)
I solve that the following way:
On my private machine, I use arch with the newest features.
Work related I am using debian testing on the laptop. The packages are not the newest but I know everything is stable and upades are not in my way. (KDE 6 will arrive there late summer)
On my work/school machine I run arch but don't update as frequently lol
Have you heard of KDE Neon? Wikipedia says:
KDE neon is a Linux distribution developed by KDE based on Ubuntu long-term support (LTS) releases, bundled with a set of additional software repositories containing the latest versions of the Plasma 6 desktop environment/framework, Qt 6 toolkit and other compatible KDE software.
I would not recommend KDE Neon. Qt applications (like Calibre) sometimes have problems because they're taken from Ubuntu(?) repos but Neon ships their own Qt libs which can cause conflicts.
Anyone notice non-obvious Wayland road blocks?
I think the last thing keeping me on X11 is window shade.
Mine is that the "fake session restore" hasn't landed yet (it will in 6.1) so the half-dozen konsole and dolphin windows I tend to leave open between reboots don't re-open after rebooting under Wayland.
The reason it's called "fake session restore" is that the Wayland session restore protocol isn't finalized, so as a temporary workaround Plasma on Wayland will re-launch the applications and leave it up to the individual programs to restore their last state.
Window shade?
As described at https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kwin/kcontrol/windowbehaviour/index.html#titlebar-actions
Shade
Causes the window to be reduced to simply the titlebar.
Found the option, and you're right. It's currently not available on Wayland.
For some reason when i use Wayland it shows weird artifacts on the bottom of my screen. Doesn't happen on X11 so I'll stick with that until it gets fixed
What's your GPU?
Asrock 6900 XT OC
Definitely needs a bug report.
I recommend go into Wayland and use hw-probe and run :
sudo -E hw-probe -all -upload -dump-acpi -decode-acpi
And use the given link in your BR.
Try to force the bug, and take a screenshot or if it doesn't show up in the screenshot take a picture with your phone and mention it doesn't show up in screenshots.
If you're able to consistently reproduce the bug include how.
Make the BR to Kwin.
Yeah, ill do that. Seems to only be when scale is set to 150/175, setting to 200% fixed it it seems!
Not really. I was a heavy critic of the state kde was in because of fractional scalling sucking a lot, but I've been using it on 2 pcs and am now pretty happy. Does everything I need it to.
Tried the live CD of KDE Neon last night to test the HDR support. Couldn't find a way to enable it. Windows? Just flip a switch...
There's an "Enable HDR" checkbox in the "Displays & Monitor" part of System Settings. Of my two monitors, it only shows up in the configuration of the one that supports HDR (makes sense).
Didn't show me despite my monitor having support.
Neither of mine support HDR and I still get the option.
If you want windows, you should not use Linux.
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man kscreen-doctor
kscreen-doctor -o
Gonna try today. Thanks!