I can only hope plasma6 has serious improvements on Wayland compatibility with nvidia drivers because plasma5 is unusable.
Yes, I know it works on your machine. It doesn't work on mine :P
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This is Nvidia fault, no?
Ye but people don't want to accept that the company charging $5000 for a GPU is also too stubborn and lazy to pay any devs to write decent drivers
Nvidia's latest driver patched several issues with Wayland sessions - perhaps the experience will be a tiny bit better now
I had a quick go at it yesterday (the latest 535 broke DDC CI for one of my monitors, making plasma-powerdevil unable to start) and for whatever reason KWin ran at something like 3 seconds per frame. No that's not a typo, I mean it. I hope it's fixed before it gets to Arch's repo.
EDIT: It works! I had to switch to the DKMS driver (the main one isn't in the repos yet) but other than that my Wayland session didn't die a horrible death. Well smooth. I still didn't test much, but at least night light works.
Waiting for the driver to reach the repos to try it out. I am hopefull in an Hyprland future! You know, some day!
Completely agree. I keep trying to open a new session on a clean new user regularly to check if it works and it is absolutely horrible. 3 days ago after updating the system and seeing some new latest kde versions coming in, tried again and noped the out of it in a few minutes. The fonts and scalling in so many places are very bad.
I keep reading about great improvements in the 6 version and am really hopeful for it to be usable.
Or the problem is just that no developers have normal regular laptops that are 14'' at 1080p and can't imagine that proper scaling at 125% and 150% needs to work out of the box.
Edit: I don't even have nvidia hardware, it's just regular intel stuff. Can't imagine the struggle of nvidia folks.
The other half of the developers have 13" 2160p displays that are sharp either way – but don't notice the battery life hit.
Iirc there's ongoing work for proper fractional scaling protocol, so it might get fixed for KDE/QT applications at some point.
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Completely agree, as an NVIDIA user (for now) I am screwed if I am required to use Wayland. I mean, I use Wayland for a long time and it works well with NVIDIA but there are many things that don’t quite work, like many emulators (Yuzu/RPCS3) that for some reason have a strange tearing, or some programs that simply won't open in xWayland.
I'm hoping this project will be ready enough in time to pair with it https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/introducing-nvk.html
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I’m really looking forward to Plasma6. I know gnome has its fans but I am really just a reluctant user. Every day gnome works against me and I have to resort to workarounds.
Do I want to navigate, inspect, and manipulate my files quickly? I use dolphin.
Do I want to have a convenient panel to get a very quick glance of my currently running programs as well as a place to pin my most commonly used ones? That’s an extension.
Do I want sub-windows to always block their parent window, preventing me from interacting with the parent further? No solution.
Do I want desktop icons? Do I want excessive notifications from common tasks my computer is doing instead of from my own programs?
I have more complaints but I think I am making myself clear. Overall I do like gnome and it has good performance, but there are so many annoying aspects. KDE is itself not perfect. There’s enough reasons for me to continue using gnome over kde5. But that’s why I hold out hope for plasma 6.
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The future is here old man
I just want kde on Wayland not to have blury font with fractional scaling. It's just unusable. Once that's fixed, I'm all set to use it as my daily driver.
Fixed. Not backported since it requires a QT update. Fix is coming with Plasma 6. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446674
Nice
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I have fractional scaling on current plasma wayland and don't have blurry font. Is this a specific usecase?
Just your regular 27" 4k monitor. If I set it to 200%, everything is fine, but things are huge. I have to have it on 175%, and that makes the font very blurry. Also, any window decorations that are not default plasma get blurry, too. I've already posted about it in the kde instance and zamunda (a KDE dev) said it was fixed in plasma 6. So, I guess I'll just wait it out.
I think you have to login and logout... For me it worked
Oh trust me, I do log out then log in, it just doesn't work. I'll try again to double check.
Perhaps it'll start working with Wayland in 6.1 then ;)
I can feel all the X11 fanboys crying lol
I don't think anyone is an X11 fan boy. We all know Wayland is the future. I would be using it if it worked on my machine.
Try Phoronix
A bunch of old fucks jerking themselves off to a half functional workflow they've had since 1987
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Plans were drafted in September to offer KDE Plasma 6 in Fedora 40.
All of these releases should take place at the end of February to inaugurate the Plasma 6.0 desktop.
Fedora 40 meanwhile should be out by the end of April and the Fedora KDE spin or those otherwise manually installing the KDE desktop will thus be able to enjoy the fresh Plasma 6 experience.
Well, the FESCo members have signed off on the Plasma 6.0 plan and the X11 support removal is still included.
FESCo members voted in this ticket to approve the Plasma 6.0 change proposal for Fedora 40.
Separately being pursued as well for Fedora 40 is removing the GNOME X11 session support.
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I really want to use wayland - and even though maybe I shouldn't I still do on my laptop - but man... on Plasma 5 that thing is borked. And I'm not even running on NVIDIA.
Whenever the system wakes up from sleep or an external display reconnects all open windows are gone and the system enters a weird state which forces me to reboot. How was "all windows are lost when the compositor crashes" not something fixed in the early days, is beyond me. That must make even developing for Wayland unnecessarily difficult/annoying.
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