An Update on Fedora 36, Plasma 5 and Wayland

Sat, 18 Feb 2023 01:09:29 +0000

KDE Wayland has come a long way support has come a long way since I last wrote about it 8 months ago. Yakuake now shows up in the correct place (although it seems to have a hard time remembering to start up upon login). The lock screen bug hasn’t hit me in the past month. Multi-monitor support is way better now. (And this is without the new update that supposedly makes it even more so solid). Scrolling is still a little screwy in Firefox, but it works perfectly in Vivaldi (my daily driver for quite a few months now).

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Fedora 36, KDE Plasma 5, and Wayland Part 2

Tue, 07 Jun 2022 19:34:03 +0000

After using Plasma with KWayland for about a week, I had to go back to X11 because it’s not yet ready for me. There are 3 main issues I’m having:

Occasionally, when I come back to my computer after locking the screen it would say that the screen locker had crashed. I would need to go to antoher TTY and type in a command to unlock it. After I did that, coming back to the TTY that has the GUI just remains black with a mouse cursor. So I would need to reboot the machine.
Context menus would appear in the wrong place and I actually filed a bug about this one.
I cannot drag and drop video files to upload to YouTube with Firefox. I have to click the button on YT and then navigate to the folder that has the video file. (Not sure if there are other things that can’t be dragged in - photo upload to Flickr, for example)

I’ll keep looking to see if they improve things. But for now I’m staying on X11.

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Plasma-5 on It's a Binary World 2.0

An Update on Fedora 36, Plasma 5 and Wayland

Fedora 36, KDE Plasma 5, and Wayland Part 2