Initial thoughts on KDE/Plasma 6 with Wayland
by Patrick O'Callaghan
I installed F40 a couple of days ago, using the distro-upgrade path. It
went smoothly with no installation issues. I'm on an Intel board with
an AMD GPU.
All in all, the user experience seems smoother (faster) than the
previous version wih X11. However there are two things that bother me.
They may or may not be related:
1) As noted before, session save/restore does not work. This is pretty
much expected, if disappointing. I hope the workaround is fixed soon as
it's a significant impediment for me. For some reason, Firefox with
multiple windows *does* start correctly, but nothing else does (neither
KDE apps nor Evolution, which is GTK-based).
2) Resuming after hibernation works only partially. Most things are
recovered (including Evolution), but among those I use Konsole and
Dolphin simply don't. They just aren't there when I resume and have to
be started manually. Interestingly, I tried using Gnome and starting
both of these apps in the Gnome environment, and they both *do* restore
correctly after hibernation.
In all cases I'm using SDDM as desktop manager.
I've no explanation for why this is happening.
poc
1 day, 2 hours
Plasma crashes
by Mark ＠ GMail
Is just me getting Plasma problems since recent updates?
I apply Fedora updates once a week and since last week I'm getting
frequent (only something like once a day) problems.
I've had a couple of total hangs, I think these were linked to viewing
a website that has a particularly active js header in FireFox, though
to be fair that might be 'cos it turned out I also had 90 other tabs
open.
Other than that I seem to get a "race condition", my auto-hiding
control bar sometimes shows a flickering tooltip, nothing seems to fix
that other than closing the session (log off or reboot). I've just had
a screen corruption, the right hand side (15%?) got a portion of some
other page fixed on it, changing virtual desktop fixed that.
This is new since last week.
Mark
F39, X11.
3 days, 6 hours
Kaddressbook empty after upgrade F39-40
by Frank Bures
The subject says it all.
How do I populate the Kaddressbook with data that was there in F39?
So far my search for info yielded nothing.
Thanks
Frank
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4 days, 21 hours
Fedora 40, KDE session would not start after login
by Frank Bures
Hi,
After upgrade from F39 to F40 I cannot normally log in.
When I enter my login and passwd a black screen appears for a second and I
am back in the login screen.
When I switch to CLI, log in there and do "startplasma-wayland", the KDE
desktop appears normally.
System is operational, but this behaviour is annoying. Any ideas how to
solve the problem would be appreciated.
Thanks
Frank
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5 days, 1 hour
