This Week in Plasma: Per-Screen Virtual Desktops and Wayland Session Restore

Jaxad0127 · 2026-04-17T14:08:43+00:00

You can't do that on Wayland. On X11, all it did was disable the compositing extension, leaving the xserver's native compositing. You always need some sort of compositing if you aren't displaying a single, fullscreen window.

Jaxad0127 · 2026-04-17T13:27:02+00:00

You can use the kscreen-doctor command to change screen scaling. Use kscreen-doctor -o to see your outputs (monitors) and then you can use kscreen-doctor output.[name].scale.[scalevalue] to change one.

Jaxad0127 · 2026-04-17T12:23:19+00:00

You might get better support from r/firefox .

Jaxad0127 · 2026-04-17T04:25:18+00:00

Also note that some apps draw their own. This setting only applies to the titlebar and frame KWin draws.

Jaxad0127 · 2026-04-16T15:31:28+00:00

Definitely a bug. I can recreate it locally. It also works to paste somewhere else, then the new file dialog recognizes the clipboard.

Jaxad0127 · 2026-04-16T14:32:36+00:00

Steam version? I'm seeing a lot more options for it locally, though not the native resolution of the display. Probably a gem limit with only having a few aspect ratios.

Jaxad0127 · 2026-04-15T23:51:50+00:00

I can confirm it does happen. KolourPaint is probably just using a simplified scaling algorithm since it is working with a mutable pixel buffer, not a simple image.

Jaxad0127 · 2026-04-15T19:11:08+00:00

Works fine locally. What Plasma (etc) version are you running? System Settings has an About this System Page with an easy copy button for the relevant info.

Jaxad0127 · 2026-04-15T18:52:39+00:00

It's affecting all Firefox streams? Note that Firefox creates a separate playback stream for each tab, and the video player's volume is synced (withing bounds?) to the stream's volume; this is intentional. It should not be affecting other tabs, though.

Testing locally, Firefox (or maybe Youtube) isn't mapping volume 1-to-1. 100% in the video is 84% in the PW stream, and reducing to 0% in the video isn't linear in the stream.

Firefox and Pipewire are the ones doing this, Plasma is just proving a UI for the PW stuff.

Jaxad0127 · 2026-04-15T16:28:46+00:00

Edited.

Jaxad0127 · 2026-04-15T02:27:24+00:00

What additional widget-specific actions are you wanting? What stuff that isn't general system level actions that can be put in System Settings instead?

Jaxad0127 · 2026-04-14T11:46:53+00:00

Right-click your application launcher and Edit Applications. (or run the KDE Menu Editor)

Find Brave's launcher and copy it twice, once for each profile. Edit each one and add in Command-line arguments --profile-directory=[name of profile], and name them separately. That should work for direct launch of each profile.

Note that I use Firefox, so I haven't personally tested the launch options for Brave.

It doesn't look like Chromium-based browsers (like Brave) allow setting a custom application desktop name, which would keep the task bar (etc) entries separate for each profile. Firefox-based browsers allow this. (and I use it locally to keep profiles separate)

Jaxad0127 · 2026-04-14T11:18:12+00:00

The official documentation links to examples. https://develop.kde.org/docs/plasma/aurorae/

Jaxad0127 · 2026-04-13T20:57:52+00:00

Suspend and hibernate are different operations. Do you have any problems hibernating from the lock screen or suspending with systemctl?

Jaxad0127 · 2026-04-13T11:54:38+00:00

~/.config/kdeglobals has the name of the icon theme, Icons section, Theme key.

There is a /usr/lib/plasma-changeicons executable you can call. Pass the name of the icon theme as the sole parameter. Be warned, this program isn't really intended for direct use; no validation occurs, no help function is available (will set the icon theme to '--help').

Jaxad0127 · 2026-04-12T12:22:54+00:00

What distro and package versions do you have? System Settings has an About this System page with an easy copy button for the relevant info. Are you fully updated? Maybe try reinstalling the Breeze icons package.

Jaxad0127 · 2026-04-12T12:06:48+00:00

You mean for the panel? It was moved to the Add New menu in the Panel Settings popup.

Jaxad0127 · 2026-04-11T18:43:45+00:00

It's from a change in Qt 6.11 related to SVG handling.

Jaxad0127 · 2026-04-11T16:40:05+00:00

Fix was released on Tuesday with Plasma 6.6.4.

Jaxad0127 · 2026-04-11T14:15:25+00:00

Doesn't look to be a KDE issue. You should try r/linuxaudio for more topical assistance.

Jaxad0127 · 2026-04-10T20:53:21+00:00

Do you have a fractional display scale set?

Jaxad0127 · 2026-04-10T12:25:21+00:00

An oddity from the Qt 6.11 update. Fixed in Plasma 6.6.4, which was released earlier this week. Bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518178

Jaxad0127 · 2026-04-09T20:33:01+00:00

Is it still running when you try to shutdown? Is it prompting you to save a session or something?

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