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KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support

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by mikece

48 minutes ago

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| phoronix.com

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kanbankaren

6 minutes ago

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Wayland has still no way to set DPI of multiple monitors. The fonts look terrible on it. I had to move to KDE Plasma on X11 ever since GNOME started forcing Wayland on us.

I guess I have to buy a 4K monitor in future.

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sapiogram

3 minutes ago

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I thought this problem was Wayland's reason for existing?

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nhumrich

56 seconds ago

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Sure it does. I have that set right now... Fonts looking terrible seems to only be when using an x app on wayland

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jeroenhd

28 minutes ago

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The KDE blog has more details: https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/going-all-in-on-a-wayland-f...

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bigstrat2003

3 minutes ago

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This is a real shame. I'm using X11 still because Discord doesn't work properly with Wayland, and the alternative (Vesktop) doesn't support keybinds when the window isn't focused. Since my distro (Arch) doesn't support holding back packages, I guess I'll have to switch distros entirely so that my Discord setup stays working. :/

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galleywest200

1 minute ago

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I use Discord in-browser on my Arch setup. Seems to work OK.

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panzi

3 minutes ago

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If you ask me it's still too early.

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c-hendricks

20 minutes ago

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TBH I thought they already did. Plasma's X support is a separate package now on Arch at least.

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Gualdrapo

4 minutes ago

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They moved X stuff to separate packages since they added support for Wayland

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account42

28 minutes ago

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Maybe they should get it to work well on Wayland first.

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artisin

25 minutes ago

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As an X11 holdout, my time seems nigh.

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lousken

18 minutes ago

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Devuan should hopefully keep it for quite some time

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theoldgreybeard

14 minutes ago

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The future is now old man.

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panzi

2 minutes ago

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The future seems buggy and incomplete.

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deaddodo

23 minutes ago

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You still have XFCE.

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DonHopkins

20 minutes ago

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You're at a fork in the road. Do you chose Y11 or X12?

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jmclnx

14 minutes ago

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As a fvwm user, if Linux forces Wayland on me, I guess my 30 year use of Linux may be coming to an end. Oh well.

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cupofjoakim

3 minutes ago

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I find your comment a bit funny on multiple levels. "Linux" does not force anything on you right? It's the community that has by and large decided to move to maintaining other solutions. If you still want to use fvwm you can still run it on arch with x11 until x11 is not maintained and the kernel breaks it somehow

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aseipp

2 minutes ago

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For users of older window managers on newer distros where X is likely to be removed "soon-ish" (vs LTS distros), the answer just to use Wayback. It is a different X11 server implementation that uses Wayland under the hood, and is enough to run your WM. There are already people who use it to run AwesomeWM, IceWM, etc: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayback/wayback

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sapiogram

7 minutes ago

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As long as you're willing to stay on some old LTS distro, you'll be fine for at least another 10 years. X isn't going anywhere.

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lousken

25 minutes ago

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Wtf? This was supposed to happen with Plasma 7, or did I miss a memo?

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deaddodo

23 minutes ago

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This is the memo.

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lousken

21 minutes ago

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No https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/plasma-devel/2025-March/12365...

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deaddodo

18 minutes ago

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Notice how that was 6+ months ago, and this newest post is from today?

That’s how memos work.

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lousken

12 minutes ago

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Exactly, so this will create a lot of criticism for no reason. Should have happened with Plasma 7 with QT 7, or at least in the release after next debian freeze (unless they freeze it with v6.7). If the switch will happen early 2027 that means upcoming Debian will already be wayland only.