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[-] shadowintheday2@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months ago

For those who use Wayland and autostart, don't forget to edit

/etc/sddm.conf.d/kde_settings.conf

from KDE5: Session=plasmawayland

to Plasma6: Session=plasma

to confirm the exact name, check what is available under /usr/share/wayland-sessions/

if you're stuck, try pacman -Q | grep -i kde and pacman -Q | grep -i plasma and remove everything related, then fresh install plasma-meta or plasma group and it should work

[-] Hominine@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Thanks for the heads-up!

[-] 1984 18 points 3 months ago

Installed and donated 50 dollars. Anyone else donated?

[-] TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

Where did you place the donation?

[-] 1984 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

After install there was a window saying it's plasma 6 now and it was linking to the donation web page:

https://kde.org/community/donations/

Such a polished release. Seems to run smoother and faster.

The hdr support really is making games and movies look superb also.

[-] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Do you know what games support HDR? I am itching to finally try this out.

[-] 1984 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don't but for me the monitor supported hdr appearently, which was a bit of a surprise.

When I clicked that button, all colors really stood out. Havent seen Linux look that good before. It's tiring for the eyes when doing ordinary work but nice when gaming.

[-] shadowintheday2@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

For those who use Wayland, don't forget to edit

/etc/sddm.conf.d/kde_settings.conf

from KDE5: Session=plasmawayland

to Plasma6: Session=plasma

to confirm the exact name, check what is available under /usr/share/wayland-sessions/

if you're stuck, try pacman -Q | grep -i kde and pacman -Q | grep -i plasma and remove everything related + remove orphans , then fresh install plasma-meta or plasma group and it should work

[-] EddyBot@feddit.de 11 points 3 months ago

they waited until the first minor version which fixed already some bugs as expected
pretty nice release

[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago

Just finished the update, went surprisingly smoothly for me! I had to reconnect the wifi and it's caused a few minor theme/widget issues (which I was fully expecting) but overall I was basically fully back to running normally in like half an hour or so.

It actually resolved a couple of minor theme issues somehow too, so that's a bonus!

[-] Comradesexual@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Bit messy for me. I had to hunt down installed plugins etc because they neither worked nor showed up in the menus anymore. I like the improvements a lot though. :)

[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah I think I got pretty lucky with this one! My system is fairly customized so I was expecting a lot more trouble tbh

[-] Malix@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 months ago

got to say, the update went smoothly and didn't need to touch any configs.

Feels quite a bit smoother than the KDE 5 on this aging hardware (i5-2320, igpu, 16GB ram, sata ssd). <3

I can now even "alt-tab" backwards with shift! That just didn't work previously!

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

Oh weird I googled it and I thought it was canceled /s

[-] Comradesexual@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Autologin doesn't work and energy saving settings tab results in settings crashing. I cannot even find if it's known because search engines suck. :/

Edit:

The above fix to /etc/sddm.conf.d/kde_settings.conf fixed my issue.

[-] fossphi@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

Were you using SDDM for auto login? And wayland or X11?

[-] toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nl 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I have the same problem, and I'm using SDDM. My autologin.conf got deleted, so I figured it was a matter of restoring that, but no dice so far.

Edit: Ah, never mind. I forgot that autorun.conf is replaced by this kde-settings file there. Changed plasmawayland to plasma, there, and it started working.

[-] Comradesexual@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Idk what I was using, I was using System Settings.

Wayland.

[-] ComradeEd@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Demoncracy is a KDE and linux user?! Cool.

[-] LemmyHead@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

I'm scared it will break something if I update

[-] Tiuku@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 months ago

You always have to be prepared for that. This is Arch.

[-] LemmyHead@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago
[-] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

Not using KDE right now; but I'm happy to see that there's finally an official Breeze theme for Qt6 apps.

[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 4 points 3 months ago

My only complaint so far is my fonts are all messed up because they removed the "Force DPI" setting completely but I managed to make it good enough by just making the fonts bigger. The UI doesn't scale with it, but at least it works and it's sharp.

I tried scaling at 120% and 125% and the sizing is good but the fonts are super blurry to the point it's more readable at 100% with no other changes, same as it's always been really.

[-] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Lots of small but annoying issues here. Nothing that really makes my desktop unusable, but hunting down plasma settings was not how I imagined spending my evening. So far not too impressed...

[-] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago
[-] hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

Judging from all the comments here,it's better to wait a couple of days,or wait for 6.0.1 (but that would be too long for me).

I want plasma 6 goodness,but patience is a virtue.

[-] Malix@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 months ago

or wait for 6.0.1

Kinda looks like that already happened https://archlinux.org/groups/x86_64/plasma/ - basically everything is version 6.0.1

[-] hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

Not surprised. Thanks. Upgrading...

[-] xhenon@lemmy.world -2 points 3 months ago

Another adventurer that updated to plasma 6 and the worst thing I noticed is the performance, this new plasma 6 is worst than version 5 on this aspect by now. I hope with the time it been solved

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