[opensuse-factory] Some new Plasma desktop features
Hi, Plasma users might already have noticed two new features: - The updater applet works for Tumbleweed now While the change to switch libzypp into "dup mode" on Tumbleweed landed a while ago, it needed some time to mature and the applet also did not handle EULA prompts. The latter is now fixed, which means that you can simply click on "Install updates" when the popup appears and end up on a new snapshot! Big disclaimer: PackageKit for dupdating TW snapshots is not openQA tested, use at your own risk. Also, installation of updates while using the desktop might result in some issues, like applications behaving weirdly as files are swapped out underneath them. Note that Discover uses PackageKit as well, so you can use it for updating your TW systems too. With the right backends installed, it also handles updates of Flatpak applications and system firmware. There is no full applet though. - New "Full Wayland" session option for Plasma If you use the "Plasma (Wayland)" option to start the session, many applications are talking over X11 to Xwayland instead of to the Wayland compositor directly. While this works around bugs and missing features, it also means that some advantages of Wayland are not accessible. By simply selecting "Plasma (Full Wayland)", GTK and Qt applications use their native Wayland backends. In the future, when the most severe GTK and qtwayland bugs are fixed, this will become the default mode of "Plasma (Wayland)". And btw, the Beta for Plasma 5.17 will be out soon. If you want to help testing you can then grab it from KDE:Frameworks5 as usual or use one of the Live isos. Have a lot of fun, Fabian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On 19-Sep-2019, at 20:27, Fabian Vogt <fvogt@suse.de> wrote:
Hi,
Plasma users might already have noticed two new features:
- The updater applet works for Tumbleweed now
I have already started using this is feaure. This is great
- New "Full Wayland" session option for Plasma
If you use the "Plasma (Wayland)" option to start the session, many applications are talking over X11 to Xwayland instead of to the Wayland compositor directly. While this works around bugs and missing features, it also means that some advantages of Wayland are not accessible. By simply selecting "Plasma (Full Wayland)", GTK and Qt applications use their native Wayland backends.
I tried this and it just hangs and I was unable to even use CTRL-ALT-F1, etc. I had to do ssh and reboot the machine to get access and reboot the machine. I will take a look at the logs tomorrow. The second I tried, I got the session, but the response was extremely sluggish. I wanted to execute terminal and execute the top program, but I the kconsole just wasn’t getting invoked. So I have reverted back to the plasma session. But if anyone has tried this and it is working, it will be good to know.-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
четвер, 19 вересня 2019 р. 17:57:01 EEST Fabian Vogt написано:
Hi, ... - New "Full Wayland" session option for Plasma
If you use the "Plasma (Wayland)" option to start the session, many applications are talking over X11 to Xwayland instead of to the Wayland compositor directly. While this works around bugs and missing features, it also means that some advantages of Wayland are not accessible. By simply selecting "Plasma (Full Wayland)", GTK and Qt applications use their native Wayland backends.
So if I'm already have ~/.config/plasma-workspace/env/wayland.sh with: ``` if [ "x$XDG_SESSION_TYPE" = "xwayland" ]; then export QT_QPA_PLATFORM='wayland' fi ``` this wouldn't make any difference, or would it? But for wayland still have no features - no selection buffer, button menu in window title bar wasn't working correctly, so still using X. I'll check it again, maybe now it's better, though selection buffer wasn't implemented due to security reasons, so I'm unsure it would be there. -- Kind regards, Mykola Krachkovsky -- Найкращі побажання, Микола Крачковський
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Fabian Vogt
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Manvendra Bhangui
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Mykola Krachkovsky