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

Post by prophesi » Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 4:52 PM UTC

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote: post #55

ch_123 wrote: post #47

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> Discord doesn't work properly with Wayland Is this specifically to do with screen sharing or streaming? I use it purely as a chat client under Wayland and it has generally worked fine. (Now that I think of it, I've had a few weird crashes, but nothing which made it unusable)

> a few weird crashes To OP's point, assuming it's limited to Wayland, this seems reasonable to call out as "doesn't work properly".

Post by electroly » Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 4:52 PM UTC

kanbankaren wrote: post #56

kronicum2025 wrote: post #48

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You can. KDE Wayland allows you to even set fractional scaling. I had 125% on one monitor and 100% on three others. all work like a chgarm

How did you arrive at 125%? What is the formula? Just eyeballing? I set DPI so that a 15pt font occupies 15pt physical space on screen. Not sure how to set DPI using fractional scaling.

Post by atherton94027 » Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 4:53 PM UTC

voidfunc wrote: post #60

ferguess_k wrote: post #52

I live in a cave and am not a system programmer -- what's so wrong with X11 so people need to replace it with something else instead of improving it? Or, what's so wrong with anything so people need to replace it with something else instead of improving it? Let's say I'm an old man favoring improving existing stuffs instead of starting from scratch. I like debugging and wish to work as a sys programmer specialized in…

OSS is an intersection of commercial and hobbyist programmers and agendas. If youre a hobbyist you may prefer to spend time working on green field rather than the existing. This eventually culminates in some new stuff replacing the old. Not saying that is what happened here, but sometimes the answer is because the old one is just not fun to work on anymore.

Post by Pet_Ant » Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 4:54 PM UTC

gary_0 wrote: post #61

ferguess_k wrote: post #52

I live in a cave and am not a system programmer -- what's so wrong with X11 so people need to replace it with something else instead of improving it? Or, what's so wrong with anything so people need to replace it with something else instead of improving it? Let's say I'm an old man favoring improving existing stuffs instead of starting from scratch. I like debugging and wish to work as a sys programmer specialized in…

> what's so wrong with X11 so people need to replace it 1. Security - Any program using X11 can read keystrokes, passwords, or the contents of any other window. Fixing this would break all existing X11 applications. 2. Performance - X11's client-server model doesn't work with hardware accelerated graphics, requiring hacks to get around. X11 is basically stuck with this legacy. The ground-up re-design of X11 to fix th…

Post by MyOutfitIsVague » Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 4:56 PM UTC

aidenn0 wrote: post #51

Wayland is missing one thing still for me. Perhaps someone can tell me there is a way to do this: 1. ssh into a machine with a running session 2. start (something) that lets me remotely connect to it Right now I have two working solutions for X11 (x11vnc, freerdp-shadow) but zero for Wayland. I think this is intentional because the venn diagram of remote-access-tools and malware has a large intersection, but it's ver…