Plasma/Wayland Known Significant Issues

This page tracks the Wayland showstoppers throughout the stack. Showstoppers are major bugs, crashes, or missing features affecting the Wayland session but not the X11 session. This is part of KDE's Wayland goal.

Clipboard management

• When "Prevent empty clipboard" is enabled, Plasma sometimes fails to paste text copied from XWayland apps: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424754
• When "Prevent empty clipboard" is disabled, text copied from a GTK app makes it into Klipper, but cannot be pasted after the GTK app quits: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424649
• Can't copy text from notifications: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434675 (very annoying for text messages with a long code you need to enter into a website for 2-factor authentication purposes)
• Selected text in Firefox (wayland native mode) cannot be middle-click-pasted into other apps: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440703

Login/Session management

• Session restoring does not include Wayland native windows: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436318. Our sessions management recover engine is based on the X Session Management Protocol and there is apparently currently no generic concept to do it on Wayland. But on Qt it's plugin-able and GNOME has —according to their wiki— an own implementation for some time.

KWin/compositing/window management

• User Switching doesn't work: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439873
• When the compositor crashes, all apps die too: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437709
• Window activation / launch feedback: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/issues/39
  • Windows don't get brought forward when activated by another app: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424795
  • No feedback on Task Manager when an app is launched: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402903
  • No feedback on the cursor when an app is launched: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=405624
• Secondary screen doesn't come back on after disconnecting and reconnecting: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434683
• KWin crashes when monitor goes into standby: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=420160
• Very blurry fractional scaling for native Wayland windows due to using a downsampled 2x or 3x pixmap: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/issues/34
• Changes made to cursor theme/size do not take effect in Qt and XWayland software until the session is restarted (takes effect immediately in GTK software though): https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=420859
• Desktop Grid effect is missing wallpapers: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433071
• Context menus mis-positioned in multi-screen setups: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-85297
• Windows that were closed when maximized will open in the maximized position, but not the maximized state: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437089
• No color management: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439135 / https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/14

Plasma

• Panel disappears when connecting an external screen: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438114
• Task Manager thumbnails sometimes don't work: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427826
• Task Manager thumbnails sometimes show hue-rotated colors for XWayland windows: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437744
• Saving and restoring activities does not work
• KRunner doesn't render search results when using the proprietary Nvidia driver: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432062

System Settings

• Wrong mouse is selected for configuration by default: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438266
• Font Management KCM doesn't work/isn't visible: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439375

Drag and Drop issues

• Can't drag-and-drop between Wayland and Xwayland apps: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437406
• Can't abort drag-and-drop with the Esc key while dropped file is over Plasma panel or desktop: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=405267