Plasma/Wayland Known Significant Issues: Difference between revisions

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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.

Session management

User switching doesn't work: https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/1371
Session restoring does not include Wayland native windows. 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

Session doesn't start with NVIDIA GPU and proprietary drivers: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435673
When the compositor crashes, all apps crash too: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-85631
No Wayland protocol for cross-app window activation/focus, or launch feedback: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/50
- Windows don't get brought forward when activated by another app: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424795
- No feedback on the 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
"Pin/keep open" functionality for Plasma applets does not work: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400317
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
Some menus appear in the wrong location as separate windows with titlebars:
- Context menus: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=417378
- In-titlebar app menu: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430662

Plasma

Context menus close immediately when the tooltip for thing that you right-clicked on closes itself: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=417939 / https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-83972
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
Cannot unlock session after external screen turns off: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428706
Saving and restoring activities does not work (everything else does, though).
Task Manager thumbnails sometimes don't work: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427826
Present Windows effect doesn't activate when clicking on grouped Task Manager entries: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404953
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)

Drag and Drop issues

Plasma crashes when dragging a file over the panel: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398440
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

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 == Session management ==
-* User switching doesn't work: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435389
+* User switching doesn't work: https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/1371
 * Session restoring does not include Wayland native windows. Our sessions management recover engine is based on the [https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/libSM/xsmp.html 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 [https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SessionManagement/GnomeSession their wiki] an own implementation for some time.