Plasma/X11 Known Significant Issues: Difference between revisions

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* No native touchpad gestures  
* No native touchpad gestures  
* No support for GPU hot-plug
* No support for GPU hot-plug
* No support for automatic screen rotation
* Bad multi-gpu performance in many cases
* Bad multi-gpu performance in many cases
* No support for HDR
* No support for HDR

Revision as of 23:50, 20 December 2023

This page tracks the "Errata/Known issues" that are specific to the the Plasma X11 session: significant quality-of-life annoyances, significant problems with workarounds, etc. It is the X11-specific companion to Plasma/Wayland Known Significant Issues.


X server

  • If the X server crashes, all apps are killed
  • If a context menu is open, it blocks automatic screen locking and global shortcuts
  • No isolation between processes; any app can spy on what other apps are doing
  • No protection from malicious apps secretly recording keystrokes or the screen, etc

Multiscreen/scaling

Plasma

KWin/rendering/graphics

NVIDIA

System Settings