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This page tracks the Wayland showstoppers throughout the stack.
This page tracks the "Errata/Known issues" that are specific to the Plasma Wayland session: significant omissions compared to the X11 session, quality-of-life annoyances, problems with workarounds, etc. This is part of KDE's [[Goals/Wayland|Wayland goal]].


== KWin/compositing/window management ==
It is the Wayland-specific companion to [[Plasma/X11 Known Significant Issues]].
* When the compositor crashes, all apps crash too: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-85631
* Spectacle rectangular region and active window screenshots don't work on setups with multiple screens: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432260
* No Wayland protocol for cross-app window activation/focus, so windows don't get brought forward when activated by another app: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424795 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/50
* No Wayland protocol for app launch feedback, so there is no feedback on the cursor or Task Manager when an app is launched: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402903
* "Pin/keep open" functionality for Plasma applets does not work: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400317
* XWayland windows are upscaled from a 1x pixmap and look blurry and ugly in HiDPI mode: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389191 and https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433115
* 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
* Visual glitch behind integrated terminals (Dolphin, Kate, etc): https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432242
* GTK CSD apps don't display any window shadows: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433977


== Input ==
Dropping X11 session support is tracked at https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/issues/202 and is currently planed for the release of Plasma 6.8 . There is no release date for Plasma 6.8, yet. Plasma 6.7 (the last version supporting the X11 session) might get a prolonged bugfix period, but this has not yet been decided. <ref>[https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/going-all-in-on-a-wayland-future/ Going all-in on a Wayland future]</ref>
* XKB options don't work: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433265
* Touchpad Gestures:
** They are not configurable
** They are very boolean, they don't show any feedback until they're executed.
* Can't type accented characters in native Wayland Qt apps: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411729 / https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-87088


== Plasma ==
== Window management ==
* 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.
* No ability to save and restore positions of native Wayland windows: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15329
* No activities. Kwin now has minimal support for them: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/753
* No ability to save and restore window content and state of native Wayland windows: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436318
* Session sometimes crashes when changing Global Themes: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422424
* Real-fake-session-restored apps don't remember which virtual desktop their windows were on: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482816
* Plasma sometimes crashes when changing Global Themes: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414834
* 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)


== Drag and Drop issues ==
== Keyboard/typing ==
* Plasma crashes when dragging a file over the panel: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398440
* "Spare Layouts" feature not implemented: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455431 / https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/5963
* Cursor sometimes erroneously displays "no drag possible" icon even when it is possible: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383794
* "Per-application Keyboard Layout" does not work: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476831
* 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
 
== Screens ==
* No way to change the gamma or manually adjust the colors without generating or finding an appropriate ICC profile
 
== Accessibility ==
* Lack of virtual keyboard that emulates a hardware keyboard
 
== Graphic Tablet Support ==
* Some tablets allow users to switch between touch strip modes. For example, you can click a button and change the mode from one set of shortcuts like scrolling to another set of shortcuts, like changing hue or zooming in and out. This is not possible on Plasma Wayland: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477787
 
== Remote desktop ==
* No headless RDP: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481912 and https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/issues/2637
 
== KDE applications ==
* Opening files using command-line binaries in Konsole doesn't raise existing windows: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=442265
 
== Waiting on new Wayland protocol ==
* Global Menu is not supported for non-Qt apps: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424485. Needed wayland protocol: see https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/52
 
== Fixed in an upcoming version ==
* Sub-menus are mis-positioned when parent menu is close to a screen edge: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=500584 / https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-124810 - fixed in Qt 6.11
* Can't set custom modelines for screens: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=456697 - Implemented in Plasma 6.6.0
* Output mirroring is buggy: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481222 - Fixed in Plasma 6.6.0
* Slow Keys feature doesn't work: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490826 - Fixed in Plasma 6.6.0

Latest revision as of 15:50, 2 January 2026

This page tracks the "Errata/Known issues" that are specific to the Plasma Wayland session: significant omissions compared to the X11 session, quality-of-life annoyances, problems with workarounds, etc. This is part of KDE's Wayland goal.

It is the Wayland-specific companion to Plasma/X11 Known Significant Issues.

Dropping X11 session support is tracked at https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/issues/202 and is currently planed for the release of Plasma 6.8 . There is no release date for Plasma 6.8, yet. Plasma 6.7 (the last version supporting the X11 session) might get a prolonged bugfix period, but this has not yet been decided. [1]

Window management

Keyboard/typing

Screens

  • No way to change the gamma or manually adjust the colors without generating or finding an appropriate ICC profile

Accessibility

  • Lack of virtual keyboard that emulates a hardware keyboard

Graphic Tablet Support

  • Some tablets allow users to switch between touch strip modes. For example, you can click a button and change the mode from one set of shortcuts like scrolling to another set of shortcuts, like changing hue or zooming in and out. This is not possible on Plasma Wayland: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477787

Remote desktop

KDE applications

Waiting on new Wayland protocol

Fixed in an upcoming version

  1. ↑ Going all-in on a Wayland future
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