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== Upstream ==
== Upstream ==
=== Not yet fixed ===
=== Not yet fixed ===
* With screen scaling, cursor size is incorrect when hovering over native Wayland apps written with the GTK and Electron toolkits due to their lack of support for the cursor-shape-v1 protocol: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451158. See also https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=459161 for general cursor size issues.
* With screen scaling, cursor size is incorrect when hovering over native Wayland apps written with the toolkit due to its lack of support for the cursor-shape-v1 protocol: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451158. See also https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=459161 for general cursor size issues.
* With a high DPI mouse, some applications might experience instability or unresponsiveness: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/issues/443
* With a high DPI mouse, some applications might experience instability or unresponsiveness: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/issues/443
=== Fixed or work in progress ===
=== Fixed or work in progress ===
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* Plasma and apps crash when dragging anything into another app: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470925 - fixed in Qt 6.6
* Plasma and apps crash when dragging anything into another app: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470925 - fixed in Qt 6.6
* Unusably poor performance on external screens with NVIDIA Optimus setup: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452219 - NVidia will release a driver that fixes this before Plasma 6.0 is released
* Unusably poor performance on external screens with NVIDIA Optimus setup: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452219 - NVidia will release a driver that fixes this before Plasma 6.0 is released
* With screen scaling, cursor size was incorrect when hovering over Chromium-based browsers and Electron apps with native Wayland support enabled: cursor-shape-v1 protocol was implemented in Chromium 122: crrev.com/c/5196950, available in Electron 29: https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v29.0.0

Revision as of 22:01, 27 February 2024

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

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


Session management

KWin/compositing/window management

Accessibility

Plasma

NVIDIA

Upstream

Not yet fixed

Fixed or work in progress

Fixed upstream

These are fixed upstream but neither backportable nor backported to Qt 5. The issues listed in this section will not affect Plasma 6 or newer.