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.

Session management

• User switching doesn't work: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435389
• 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