Workspace Sprint
The last week I was allowed to spend in Pineda de Mar for the Workspace sprint. As others have already pointed out it was quite a different sprint with not much hacking going on and not so much...
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Fallback mode in KDE Plasma Workspaces
Recently there has been a lot of buzz about non-composited fallback modes in various Desktop Shells and of course I have been asked several times about the fallback modes in KDE Plasma workspaces and...
View ArticleThe relationship between Plasma and KWin in Workspaces 2
Yesterday during the Tokamak 6 sprint in Nuremberg we discussed the role of KWin in Plasma Workspaces 2. At the moment in Plasma Workspaces 1 KWin is of course the recommended window manager and...
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Four years later
At beginning of June 2011 I made my first blog post about KWin support Wayland clients featuring a screenshot of Desktop Grid effect with a Wayland window shown on each desktop. Now it’s almost four...
View ArticleGlobal shortcut handling in a Plasma Wayland session
KDE Frameworks contain a framework called KGlobalAccel. This framework allows applications to register key bindings (e.g. Alt+Tab) for actions. When the key binding is triggered the action gets...
View ArticlePlasma Phone and KWin
As you are probably aware by now we announced the Plasma Phone project during Akademy this weekend. In this blog post I want to discuss the role of KWin in Plasma Phone. Plasma Phone uses Wayland as...
View ArticleLooking at the security of Plasma/Wayland
Our beta release of Plasma 5.5 includes a Wayland session file which allows to start in a Plasma on Wayland session directly from a login manager supporting Wayland session. This is a good point in...
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A task manager for the Plasma Wayland session
Plasma 5.7 will ship with a new taskmanager library. One of the reasons to implement a new taskmanager library is the port to Wayland. Our old code base was heavily relying on X11 and didn’t support...
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Wayland in Plasma 5.7
Last week we released the beta version of Plasma 5.7 which means we know what this release will have for better Wayland support. First of all I need to mention what didn’t make it: unfortunately I...
View ArticleAnimating auto-hiding panels
With Plasma 5 a change regarding auto-hiding panels was introduced. The complete interaction was moved from Plasma to KWin. This was an idea which we had in mind for a long time. The main idea is to...
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Wayland improvements since Plasma 5.8 release
Two weeks have passed since the Plasma 5.8 release and our Wayland efforts have seen quite some improvements. Some changes went into Plasma 5.8 as bug fixes, some changes are only available in master...
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Virtual Keyboard on Lock Screen
As part of our efforts to improve out of box experience for touch screens I’m pleased to announce that Plasma 5.10 will provide integration for virtual keyboard. Plasma 5.10 finally integrates...
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Plasma Wayland and Qt 5.9 and beyond
As you might know Qt 5.8 created challenging problems for our Wayland session and threw our efforts back quite a bit. In this post I want to discuss the actual problems it created, how we are...
View ArticlePlasma/Wayland and NVIDIA – 2017 edition
More than a year ago I elaborated whether KWin should or should not add support for NVIDIA’s proprietary Wayland solution. I think it is time to look at the situation of Plasma/Wayland and NVIDIA...
View ArticleUnsetting QT_QPA_PLATFORM environment variable by default
Since the introduction of the Plasma/Wayland session we set the QT_QPA_PLATFORM variable to wayland by default. After a long and hard discussion we decided to no longer do this with Plasma 5.13. This...
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