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Just installed KDE Plasma on my Ubuntu system to replace GNOME and Wayland. Mainly to get rid of an issue where my games would lose mouse lock, but now I can have two different wallpapers on both monitors and have a clock on my second monitor which is AWESOME.

I WISH I INSTALLED IT SOONER, I LOVE IT.

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[–] who@feddit.org 26 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Existing versions support both X11 and Wayland. Future versions will only support Wayland.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/going-all-in-on-a-wayland-future/

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

But X support is through Wayland, at just that was my impression. I mean it's not using X11 directly, or is it?

[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 12 points 4 weeks ago

It is, up untill Plasma 6.8 (estimated release early 2027) Plasma can do both direct to X11, or direct wayland with xwayland support for legacy apps.