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I wish I installed Plasma on my Ubuntu sooner (lemmy.ca)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/linux@programming.dev
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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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[–] 21 points 9 months ago (9 children)

Plasma uses Wayland, doesn't it?

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    It (Wayland) is the default session, but supports both for now. OP mentioned they chose the X11 session because games lose mouse lock, which is why GNOME wasn't an option since it doesnt support X11.

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    It supports both, but X is going through Wayland, not a direct support. At least that's how I understand it.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    no. i believe you're talking about how existing x11 programs can run under wayland through xwayland. kde plasma as of now can still operate as an X11 DE.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    To clarify: KDE Plasma has both an X11 and Wayland session, on the Wayland session X11 apps run using the provided Xwayland server.

    The difference is that there are some restrictions for X11 apps, like on many distros X11 apps can't detect all keypresses when not focused or steal mouse focus.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    oh shit, it does hahah. I guess it's not a wayland issue then. :s

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    The issue is that full screen games wouldn't hold onto the mouse? Are these games running through proton (windows games being launched through steam)? If so, I know there's an option in protontricks to tweak this behavior per game. "Automatically capture the mouse in full screen windows" in winecfg.

    Alternatively, you can try tweaking your steam launch params to use gamescope. Ex.

    gamescope -W 1920 -H 1080 -r 60 -- %command%

    Where the params denote the resolution and refresh rate of the window. You may need to install gamescope from your package manager.

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