Recent upgrade to Plasma 6 is terrible

akontsevich · March 14, 2024, 8:28pm

Hope at least April

It crashes only plasma for me because it mixed up plasma 5 and 6th packages all together. Manually reinstall/remove them solved the problem.

akontsevich · March 14, 2024, 8:41pm

However after packages re-installation: some dialogs become English, not my native language while I’ve reinstalled -lang packages as well. And greeting sound on plasma start is distorted: I thought it some pipewire bug come with some recent upgrade. Hope it will be fixed soon, but now I can’t upgrade, so probably need to downgrade even more - not sure to which version however.

akontsevich · March 14, 2024, 8:59pm

Why there is no other languages in the list in Plasma locale settings now?!

hui · March 14, 2024, 9:02pm

akontsevich · March 14, 2024, 9:09pm

yeah, helped: seems some was still missed, thanks!

jsmith64 · March 15, 2024, 3:37pm

Here’s how I fixed my SDDM scaling on Wayland using a 4K screen.

Make a file named hidpi.conf in the folder /etc/sddm.conf.d

Put this in the file.

[General]
GreeterEnvironment=QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS=2,QT_FONT_DPI=192

romariorios · March 15, 2024, 3:56pm

Do we have forum rules against instigating flamewars?

akontsevich · March 15, 2024, 3:56pm

Thanks, will use that next time I’ll try to migrate. This solves Plasma resolution as well or not?

pavinjoseph · March 15, 2024, 4:09pm

To clarify, did you mean the rollback to a snapshot prior to the KDE 6 dup did not work due to the home dir not being rolled back?

jsmith64 · March 15, 2024, 4:14pm

No. Right click the Plasma desktop and select display then set your scale factor. If that doesn’t work you have bigger problems.

akontsevich · March 15, 2024, 4:14pm

I thought this way. By fact - no: problem was in a lot of plasma6 packages was left behind (not uninstalled) and therefore there was a lot o conflicts with plasma5 packages with the same purpose. 2nd some: plasma5 and sddm5 packages were missed including *-lang. Forced to add them manually and justify all the KDE 5 dependencies and apps.

akontsevich · March 15, 2024, 4:16pm

yes, does not work - scaling look ugly.

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Gps2010 · March 16, 2024, 3:39am

This is what I ended up with, after my pc crashing, during zypper dup.

Starting from a snap shot fixed most issues, but there is some weird desktop stuff.
Task bar is not totally at the bottom anymore.

file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.systemmonitor/contents/ui/main.qml:17:1: module “org.kde.ksysguard.faces” is not installed

file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.systemmonitor/contents/ui/main.qml:16:1: module “org.kde.ksysguard.sensors” is not installed

file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.systemmonitor/contents/ui/main.qml:17:1: module “org.kde.ksysguard.faces” is not installed

file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.systemmonitor/contents/ui/main.qml:16:1: module “org.kde.ksysguard.sensors” is not installed

aggie · March 16, 2024, 4:15am

The task bar’s Style is probably set to Floating.

deano_ferrari · March 16, 2024, 4:21am

Yeah, that’s a new feature, which I actually like. It’s easy to disable if you don’t like it though…

Gps2010 · March 16, 2024, 5:42am

That did fix the floating, but I am worried but will wait and see.

It still looks like the zypper update ended weird. (from an TTL)

Lets hope 3 times is a charm, because this was my third attempt at zypper dup.

Unlike before though, zypper dup now tells me, there is nothing to do.

That is progress.

p_conrad · March 16, 2024, 10:15am

I just ran zypper dup, and after the upgrade my GUI performance is super laggy and close to unusable. top shows kwin_wayland hogging the CPU (slightly over 1000% sometimes).

I’m using KDE on an NVIDIA card with nvidia’s native drivers. The SDDM chooser doesn’t offer anything else (I know from my laptop that there should be a dropdown somewhere in a corner, but there isn’t.)

I have tried moving my ~/.config aside but that didn’t change anything performance-wise.

One thing that seems a little off is that inxi -G says something about “nouveau”, which seems wrong. I don’t have the nouveau drivers loaded:

~> lsmod |grep nvid
nvidia_drm             77824  13
nvidia_modeset       1511424  1 nvidia_drm
nvidia_uvm           2723840  0
nvidia              40747008  89 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset
video                  77824  1 nvidia_modeset
~> inxi -G
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GK208B [GeForce GT 710] driver: nvidia v: 470.239.06
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.4
    compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nouveau
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: nvidia resolution: 1600x1200
  API: OpenGL v: 4.5 vendor: mesa v: 23.3.6 renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 17.0.6
    256 bits)
  API: Vulkan Message: No Vulkan data available.
  API: EGL Message: EGL data requires eglinfo. Check --recommends.

Ideas anyone?

gehoff · March 16, 2024, 10:18am

Prove it. Every single document says Plasma 6 will NOT support X11…

gehoff · March 16, 2024, 10:19am

There is no option (on the login screen) to select X11. Just Wayland and ICEDM (or something)