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This page is the Wayland-specific companion to
Plasma/X11 Known Significant Issues
, and tracks the "Errata/Known issues" that are specific to the Plasma Wayland session: significant omissions compared to the X11 session, quality-of-life annoyances, problems with workarounds, etc. This is part of KDE's
Wayland goal
Dropping X11 session support is tracked at
and is currently planned for the release of Plasma 6.8,
expected October 14th 2026. Per
standard policy
, Plasma 6.7 will get one additional bugfix release.
To learn how to do various things on Wayland that you know how to do on X11, see
this companion page
Window management
No ability to save and restore positions of native Wayland windows:
Real-fake-session-restored apps don't remember which virtual desktop their windows were on:
No full-screen aspect ratio correction:
Non-maximizable windows are broken with placement policy set as maximized:
Keyboard/typing
"Spare Layouts" feature not implemented:
"Per-application Keyboard Layout" does not work:
Screens
No way to change the gamma or manually adjust the colors without generating or finding an appropriate ICC profile
Graphic Tablet Support
Can't switch between multiple touch strip modes:
/ In progress:
Remote desktop
No headless RDP:
and
KDE applications
Opening files using command-line binaries in Konsole doesn't raise existing windows:
Waiting on new Wayland protocol
Global Menu is not supported for non-Qt apps:
. Needed wayland protocol: see
Fixed in an upcoming version
No ability to save and restore window content and state of native Wayland windows:
- implemented in Plasma 6.7
References
Going all-in on a Wayland future
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