KDE Plasma 6.6.3 Fixing Direct Scan-Out When Using Fractional Scaling
KDE developers continue being very busy working on Plasma 6.7 feature development as well as continuing to drive new fixes and refinements to the current Plasma 6.6 stable series.
This Week in Plasma is out with its newest issue to highlight the interesting Plasma 6.6/6.7 changes for the past seven days. Some of this week's KDE Plasma highlights include:
- Plasma 6.7 with the plasma-keyboard module will now allow you to type characters not on your physical keyboard by pressing and holding the keys that it does have. There is a whole blog post about this new feature here that is akin to the virtual keyboard press-and-hold-for-extra-characters feature on many smartphones.
- Plasma 6.7 will also allow installing custom sound themes from downloaded files.
- With Plasma 6.7, plugging in a USB printer will now only show one notification rather than two.
- A Plasma 6.7 fix for Electron apps with system tray icons where they end up all following each others' settings. It's an Electron bug that is fixed upstream but for out-of-date Electron apps, this Plasma side workaround should help.
- KDE Plasma 6.6.3 will reduce CPU and GPU load for full-screen windows in direct scan0out mode for screens using fractional scaling factors.
- On Plasma 6.7 for multi-GPU setups for cases where one of the GPUs doesn't support OpenGL acceleration, it will no longer prevent the other GPUs from providing 3D acceleration.
More details on these changes via This Week in Plasma.
This Week in Plasma is out with its newest issue to highlight the interesting Plasma 6.6/6.7 changes for the past seven days. Some of this week's KDE Plasma highlights include:
- Plasma 6.7 with the plasma-keyboard module will now allow you to type characters not on your physical keyboard by pressing and holding the keys that it does have. There is a whole blog post about this new feature here that is akin to the virtual keyboard press-and-hold-for-extra-characters feature on many smartphones.
- Plasma 6.7 will also allow installing custom sound themes from downloaded files.
- With Plasma 6.7, plugging in a USB printer will now only show one notification rather than two.
- A Plasma 6.7 fix for Electron apps with system tray icons where they end up all following each others' settings. It's an Electron bug that is fixed upstream but for out-of-date Electron apps, this Plasma side workaround should help.
- KDE Plasma 6.6.3 will reduce CPU and GPU load for full-screen windows in direct scan0out mode for screens using fractional scaling factors.
- On Plasma 6.7 for multi-GPU setups for cases where one of the GPUs doesn't support OpenGL acceleration, it will no longer prevent the other GPUs from providing 3D acceleration.
More details on these changes via This Week in Plasma.