All articles tagged with #kwin
KDE Plasma 6.8 advances with several performance boosts (faster startup, lighter Discover checks, quicker screenshots and screen recordings) and UI/workflow tweaks (English keyword search for System Settings, better lock‑screen layout, broader GPU‑reset alerts, GTK4 menu styling, plus SVG caching in Frameworks 6.30) as development progresses toward beta and an October release.
KDE Plasma 6.8 boosts multi-GPU/eGPU performance by adding DMA-BUF v6 support to KWin for direct scan-out and fewer copies, delivering substantial FPS gains (e.g., external GPU tests from 40 to 120 FPS and Cyberpunk 2077 from 27 to 50 FPS); it also adds pixel-by-pixel screen layout editing and includes KDE Frameworks 6.29 fixes for a notification-related freeze, with more changes covered in This Week in Plasma.
KDE Plasma 6.7 adds Wayland session management via KWin, introduces per-screen virtual desktops, lets you set the default calendar app, and shows GPU names in System Monitor for multi-GPU setups, along with related Frameworks 6.26 changes and other improvements from a Graz developer sprint.
KDE Plasma is implementing stricter focus-stealing prevention on Wayland using the XDG Activation protocol, with a new 'Extreme' setting in KWin to ensure windows only gain focus with valid activation tokens, improving window focus security and behavior.