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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I want to love KDE, and really, I do, but I just can’t replace my normal desktop. Gnome makes sense to me. I disagree with a lot of their “simplification” ideology, but I can’t say they do a bad job at it.
I’m happy you’re enjoying KDE. Enjoy it even more for me. :)
ha! i’m the exact opposite! it’s great that Linux provides us options.
True! Everyone gets to use what they like. :) It’s one of the many reasons I switched from winblows.
Have you tried plasma 6?
Yeah, I have. It’s a huge improvement over 5. I use it on my virtual machines, since flinging the mouse into the corner isn’t really an option there, I just can’t get used to it on my main machine.
Plasma has mouse corner stuff, I always turn it off because I will forget that it’s on and accidentally trigger something, but it’s there and ready to bind to your actions!
Yeah, I meant that I don’t use Gnome on my virtual PCs, because it’s not as easy without the mouse corner stuff. KDE is easy even without the mouse corner stuff.
Plasma uses Wayland, doesn’t it?
oh shit, it does hahah. I guess it’s not a wayland issue then. :s
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.
When using gamescope, there’s also
--force-grab-cursor: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamescope#Cursor_doesn’t_behave_properly
Existing versions support both X11 and Wayland. Future versions will only support Wayland.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/going-all-in-on-a-wayland-future/
But once you’ll br affected by a bug you may not like it as much. I reported a bug many months ago about being unable to download or visualize image from Nextcloud, and I’m yet to see any reply on my report.
games would lose mouse lock
Did gamescope not do the trick for you? Having used both Gnome and KDE on Wayland anytime I’ve encountered that issue the solution was simply to use gamescope.
This is why I think people should stop talking about Ubuntu so much and name drop Kubuntu more, it’s the new top dog in the family
IDK what is up with Kubuntu, but it always has show-stopping bugs when I use it. I think it’s the reason everyone thinks Plasma is buggy. Any other distro seems to work fine with Plasma.
Interesting, I wonder if I’m avoiding these by using the backports lol
Possibly. I can’t say I’ve ever tried to add Plasma to vanilla Ubuntu, other than trying out Kubuntu every once in a while when I try to put a new linux user on something, I’ve been off Ubuntu for well over a decade.
What kind of graphics card do you have? This smells like an Nvidia issue. I haven’t had any Wayland issues since I switched to AMD
I am using Fedora with Gnome on Wayland with an AMD gpu and have encountered the same issue. Someone found issues that should be fixed in the mutter 49.3 version, should probably be in Gnome 49.4 - Reddit comment
Huh, alright. That’s annoying. People were downvoting me for some reason but I was literally just curious, and you’ve given the exact kind of answer I was hoping for to satisfy that curiosity. Thank you.
