



You should get native resolution options in Wayland sessions. The upstream Wayland change for this was merged a few months back in 2022. Kubuntu 23.04 Wayland session now supports fractional scaling natively.

So, you should get an optimized session based on whether you are watching a movie, playing games or casually browsing the web. This allows Kwin to tweak the display behaviour (direct scanout, variable refresh rate, etc.) based on the content displayed on the screen. Wayland session in Kubuntu desktop also brings content type. In the Wayland session, if you become idle, the data can now be consumed by various apps and modules to save power, change the status in messaging apps, etc. I hope this makes it on par with the Windows experience.Īnother Wayland fix which comes via Plasma 5.27 to this release is the inclusion of the Wayland implementation of idle notification protocol. With this change, you should experience smooth scrolling performance in Chrome and Firefox browsers. Kubuntu 23.04 now supports high-resolution scrolling in Wayland, thanks to libinput 1.9 version changes. KDE Plasma 5.27 is the last version of the “Plasma 5” series and it’s significantly feature rich and continues to be supported for a couple of years until “Plasma 6” is stable. However, Kubuntu 23.04 features KDE Plasma 5.27, which is the latest plasma release. If you are using Kubuntu 22.10 or earlier versions, you can spot many differences in the KDE Plasma desktop.įor example, Kubuntu 22.10 (the last version) featured KDE Plasma 5.25, which missed Plasma 5.26 for the schedule conflicts.
