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itz_me_shervin

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Registered: 2021-10-16

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[SOLVED] Can't get KDE 5.23 version

Hi there ,
        I heard about KDE Plasma version 5.23 , but i cant get an update to KDE 5.23 in my Arch System.
https://imgur.com/a/lT1SMgF

Last edited by itz_me_shervin (2021-10-18 06:22:36)

deadite66

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Registered: 2015-06-13

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get KDE 5.23 version

its currently in the testing repo, which is normally disabled.

you can enable it in /etc/pacman.conf but ymmv.

if you wait i expect it will move to the main repos next week.

Last edited by deadite66 (2021-10-16 08:53:14)

mcloaked

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Registered: 2012-02-02

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get KDE 5.23 version

You might want to wait before updating to 5.23 - see https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/72420

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itz_me_shervin

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get KDE 5.23 version

Oh Ok , i'll wait for the stable update to be available on the main repo

( How can i mark this topic as solved ? )

Last edited by itz_me_shervin (2021-10-16 13:57:44)

mcloaked

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get KDE 5.23 version

Just edit the first comment a the top of the thread and you will find you can also edit the title to add [SOLVED] to the line. By the way there is usually a very good reason if a package is in testing and there is a delay before going to the extra/community/core repos.

Last edited by mcloaked (2021-10-16 17:25:28)

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deadite66

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get KDE 5.23 version

Personally i haven't had any big problems with 5.23, have been using Plasma from kde-unstable and now testing and forwarding bugs to bugs.kde.org

Plasma Wayland on the other hand is near unusable for many users with multiple screens atm.

mcloaked

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't get KDE 5.23 version

There is a new version in [community] that looks like it (mostly) fixes the issues reported. (5.23.0-2). I have updated on several machines - on those machines where the user areas were created in the past year or so, it seems that there is no problem with the plasma desktop login for 5.23. However I have a user area that has been running with plasma desktop since its inception, and also when it was previously kde rather than plasma so the user area is some years old.  On that user area although the sddm greeter presented the user just fine, once the password was entered the login hung with the splash screen and did not progress to a graphical desktop.  In the end I moved the .config directory in its entirety to .config.prev and then tried again - the user login completed to the plasma desktop from the sddm login prompt, but of course all the desktop customisation then had to be reset from defaults.  But at least that was a route to getting the desktop back, despite time being required to reset everything to the way the user liked.

Edit: The upstream report suggests that removing the compositor section from .config/kwinrc may be enough to have fixed my plasma login on machines where the login failed after update to 5.23.  That would need further testing.

Edit 2:
I can now confirm that on two user accounts where there were additional lines in the [compositing] section of kwinrc changing the lines to include only two lines as per:

[Compositing]
GLCore=true
OpenGLIsUnsafe=false

and then logging in via sddm gave no repeat of the failure to login to the plasma desktop.

The original lines in one case were:

[Compositing]
Backend=OpenGL
Enabled=true
GLColorCorrection=false
GLCore=true
GLPlatformInterface=egl
GLPreferBufferSwap=a
GLTextureFilter=2
HiddenPreviews=5
OpenGLIsUnsafe=false
UnredirectFullscreen=false
XRenderSmoothScale=false

Clearly one or more of the lines in that section of kwinrc that had been placed in the file in the past is not compatible with 5.23, but it is useful to know that this simple change prevents the bug where login fails.

Last edited by mcloaked (2021-10-18 09:35:48)

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