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KDE Plasma 5.24.5 LTS Released with Even More Plasma Wayland Improvements, Bug Fixes
The KDE Project announced today KDE Plasma 5.24.5 as the fifth maintenance update to
the latest and greatest KDE Plasma 5.24 LTS desktop environment series, bringing even
more improvements and fixing annoying bugs.
Coming five weeks after KDE Plasma 5.24.4, the KDE Plasma 5.24.5 update is here with
even more Plasma Wayland session improvements and bug fixes.
For example, it adds a fix for a KWin crash that could occur when the screen was locked,
a fix for various visual glitches when unlocking the screen, improves KWin’s “Virtual Desktops”
window rule to work as expected, and a fix for a bug crashing SDL apps (e.g. games) when
unplugging an external monitor.
In addition, KDE Plasma 5.24.5 includes a fix for another bug that could crash the KWin
window and composite manager when a connected USB-C monitor wakes up from its power-save
state, a fix for another KWin crashing bug that could occur when an app misbehaves, as
well as another issue causing KWin to crash when changing your screen’s configuration
in certain ways, such as rotating and moving the screen without also changing the refresh
rate.
On top of that, the Plasma Wayland session was improved to add X11’s orange “needs
attention” background color on the window’s icon in Task Manager for windows that request
activation using the official Wayland activation protocol.
“If you encounter an app that does not get the orange background on its Task Manager
icon when it fails to activate (e.g. when clicking on a notification sent by Thunderbird
or Telegram), this means that the app in question does not implement the activation protocol
at all, and it should!
So go report this to its developers,” said developer Nate Graham.
The Plasma Discover package manager was improved as well in the KDE Plasma 5.24.5 release to
allow the installation of updates for packages that have multiple architectures available,
as well as to improve support for Flatpak apps by fixing a visual glitch with the “Install”
button after installing an app and addressing a crash that could occur when visiting the
Installed page of a Flatpak app when the Flatpak backend is activated with certain types of
Flatpak remotes.
KDE Plasma 5.24.5 also improves the Global Menu widget to work properly when enabling
its optional “be a hamburger menu” mode and to no longer display hidden menus for
certain apps, improves the Battery widget to always appear in the system tray after
logging in, updates the Comics widget to work as expected, and adds the ability to delete
the Widget Explorer sidebar when it is closed in an attempt to save more memory.
Furthermore, it adds support for desktop icons to remember their positions on a per-resolution
basis and ensures that manually-arranged desktop icons are no longer reset to an alphabetical
sorting mode when restarting the computer, and improves accent colors to no longer get
darken when using a dark base color scheme.
Other than that, KDE Plasma 5.24.5 further improves support for monitors so that they
won’t power-cycle in a loop after connecting them, allows all users to change the apps
in the Favorites section of the Kickoff and Kicker application menus while preserving
the changes during restart, and fixes the Meta+[number] keyboard shortcut for activating
Task Manager tasks to work as expected in all possible scenarios.
Last but not least, this release improves Plasma’s search functionality in KRunner,
Application Launcher, and the Overview mode to also return matches that are text files,
fixes the “Change Wallpaper…” button in System Settings’ Quick Settings page
to work when there are multiple Activities enabled, and addresses a random Plasma crash
that could occur when there’s more than one app with multiple windows opened and you
interact with one of their Task Manager tooltips.
Some visual glitches with the folder popup were addressed as well to allow an additional
grid cell, the Plasma Audio Volume Control widget’s subwoofer test was fixed, and many
other smaller issues have been patched to make KDE Plasma 5.24 LTS desktop environment
series more reliable and stable.
For extra reading, check out the full changelog, which includes details for all 73 changes
included in the KDE Plasma 5.24.5 update.
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KDE Plasma 5.24.5 announced
Bug fix version5.24.5 of KDE Plasma has been announced.
While it is stated that this is a bugfix release, it is reminded that the release is a new update
of KDE Plasma 5.24 , which was released in February with many feature improvements and
new modules to complete the desktop experience . This release is three weeks old from KDE
contributors.It is stated that he added new translations and corrections.
While it is stated that feedback and updates can be received from social media channels
to KDE; It is reminded that KDE software, which has been translated into more than 60
languages, was created with ease of use and modern accessibility principles in mind.
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KDE Plasma 5.24.5 LTS comes with bug fixes and improvements
The KDE Project has released a new maintenance version for the long-term-support KDE Plasma
5.24 desktop environment.
One of the popular desktop environments among the Linux distributions, KDE Plasma, has received
a new point update for its latest long-term-support version: 5.24 LTS.
Like every maintenance update, KDE Plasma 5.24.5 focuses on bug fixes and minor improvements
rather than new features.
Many fixes for KWin The new release brings some bug fixes for
the Plasma Wayland session such as a fix for the KWin crash when the screen is locked,
or the visual bugs while unlocking the screen.
KDE Plasma 5.24.5 fixes the KWin and the composite manager crashes related to Type-C-connected
monitors when they wake up; as well as another crash bug when changing the settings for the
screen.
While KDE Plasma 5.24.5 brings many minor improvements and bug fixes for KWin, the other
components of the desktop environment such as Breeze, DR Konqi, Plasma Addons, kwayland-server,
Plasma Desktop, Plasma Nano, Plasma NetworkManager, Plasma Audio Volume Control, Plasma Workspace,
and xdg-desktop-portal-kde have received fixes as well.
Plasma Workspace got a lot of minor changes especially.
You can read the full changelog by following the link below:
Click here to read the full changelog of KDE Plasma 5.24.5 LTS
While this is the latest patch that came from the KDE Project for the KDE Plasma desktop
environment, the most recent and feature-rich version is the KDE Plasma 5.25; which is not
a long-term support version, released in late April 2022.
The Linux distributions using KDE Plasma 5.24 LTS should push the latest version through
their repositories in a few days.
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