KDE Plasma 6.9 Finally Allows XWayland To Run On-Demand, New Wobbly Windows Presets

This Week in Plasma is out with its latest issue following a week of exciting developments toward the KDE Plasma 6.9 desktop. Most exciting this week, KDE Plasma 6.9 will now only load and start XWayland when needed. Up to now XWayland would still be running even if no apps were using it but now for Plasma 6.9 all the work is complete where XWayland can be properly loaded on-demand. KDE Plasma 6.9 is also seeing more work on the System Settings area, like porting more of the pages over to QML. KWin's "wobbly windows" effect also now has some fun-named presets for different levels of wobbliness. Among these presets to replace the previous wobbliness slider are water, pudding, molasses, Nitroglycerin, and then a custom ability remains as well. KDE Plasma 6.9 is also making Spectacle much faster to launch thanks to optimizations. Meanwhile for KDE Plasma 6.8.3 there is a screen locker crash fix, a recent visual corruption fix for certain systems with Intel CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs, and other fixes. More details on these KDE Plasma changes for the middle of November can be found via This Week in Plasma.