Difficulties with Plasma Wayland

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xheralt

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Mar 6, 2025, 6:41:05 PMMar 6
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Right now I'm running three different distros on my three machines (a desktop, an all-in-one, and my laptop).  The third machine (desktop) is the latest release of PCLinuxOS (2024.10), fully updated.  One of the choices they made is to make Plasma/Wayland the default desktop, and I am beginning to utterly loathe it.  The desktop crashes with distressing regularity, something I've never encountered in a Linux install before, and it seems to happen when control characters are input from the keyboard, especially if they are arbitrary, accidental or unexpected.  But sometimes even when expected, it completely kills the gui, all open programs, and dumps me back to the login screen!  This especially seems to happen with CTRL-C.  Yes, that's right, attempting to do good old fashioned copypasting is as effective as CTRL-SHIFT-DEL.  I've also had it happen while attempting to add a comment within a LibreOffice document, which is CTRL-ALT-C.  Has anyone else found this in other distros using Wayland, or is this just PCLOS?  The kicker is, if I log in using the regular non-Wayland Plasma, this doesn't happen, it's as stable as one would normally expect (and I'm still trying to figure out how to make the regular Plasma the default desktop on that system).

Tom

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Mar 7, 2025, 4:00:00 PMMar 7
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That's mighty odd. All my recent machines use plasma and wayland under it, and I have not seen that behavior. I run it on a Dell Optiplex mini Core-i5, a desktop Asus Core-i7, and some VMs.
 
At 03:41 PM 3/6/2025 -0800, xheralt wrote:
Right now I'm running three different distros on my three machines (a desktop, an all-in-one, and my laptop).  The third machine (desktop) is the latest release of PCLinuxOS (2024.10), fully updated.  One of the choices they made is to make Plasma/Wayland the default desktop, and I am beginning to utterly loathe it.  The desktop crashes with distressing regularity, something I've never encountered in a Linux install before, and it seems to happen when control characters are input from the keyboard, especially if they are arbitrary, accidental or unexpected.  But sometimes even when expected, it completely kills the gui, all open programs, and dumps me back to the login screen!  This especially seems to happen with CTRL-C.& nbsp; Yes, that's right, attempting to do good old fashioned copypasting is as effective as CTRL-SHIFT-DEL.  I've also had it happen while attempting to add a comment within a LibreOffice document, which is CTRL-ALT-C.  Has anyone else found this in other distros using Wayland, or is this just PCLOS?  The kicker is, if I log in using the regular non-Wayland Plasma, this doesn't happen, it's as stable as one would normally expect (and I'm still trying to figure out how to make the regular Plasma the default desktop on that system).
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