{"id":33899,"date":"2025-08-02T13:57:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T13:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/cms\/?p=33899"},"modified":"2025-08-30T17:51:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T17:51:31","slug":"issues-upgrading-to-kde-plasma-6-from-plasma-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/cms\/2025\/08\/02\/issues-upgrading-to-kde-plasma-6-from-plasma-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Issues upgrading to KDE Plasma 6 from Plasma 5 – SOLVED!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this article I will attempt to address issues upgrading to KDE Plasma 6 from Plasma 5 that I have encountered lately. This is not an exhaustive list. But having undertaken a number of Debian 12 (“Bookworm”) to Debian 13 (“Trixie”) upgrades<\/a> recently, these are the KDE issues that cropped up for me. I thought I should write them up in the hope it might help someone else too.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Select desktop<\/h2>\n

If you have just upgraded your system and you are starting KDE plasma 6 for the first time, then you need to move your mouse pointer along the bottom left of your screen to check to see which desktop is selected. It is likely “Gnome on Wayland” or similar. You need to click this and select “Plasma (Wayland)” from the popup menu – assuming that’s what you want, of course. Unfortunately one cannot screengrab this screen. However the following photo should give you and idea where to look and what to select from the popup menu:-<\/p>\n

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Photo shows new Debian login screen, c\/w the menu that pops up, and what you need to click on that menu in order to select KDE Plasma on Wayland.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gripes and fixes<\/h2>\n

Overall, Plasma 6 is superb. However, the Plasma 5 to plasma 6 upgrade is massive. The remarkable thing about this upgrade is that compared to previous KDE version upgrades, we have so few problems this time around. However, there are still a number of minor annoyments. Fortunately these are trivially easy to fix, once you know how.<\/p>\n

Firstly, things may not be appearing on the desktop or task bar as expected and\/or the Spectacle screen capture (PrtScn) feature may be broken. Fortunately, there is is an easy fix for this, described in detail here:-<\/p>\n

Problems with KDE Plasma 6 on Debian Trixie<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n