This page is the Wayland-specific companion to Plasma/X11 Known Significant Issues, and tracks the "Errata/Known issues" that are specific to the Plasma Wayland session: significant omissions compared to the X11 session, quality-of-life annoyances, problems with workarounds, etc. This is part of KDE's Wayland goal.
Dropping X11 session support is tracked at https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/issues/202 and is currently planned for the release of Plasma 6.8,[1] expected October 14th 2026. Per standard policy, Plasma 6.7 will get one additional bugfix release.
To learn how to do various things on Wayland that you know how to do on X11, see this companion page.
Window management
- No ability to save and restore positions of native Wayland windows: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15329
- Real-fake-session-restored apps don't remember which virtual desktop their windows were on: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482816
- No full-screen aspect ratio correction: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461063
- Non-maximizable windows are broken with placement policy set as maximized: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499256
Keyboard/typing
- "Spare Layouts" feature not implemented: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455431 / https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/5963
- "Per-application Keyboard Layout" does not work: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476831
Screens
- No way to change the gamma or manually adjust the colors without generating or finding an appropriate ICC profile
Graphic Tablet Support
- Can't switch between multiple touch strip modes: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477787 / In progress: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/3353
Remote desktop
- No headless RDP: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481912 and https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/issues/2637
KDE applications
- Opening files using command-line binaries in Konsole doesn't raise existing windows: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=442265
Waiting on new Wayland protocol
- Global Menu is not supported for non-Qt apps: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424485. Needed wayland protocol: see https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/493
Fixed in an upcoming version
- No ability to save and restore window content and state of native Wayland windows: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436318 - implemented in Plasma 6.7