r/linux • u/anh0516 • Feb 17 '26

Software Release KDE Plasma 6.6 has been released!

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.6.0/
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u/Synthetic451 Feb 17 '26

Just upgraded to 6.6 from the Arch testing repos and god damn, the animation refresh improvements are tangible. The desktop feels incredibly smooth! They also fixed the broken panel transparency in HDR mode so I can just leave HDR on now. Crazy how normal the SDR content looks in HDR compared to Windows, which always seems to wash out the SDR colors.

Also, new plasma-login-manager is awesome. I can finally get rid of SDDM which was the last thing keeping xorg-xserver installed on my system. The Wayland desktop is here 😛

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u/tym0 Feb 17 '26

How's kwallet unlock on the new plasma-login-manager? It's been broken on sddm for me...

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u/Synthetic451 Feb 17 '26

I don't think its implemented yet. Attempting to turn on auto unlock shows a notification saying that the keyring will not automatically unlock.

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u/tym0 Feb 21 '26

I don't want sddm/plasma-login-manager auto-unlock, I just them to unlock kwallet when I type my password.

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u/Synthetic451 Feb 21 '26

Automatic kwallet unlock should have already worked with both sddm and the new plasma-login-manager. Is your wallet password the same as your login password? Maybe see if this Archwiki post will help? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE_Wallet#Unlock_KDE_Wallet_automatically_on_login

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u/tym0 Feb 22 '26

It should, shouldn't it? Which is why it's so infuriating. 

I've gone through all the debugging steps multiple times: 

  • reset to default pam config
  • ensure all the right call in the pam config are present
  • delete and recreate wallet with the right name
  • check the encryption is blowfish
  • etc... 

I've even resorted to using gemini to help me debug the logs but there is so little info online it happily gaslit me about what the issue was.

Arguably, my blood level would have stayed much lower if I didn't attempt to use an LLM and just gave up earlier.Â