No, only when you click on an input field and have it enabled in the system tray

The virtual keyboard is hidden by default, unless you’re using touch. You can change that by setting the KWIN_IM_SHOW_ALWAYS=1 environment variable, until there’s a proper setting for it

It hasn’t operated at a loss anymore for years you mean?

Quite the opposite, bigger grids are much more stable. When faults happen, tiny subsets of the grid get disconnected from the rest, it does not take the whole thing down at all…

Yes, for now someone has to be logged in and have the server running

To maybe prevent a catastrophe: The system is not able to restore virtual desktop assignments yet, it only starts the apps you had open before.

Just click the button in the sddm settings page

That’s just a law of computers, the default arrangement of monitors must always be wrong.

You can just sync your Plasma settings to SDDM though, and it’ll use the same output settings as your session

Fedora just has

polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
    if ((action.id == "org.freedesktop.packagekit.package-install" ||
         action.id == "org.freedesktop.packagekit.package-remove") &&
        subject.active == true && subject.local == true &&
        subject.isInGroup("wheel")) {
            return polkit.Result.YES;
    }
});

in /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/org.freedesktop.packagekit.rules. If you put the same file in there, it should work.

Yes, and many distros have a polkit rule set up to allow installing or updating without a password. You can likely just copy it from Fedora or sth

You can probably implement it in the script itself, but there’s no external functionality to do it

Almost every output setting “may seriously break things” in my experience. Display drivers are sadly quite fragile

Changing the output config file should work, as long as KWin isn’t running while you make the change (in which case the change will just be overridden)

Edit: Also, please make a bug report about this for KWin. It’s probably not a KWin issue, but we can usually figure out where it’s coming from

Many monitors allow you to turn off HDR, they just claim they don’t support it to the computer when you do that

4k is literally a resolution, usually 3840x2160 or something around that. 1080p is another resolution, usually 1920x1080. These are never comparable.

You would be right if lossy compression wasn’t a thing. But it is, and it’s getting used a lot.

“4k” can very much be worse than 1080p if it’s compressed in a way that erases more details. That’s what people are complaining about with streaming services and YouTube - the resolution numbers don’t mean shit, and quality at a given “resolution” has been degraded more and more over time.

I’m one of the KWin maintainers, I can tell you with absolute certainty that this hasn’t changed. Maybe you were on Xorg then?

No, they were always global. Scrolling on the desktop to change virtual desktops was disabled by default, but nothing changed about the three finger gestures

It was already a pain that one could not personalize these actions, but at least the defaults were ok for me (3 finger up/down for desktop grid/present windows). And I could use fusuma for more.
The new defaults hijacks all 3-finger gestures to scroll one virtual desktop up/down left/right which I find useless.

You don’t remember the gestures on Plasma 5 correctly. They already used both 3 and 4 finger gestures like they do now, and 3 finger gestures were for virtual desktop switching too.

There is no gesture, only horizontal scroll. The app has to scroll when there is content to scroll, and interpret the horizontal scroll as a gesture thing when you can’t scroll anymore. Firefox has that implemented, and every app that wants this to work needs to implement it for itself.

They are afaik not allowed to exist with USB C. And except for some very few very sketchy manufacturers, it’s also luckily not a thing in practice.