{"id":509508,"date":"2026-06-20T11:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T11:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/509508\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T11:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T11:31:10","slug":"kde-plasma-6-8-making-it-easier-to-configure-multi-monitor-setups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/509508\/","title":{"rendered":"KDE Plasma 6.8 Making It Easier To Configure Multi-Monitor Setups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KDE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/assets\/categories\/kde.webp\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/><br \/>\nWith KDE&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/KDE-Plasma-6.7-Released\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Plasma 6.7 desktop<\/a> having released this week, more development attention is turning to feature work toward Plasma 6.8 but there are also some fixes already accumulating for the Plasma 6.7.1 point release.<\/p>\n<p>A feature found with some graphics drivers and operating systems for many years, monitors are now identified with color-coded number badges when configuring multi-monitor setups. This makes in turn recognizing monitors much easier for configuration, especially if having multiple displays of the same model. These color-coded monitor number badges are for Plasma 6.8 and were merged this week. This is particular useful for those with elaborate multi-monitor setups and more complex layouts than just a dual side-by-side configuration.&#13;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781955070_139_image.webp\" alt=\"Plasma 6.7 color coded monitor labels\"\/><\/p>\n<p>For Plasma 6.8, QML-based KDE apps are now using the KDE-style color picker rather than the Qt color picker that doesn&#8217;t respect KDE color schemes.<\/p>\n<p>For the Plasma 6.7.1 point release is now a smooth blend effect when switching between global themes.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Plasma 6.7.1 is also turning off its game controller input plug-in by default after some issues were uncovered with it taking more time to improve this plug-in. One of the pressing issues is a race condition on controller hot-plug causing problems.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>For the prior stable series, Plasma 6.6.6 will correct an issue where KWin would fail to start at login for some older GPUs and GPU drivers. Plasma 6.7.1 also fixes a case where KWin could crash at log-in if an app requested an invalid color format.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>More details on these changes for those interested via <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kde.org\/2026\/06\/20\/this-week-in-plasma-6.7-is-here\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This Week in Plasma<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With KDE&#8217;s Plasma 6.7 desktop having released this week, more development attention is turning to feature work toward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7165,61,60,7164,7162,7161,7168,7166,7163,7167,7160,7171,80,7169,7170],"class_list":["post-509508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-desktop-linux","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-linux-benchmarking","tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","tag-linux-hardware-reviews","tag-linux-how-to","tag-linux-performance","tag-linux-server-benchmarks","tag-open-source-graphics","tag-phoronix","tag-phoronix-test-suite","tag-technology","tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","tag-ubuntu-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}