The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 6.1.1 as the first of five point releases to the latest KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop environment series to fix some of the issues reported by users.
KDE Plasma 6.1.1 is here only a week after KDE Plasma 6.1 to fix several bugs, including the bug where desktop files dragged to another screen in a multi-monitor setup disappeared until the Plasma session was restarted. This issue could also cause Plasma to crash when dragging files from the desktop to some folders in the Dolphin file manager, so this is now fixed as well.
It also fixes issues with the Cube effect to open reliability, the Zoom effect and ICC color profiles to be better compatible, the Shake Cursor effect to work as expected with every global animation speed, and the Glide effect, which suffered a visual regression.
Support for XWayland apps has been improved as well in KDE Plasma 6.1.1 so that they no longer freeze after slowly resizing their windows, especially when using a scaling factor.
Moreover, KDE Plasma 6.1’s first point release improves the new zoomed-out Edit Mode to prevent a Plasma crash when moving non-center-aligned panels to a different screen edge. It also improves support for Plasma widgets dragged while in the new zoomed-out Edit Mode to connect to the pointer, as expected.
Among other noteworthy changes, KDE Plasma 6.1.1 fixes a visual regression with Plasma Discover’s “still looking” busy indicator when performing a search after launching the app and fixes a visual glitch with the text in the center System Monitor’s pie charts to no longer overflow when it’s very long.
On top of that, KDE Plasma 6.1.1 improves the Region & Language page in System Settings to display the correct paper size for users using Metric units with the US Letter paper size (e.g. Canada), and adds support for waking up a sleeping screen using a stylus.
Last but not least, this release fixes a bug that could break the point when it’s moved right after the screen locks to make the screen unlock immediately and improves the robustness of the screen locker against failure in a few more cases.
Check out the full changelog for more details about the issues fixed in this first KDE Plasma 6.1 update. Meanwhile, keep an eye on the stable software repositories for the KDE Plasma 6.1.1 packages and update your installations as soon as they’re available for a better Plasma desktop experience.
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