KDE Plasma 6.5.4 released!

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Wow, am I the first one recognized the KDE update? :wink:

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Works great so far. :slight_smile:

Plasma 6.5.4 complete changelog - KDE Community

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Just got it! :victory_hand:

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HURRY UP! UPDATE!!

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It’s only a bug-killer release, no additional features. Still, updated, rebooted… smooth as silk.

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Successfully installed, better blur rebuilt and working. All seems good.

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Maybe there’s a new bug :wink: My mirrors haven’t caught up yet.

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Where can I enable blur? Do I need to install a plasmoid? Didn’t find that yet …

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Mine didn’t either. I updated Arch mirrors with

reflector --protocol https --verbose --latest 25 --sort rate | sudo tee /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Then I checked for updates and Plasma 6.5.4 was available.

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We’re in the same boat :sweat_smile:

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I clone from here and build manually. I believe it’s also available in the AUR (kwin-effects-forceblur-git) and you can enable in desktop effects better blur. Also disable blur. In both cases it will need to be rebuilt when Plasma updates.

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Just started my PC and Arch-Update searched for updates. 58 updates were available including KDE Plasma 6.5.4. :thinking:

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Thanks, will try that. :slight_smile:

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@DenalB , In addition to @MyNameIsRichard answer.
This is the package name for better blur in AUR:
kwin-effects-forceblur

I just got the update as well :slight_smile: .

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Seems so :wink:

Thanks for pointing to :tada:

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There will be a series of KDE updates over the next few days. In addition to the plasma updates, both Gear and Frameworks are also doing releases this week.

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Thanks for the reminder about kwin-effects-forceblur, guys! I forgot all about it.

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Just so you know, the kwin-effects-forceblur repository has now been archived.
There is however a maintained fork with additional features…
kwin-effects-glass

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Thanks for the heads-up. I’ll need to switch up.

EDIT:
No AUR package. Gonna try this (directions from the GitHub page)…

git clone https://github.com/taj-ny/kwin-effects-glass
cd kwin-effects-glass
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
make -j$(nproc)
sudo make install
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I was just about to ask about this and was searching for info, thanks :+1:

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Thanks. Now I need to turn on back my machine :sweat_smile:

Edit:

Okay, I’ll do it over the weekend :laughing:

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