KDE Plasma 6 is out in full! (and now on EOS! Yay! )

Desktop Environments Plasma
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Does anyone knows approximate date when will eos switch/update to plasma 6?

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I think it depends on Arch?

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Indeed.

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This was what the people over at arch said yesterday:

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Would you mind providing your scripts to control the Nvidia fans or pointing me towards the literature?

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Is the bug-fix release likely to come before it goes to Extra? If not, is ignoring the plasma package group in pacman.conf the accepted way of delaying the update? Iā€™m anxious but not a glutton for punishment.

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#!/bin/bash

# Script to control the fan speed automatically

setFanSpeed() {
    nvidia-settings -a GPUFanControlState=1 -a GPUTargetFanSpeed="$1" > /dev/null
}

cleanup() {
    nvidia-settings -a GPUFanControlState=0
    exit
}

declare -i gpuTemp

# Set cleanup function (clean up and exit when interrupted)
trap cleanup 1 2 3 15 20

while true; do
    # Get NVIDIA GPU temperature
    gpuTemp=$(nvidia-settings -q gpucoretemp | grep '^  Attribute' | \
        head -n 1 | perl -pe 's/^.*?(\d+)\.\s*$/\1/;')
    echo -en "Current GPU temperature: $gpuTemp \r"

    # Set GPU fan speed
    if ((gpuTemp >= 70)); then
        setFanSpeed 90
    elif ((gpuTemp >= 65)); then
        setFanSpeed 70
    elif ((gpuTemp >= 60)); then
        setFanSpeed 65
    elif ((gpuTemp >= 55)); then
        setFanSpeed 60
    elif ((gpuTemp >= 50)); then
        setFanSpeed 45
    else
        setFanSpeed 37
    fi

    # Interval
    sleep 5
done

Here you go, change up the temps and speeds in the if statements to your desired temps and fan usage percentage. Hope this helps.

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Just to see how the experience is I setup a vm to try it out.

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Yeah i tried out the new KDE Neon version and it was nice!
a video from: The Linux Experiment shows of all new stuff.

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Youā€™re out here doing the lords work. Thank you! I am wanting to try out Wayland pretty soon and this was an issue I knew would come up.

Where did you find the variables like ā€œsetFanSpeedā€? I donā€™t see them in the nvidia-settings or nvidia-xconfig man pages.

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Iā€™d hope that by the time itā€™s out of testing, weā€™re at .1 to smoothen out some of the inevitably rough edges. Iā€™ve grown far too used to Plasma being flawlessly stable and trouble-freeā€¦ my what a long was weā€™ve come from 4.0ā€¦ **quietly rocks back and forth in a cornerā€¦ **

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I didnā€™t write the script got it off the internet somewhere, however, the arch wiki and a few forums listed the same command https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA/Tips_and_tricks#Set_fan_speed_at_login

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Beautiful, thanks again.

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I am fairly new to KDE Plasma and missed v4, but I am really hoping Nvidia and Plasma 6 Wayland can jive together a bit better. HDR is really the only thing holding me back from mainlining Linux these days. I would be cool with using an AMD GPU instead, but Iā€™m kind of a ray tracing princess, too.

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Looks and feels nice as far as I can say, canā€™t wait to see it hit the stable repos to run it on bare metal

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You should give the new experimental HDR support in plasma 6 a try then.

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Mouse/cursor doesnā€™t work in RustDesk. Otherwise seems like a decent application.

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Random question, you from the balkans?

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interesting, was just thinking about Wayland on EOS a few days ago. Willing to try!

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Just installed Kde Neon with Plasma 6 on my HP laptop for testing purpose. What can I say? Everythingā€¦kind of workedā€¦
Except everything seems slower. The worst was with the most basic features like logout, shutdown and restart. They didnā€™t work at all. I tried both Wayland and Xorg, but I didnā€™t notice any difference.

Plasma is my favourite desktop, but I have already started to think some kind of backup plan until all the bugs are fixed. Openbox is a good alternative.