Manual intervention needed with upgrading to Plasma 6.4

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When you upgrade to Plasma 6.4, if you want to have X11 support, you need to install plasma-x11-session after/during updating but before rebooting.

You can do this in a single command with sudo pacman -Syu plasma-x11-session or yay -Syu plasma-x11-session.

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Did exactly this, was greeted by a wayland session, had to relogin with x11, but everything was fine afterwards. The warning via Mastodon saved my but!

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Is an updated ISO planned to include both kwin, kwin-x11, and plasma-x11-session?

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We will hotfix the existing ISO and it will be included in the next.

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With the firmware changes and the Nvidia driver install issues, looks like a new ISO is coming sooner rather than later? :innocent:

Arch Linux certainly keeps system builders on their toes! :rofl:

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Hi dalto,
as far as I know I use Wayland and I’m not aware of using x11.

To check if I’m right how can I verify that there is no x11 on my system?

Thank you in advance.

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You can check it with

echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
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It appears clearly only wayland. This means no x11 around and nothing to take care of for me, right?

[petermb@EndeavourOSNeo-Machine ~]$ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
wayland
[petermb@EndeavourOSNeo-Machine ~]$
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If you are sure you never want to switch to X11, no further action is required.

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Hey kde1,
why should I.
Since I installed EOS I never had another display manager than wayland and as Arch and with it EOS is changing to wayland away from x11 I don’t think I will last to long until x11 disapears in Arch.

What do you suggest?

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Plasma and Gnome are not the only DE’s in town, and the others have not adapted to Wayland quite as well yet. X11 will be around for awhile, just not in the forefront. The thing about old tech, you don’t need it until you do. :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

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Had no problems when updating and in 1,5 years no need for x11. So will not switch to x11 in EOS as since I installed it it was and is Wayland. So I will have an eye on it not to switch to x11. :wink:

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A post was merged into an existing topic: Linux-firmware >= 20250613.12fe085f-5 upgrade requires manual intervention

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So Wayland should be fine? Only X.org/X11 are impacted?

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Yes. If you’re using Wayland now, you’ll still be using Wayland after the upgrade. You can confirm that you’re still using Wayland by running this command:

echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE

Yes. Users of X11 will find after the upgrade that they are using Wayland. They can return to X11 simply by running this command and rebooting:

sudo pacman -Syu plasma-x11-session

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However, installing plasma-x11-session doesn’t automatically switch the system from Wayland to X11, but simply provides the option to switch (as it was given before). In other words, Wayland users can also install it to have the option to switch back in case of an emergency.

But it’s possible that users who previously used X11 and were now forced to switch will automatically switch back after installing the package, because the corresponding information may still be stored in the system.

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Works great for me :slight_smile:
Thanks !

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For newcomers, use this command first before you update to check the latest news.

yay -Pww