xrender is software rendering. It should almost always be slower.
Some of the KDE highlights…
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Support in Plasma 5.23 to be able to specify an alternative accent color that is different than the one supplied by the desktop theme’s color scheme.
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Plasma 5.22.4+ paired with the NVIDIA 470 series Linux driver and newer will no longer have an XWayland app window displaying vertically mirrored or blacked-out content.
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Multi-screen layouts are now retained across X11 and Wayland sessions with Plasma 5.23.
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Dolphin will launch faster on Plasma 5.23.
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KDE Frameworks 5.86 fixes “two substantial memory leaks” that impact Plasma and its widgets.
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When rotating the screen with the Plasma 5.23 Wayland session according to a device’s orientation sensor, there is now an animated transition between the rotations.
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Various fixes to the Dolphin file manager and Spectacle.
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Such DYEURS COLOURES!
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Finally a reason to test it on bare metal again.
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Yes, KDE has had so many issues with multiple screens. Good to see they are focusing on it. There is still an outstanding bug report on multi-screens with different resolutions causing the app menu from right clicking to show up on the other screen when using on anything from the desktop. 
Scnr 
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Turkey version : 
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KDE Gear 21.08 Gets First Point Release with Bug Fixes for Dolphin, Elisa, and Spectacle
KDE Gear 21.08.1 is here only three weeks after the release of the KDE Gear 21.08 software suite to fix various bugs and annoyances in the Dolphin, Elisa, Spectacle, Konsole, Skanlite, KAlarm, Kate, Kdenlive, KMail, KolourPaint, KOrganizer, and Okular apps, as well as several core components.
KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.86.0.
KDE Frameworks are 83 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms. For an introduction see the KDE Frameworks release announcement.
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KDE Plasma 5.23 “25th Anniversary Edition” Enters Public Beta Testing, Here’s What’s New
“Plasma 25th Anniversary Edition is a leap forward in the quest for a more performant and usable desktop. We have improved the speed and stability of Plasma, while including changes that make it easier to use both on desktop and touch-enabled devices,” said the KDE Project.
This week in KDE: so many Wayland improvements, and more!
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What’s new in KDE Plasma 5.24
It took a little longer than usual, but article this week’s on what’s to come for the KDE world was released this weekend. The title of the post alone tells you a lot: “Plasma in progress”. So this means that Plasma 5.23 beta is now available, and in the list of new features that have advanced today there are many changes that will come in the next major release, namely in Plasma 5.24. One of them concerns the accent color that can be chosen. So, the KDE project starts to focus on the new features of Plasma 5.24 which already has many new features as you can see below.
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Very small tweak, but got to admit, Plasma looks ugly when rebooting and a secondary monitor is connected. Glad they fixed it! Another thing i’ve noticed is that windows reposition properly finally when disconnecting an external monitor!
KWin now allows you to optionally set a global keyboard shortcut to move a window to the center of the screen (Plasma 5.24).
One of the best updates ever!! I’ll be able to remove the script to accomplish the same thing now!!
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