KDE Plasma 6.5 Finally Adds Automatic Day/Night Theme Switching
([KDE] 6 Hours Ago
Global Theme Switching)
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- News link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Theme-Day-Night-Auto-Switch
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KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly report on the interesting Plasma desktop changes for the week. This week a long-sought feature for the Plasma desktop was finally merged.
KDE Plasma 6.5 is able to automatically switch to a different Global Theme at night. There is now the ability with Plasma to automatically switch the desktop theme during day/night-time hours!
KDE Plasma 6.5 also now allows setting a Global Theme from the KDE System Settings "Quick Settings" area.
Plasma 6.5 is also bringing more Wayland fixes/enhancements such as files opened from KRunner in an already-running app will now raise that app window as expected. Plasma on Wayland with the Orca screen reader is also now able to read out changes to the Caps Lock state.
Plasma 6.5 will also allow hibernating the system from the SDDM log-in screen.
Two cases of possible Plasma crash fixes around the KDE Activities functionality have been fixed too for Plasma 6.5. Plus a variety of other fixes have been prepped too, including for the Qt 6.8.4 toolkit to avoid excessively consuming CPU resources when locking or turning off the screen.
More details on the KDE Plasma changes merged this week via [1]Nate Graham's blog .
[1] https://blogs.kde.org/2025/08/02/this-week-in-plasma-day/night-theme-switching/
KDE Plasma 6.5 is able to automatically switch to a different Global Theme at night. There is now the ability with Plasma to automatically switch the desktop theme during day/night-time hours!
KDE Plasma 6.5 also now allows setting a Global Theme from the KDE System Settings "Quick Settings" area.
Plasma 6.5 is also bringing more Wayland fixes/enhancements such as files opened from KRunner in an already-running app will now raise that app window as expected. Plasma on Wayland with the Orca screen reader is also now able to read out changes to the Caps Lock state.
Plasma 6.5 will also allow hibernating the system from the SDDM log-in screen.
Two cases of possible Plasma crash fixes around the KDE Activities functionality have been fixed too for Plasma 6.5. Plus a variety of other fixes have been prepped too, including for the Qt 6.8.4 toolkit to avoid excessively consuming CPU resources when locking or turning off the screen.
More details on the KDE Plasma changes merged this week via [1]Nate Graham's blog .
[1] https://blogs.kde.org/2025/08/02/this-week-in-plasma-day/night-theme-switching/
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