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KDE Plasma Saw At Least 9 Crash Fixes This Week

([KDE] 6 Hours Ago KDE Plasma Crash Fixes)


KDE Plasma 6.6 feature development work continues winding down while Plasma 6.7 has begun seeing more feature work. This week also saw at least nine different crash fixes affecting Plasma/KWin.

This Week In Plasma is out with its latest issue for highlighting the changes merged over the past week. Some of the prominent KDE Plasma changes for the past week included:

- Plasma 6.7 is adding a new dedicated setup UI for configuring shared printers on Windows networks.

- Plasma 6.6 will now use the Meta key for desktop switching and present windows shortcuts for a more consistent behavior.

- Plasma 6.6's system monitoring code received more fixes for enhancing OpenBSD support.

- There were at least nine different crash fixes affecting Plasma and specifically KWin for a number of them. The crash fixes involved KWin crashing after periods of idleness, Plasma crashing after certain games crashed first, KWin crashing the user "frantically wiggled the pointer to try to stop a monitor from going to sleep", and more.

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- Various other bug fixes.

More details on these changes via [2]This Week in Plasma .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2026&image=plasma_9_crash_fixes_lrg

[2] https://blogs.kde.org/2026/01/24/this-week-in-plasma-fixing-all-the-things/



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