KWin Articles & Reviews |
| The Compositor Modules "COMO" To Build Wayland Compositors Have Arrived | Software | 2024-03-04 |
| Tweaking KDE's KWin For Linux Gaming Performance | Software | 2012-04-19 |
| Gaming/Graphics Performance On Unity, GNOME, KDE, Xfce | Software | 2012-02-08 |
| KDE Draws Up Plans For Wayland In 2012 | Software | 2011-08-07 |
| How Unity, Compiz, GNOME Shell & KWin Affect Performance | Software | 2011-05-30 |
| Mutter Can Cause A Gaming/OpenGL Performance Hit Too | Software | 2010-06-21 |
| KWin Can Cause A Performance Hit Too | Software | 2010-05-24 |
| Fedora 9 KDE Rawhide (2008-04-04) | Operating Systems | 2008-04-05 |
KWin Linux & Open-Source News |
| NVIDIA's Results Of Conducting Wayland vs. X.Org Latency Testing | NVIDIA | 2026-10-04 |
| KDE Plasma 6.8 Now Makes Tiled Windows Fit Together More Nicely | KDE | 2026-10-03 |
| Nearing A 10 Second Kernel Build, Xeon 600 & Other September Excitement On Phoronix | Phoronix | 2026-10-01 |
| KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta 2 Released With Union Theming Engine Maturing | KDE | 2026-09-24 |
| KDE Plasma 6.8 Seeing More Polishing & Fixes, Plasma 6.9 Begins Seeing More Activity | KDE | 2026-09-19 |
| KDE Plasma 6.8 Remote Desktop To Enjoy Lower Latency Performance | KDE | 2026-09-12 |
| KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta Released With Many Great Improvements, Kup Backup Scheduler | KDE | 2026-09-10 |
| KDE's KWin Merges Wayland Commit-Timing Protocol Support | KDE | 2026-09-08 |
| KDE Plasma 6.8 Lands Dwell Clicker Support To Improve Accessibility On Wayland | KDE | 2026-09-02 |
| KDE Plasma 6.8 Improving Performance & Efficiency For Some Full Screen Content | KDE | 2026-08-29 |
| KDE Plasma 6.8 Lands Some Enticing Performance Optimizations This Week | KDE | 2026-08-21 |
| KDE Plasma 6.8 To Allow Fine-Tuning Mouse/Touchpad Speeds | KDE | 2026-08-15 |
| KGamma2 Makes For Easy Gamma Adjustments On KDE Plasma With Wayland | KDE | 2026-08-03 |
| KDE Plasma 6.8 To Enjoy Huge Performance Gains For Multi-GPU/eGPU Performance | KDE | 2026-08-01 |
| KDE Plasma 6.8 Introducing New kscreenctl Tool | KDE | 2026-07-25 |
| KDE Plasma 6.8 System Monitor Making It Easier Assigning Processes To CPU Cores | KDE | 2026-07-18 |
| KDE KWin Introduces Support For Server-Side Drop Shadows | KDE | 2026-07-16 |
| Wayland 1.26 RC1 Released With New Event To Help Ensure Correct Pointer Coordinates | Wayland | 2026-07-09 |
| KWin Compositor In KDE Plasma 6.8 Drops Support For Desktop OpenGL | KDE | 2026-07-04 |
| KDE Plasma Affected By Arbitrary Code Execution To Break Sandboxes With "Open New Window" | KDE | 2026-07-02 |
| KDE Plasma 6.7.2 Brings Fix For Most Common KWin Crash, Better Chromium Video Playback | KDE | 2026-06-30 |
| KDE Plasma 6.7.2 To Fix KWin's Most Common Crash, Plasma 6.8 To Not Crash When Ejecting CDs | KDE | 2026-06-27 |
| KDE Plasma 6.7.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Bug Fixes | KDE | 2026-06-23 |
| KDE Plasma 6.8 Making It Easier To Configure Multi-Monitor Setups | KDE | 2026-06-20 |
| KDE Plasma 6.7 Sees Last Minute Fixes Ahead Of Next Week's Release | KDE | 2026-06-13 |
| KDE KWin Patches Aiming To Optimize Gaming Latency To Better Compete With Windows | KDE | 2026-06-10 |
| Mir 2.27 Released With More Wayland Rust Code | Wayland | 2026-06-02 |
| Plasma 6.6, 6.7 & 6.8 See Plenty Of Bug Fixing This Week | KDE | 2026-05-30 |
| KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta 2 Released With More Bug Fixes | KDE | 2026-05-28 |
| KDE Plasma 6.8 To Support System Monitor With Intel Xe, Plasma 6.7 Sees More Crash Fixes | KDE | 2026-05-23 |
| KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta Released With Plasma Big Screen, Union Modules | KDE | 2026-05-14 |
| Wine Wayland Driver Merges Pointer Warp Support | WINE | 2026-05-12 |
| KDE Plasma 6.7 To Support ICC Profiles In HDR Mode, Direct Scan-Out Improvement | KDE | 2026-05-08 |
| KDE Plasma 6.7 To Provide A Much Better Experience For CPU-Based Rendering | KDE | 2026-05-07 |
| KDE Plasma 6.6.5 Fixes Some NVIDIA Performance Issues, More Features Land For Plasma 6.7 | KDE | 2026-05-02 |
| Linux 7.0 Release, Age Verification Laws, Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 & Other April Happenings | Phoronix | 2026-05-01 |
| KDE Plasma 6.7 Ready With Wayland Session Management, Other New Improvements | KDE | 2026-04-18 |
| KDE Merges Per-Screen Virtual Desktops After 21 Years | KDE | 2026-04-14 |
| KDE's KWin Continues Working On Vulkan Support, Other Improvements For Plasma 6.7 | KDE | 2026-04-04 |
| xx-fractional-scale-v2 Aims To Improve Wayland Fractional Scaling | Wayland | 2026-03-31 |
| Intel Panther Lake & Linux AI/LLM Debates Dominated Q1 For Linux Users | Phoronix | 2026-03-31 |
| KDE Plasma 6.7 Addresses 5 Year Old Request For Easier Microphone Testing | KDE | 2026-03-28 |
| KDE's KWin Compositor Lands First Step Toward Vulkan Support | KDE | 2026-03-26 |
| NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux Driver Debuts As Stable R595 Build | NVIDIA | 2026-03-24 |
| KDE Plasma 6.7's KWin Lands Support For 3D LUTs To Help With Modern GPUs | KDE | 2026-03-21 |
| AMD Preps More Graphics Driver Code For Linux 7.1 | Radeon | 2026-03-16 |
| AMD HDR/Color Improvement For Their Linux Driver & KDE - Co-Developed By Claude Code | Radeon | 2026-03-12 |
| KDE Plasma Saw A Lot Of Bug/Crash Fixing & UI Polishing This Week | KDE | 2026-03-06 |
| KDE Plasma 6.6.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Bug Fixes | KDE | 2026-02-24 |
| KDE Plasma 6.7 Preps More Improvements While Plasma 6.6.1 Fixes Begin Accumulating | KDE | 2026-02-20 |
| KDE Plasma 6.6 Sees Last Minute Fixes, Plasma 6.7 Aims For Painless Samba Shares | KDE | 2026-02-13 |
| Plasma 6.7 Restoring The Air Plasma Theme, Fixes KWin Issue With Intense Alt+Tab'ing | KDE | 2026-01-31 |
| SonicDE Looks To Preserve & Improve The X11-Specific KDE Code | KDE | 2026-01-28 |
| KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta 2 Released For Testing | KDE | 2026-01-27 |
| KDE Plasma Saw At Least 9 Crash Fixes This Week | KDE | 2026-01-24 |
| KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta Released With Plasma Login Manager, Plasma Setup | KDE | 2026-01-13 |
| Valve's Linux Efforts, Kernel Improvements & KDE Plasma Wayland Advancements Topped 2025 | Phoronix | 2026-01-01 |
| The Death Of Clear Linux, Other Intel Linux Engineering Setbacks In 2025 | Intel | 2025-12-25 |
| KDE Plasma 6.6 Finally Supporting Ambient Light Sensors, Fixing Windows Games With HDR | KDE | 2025-12-20 |
| KDE Plasma 6.6 Will Finally Support Proper Screen Mirroring On Wayland | KDE | 2025-12-12 |
| KDE Plasma 6.6's KWin Implements RandR Emulation For Better XWayland Experience | KDE | 2025-11-29 |
| Valve-Backed Color Pipeline API For Linux Is Finally Ready For Upstream | Hardware | 2025-11-27 |
| KDE Plasma 6.6 Will Provide A Much Better Experience For High Refresh Rate Displays | KDE | 2025-11-22 |
| Plasma 6.6 Will Avoid Running Out Of RAM When Something Crashes In A Loop | KDE | 2025-11-15 |
| KDE Plasma 6.6 Shaving Off 100MB Of Memory Use, Fixing DrKonqi Crash Reporter Crashing | KDE | 2025-11-08 |
| LXQt 2.3 Released With Improved Wayland Support | Desktop | 2025-11-05 |
| Linux 6.19 Will Finally Support Intel's Adaptive Sharpness Filter "CASF" With Lunar Lake | Intel | 2025-11-04 |
| KDE Plasma 6.6 Will Cater To Windows Power Users With "winver" | KDE | 2025-10-25 |
| KDE Plasma 6.5's Overlay Planes Support Yields Significant Power Savings | KDE | 2025-10-23 |
| KDE Plasma 6.5 Is Said To Be "A Pretty Darn Good Release" | KDE | 2025-10-18 |
| KDE Plasma 6.5 Fixing Some Of The Most Common Crashes, Other Bugs Fixed Too | KDE | 2025-10-11 |
| Qt 6.10 Released With PipeWire Audio Backend & Many Other Improvements | Qt | 2025-10-07 |
| Cairo-Dock 3.6 Released With Wayland Support & HiDPI | Desktop | 2025-10-04 |
| Qt 6.10 RC Available For Testing With Native PipeWire Audio Back-End | Qt | 2025-09-23 |
| KDE Plasma 6.5 Preps Yet More Wayland Fixes & Improvements | KDE | 2025-09-20 |
| KDE Plasma 6.4.5 Released With Fix For "Extreme Stuttering" On Intel Graphics | KDE | 2025-09-09 |
| KDE Plasma 6.5 KWin Adding Support For GPU Underlays | KDE | 2025-09-06 |
| KDE Plasma 6.5 Introducing "KISS" - An Initial System Setup Wizard | KDE | 2025-08-23 |
| GNOME 49 Merges Late Mutter Change To Help Cursor Responsiveness With VRR | GNOME | 2025-08-18 |
| KDE Breeze Drops Colorful Third-Party App Icons, Plasma Adds Plug-In Device Notification | KDE | 2025-08-16 |
| AMD Posts 11th Iteration Of Color Pipeline API For Advanced Color Management On Linux | AMD | 2025-08-15 |
| NVIDIA 580 Beta Linux Driver Brings Fixes, Wayland fifo-v1 Support With Vulkan | NVIDIA | 2025-08-04 |
| KDE Plasma 6.5 Adds Notifications For Low Printer Ink Levels | KDE | 2025-07-26 |
| KDE Plasma 6.5 Brings Rounded Bottom Corners For Windows By Default | KDE | 2025-07-19 |
| KDE Preps More Crash KWin Crash Fixes, New Feature Work For Plasma 6.5 | KDE | 2025-07-12 |
| KDE Working On New Virtual Keyboard, Many Plasma Improvements Kick Off July | KDE | 2025-07-05 |
| KDE Improving Its Clock With Wayland Picture-In-Picture Protocol | KDE | 2025-06-30 |
| AMD Strix Halo, Snapdragon X & Linux Graphics Were Most Popular This Quarter | Phoronix | 2025-06-29 |
| KDE Plasma 6.4 Desktop Released With Many Fantastic Improvements | KDE | 2025-06-17 |
| KDE Prepares For Plasma 6.4 Debut With Better VRR Experience | KDE | 2025-06-07 |
| Snapdragon X Elite & AMD's Grado + Strix Halo CPUs Captured Phoronix Reader Interest In May | Phoronix | 2025-06-01 |
| KDE Plasma 6.5 Will Help Reduce RAM Use By Keeping Less Wallpaper Copies Around | KDE | 2025-05-31 |
| KDE Plasma 6.4 Beta 2 Brings XWayland Fixes | KDE | 2025-05-29 |
| Wayland ext-background-effect-v1 Merged For Background Blur Feature | Wayland | 2025-05-27 |
| KDE Plasma 6.4 Adds Time-Of-Day Wallpapers, Disabling Adaptive-Sync By Default | KDE | 2025-05-24 |
| KDE Plasma 6.4 Introducing An HDR Calibration Wizard | KDE | 2025-05-17 |
| KDE Plasma 6.4 Beta Released With Aurorae & KWin-X11 | KDE | 2025-05-15 |
| GSoC 2025 Projects: AI-Powered Log Analyzer For Fedora, Better AMD ROCm On Debian | Google | 2025-05-11 |
| KDE Plasma Will Now Make Sure Your System Doesn't Suspend When Transferring Files | KDE | 2025-05-10 |
| KDE Plasma 6.4 Tackles An 18 Year Old Feature Request, More Wayland Protocols Added | KDE | 2025-05-03 |
| Plasma LTS Releases Being Discontinued, Better KDE Telemetry Like Valve's Steam Survey | KDE | 2025-05-01 |
| Framework 13 With Strix Point, Cheap RISC-V & Linux Kernel Happenings Topped April | Phoronix | 2025-05-01 |
| Wayland Protocols 1.44 Released With Color-Representation | Wayland | 2025-04-28 |
| KDE Developers Prepare More Wayland Improvements For Plasma 6.4 | KDE | 2025-04-26 |
| KDE Preps More Wayland Improvements, Addresses Another Possible KWin Crash | KDE | 2025-04-19 |
| KDE Plasma 6.4 Lands Initial Support For The Wayland Session Restore Protocol | KDE | 2025-04-12 |
| Wayland Protocols 1.43 Released With Toplevel Tag Protocol | Wayland | 2025-04-08 |
| KDE Plasma Lands More Crash Fixes This Week, Refines Its Crash Reporting Wizard | KDE | 2025-04-05 |
| KDE Plasma 6.3.4 Now Shipping With The Latest Crash Fixes | KDE | 2025-04-02 |
| Linux Kernel Developments, AMD RX 9070 GIMP 3.0 & Other March Highlights | Phoronix | 2025-04-01 |
| Wayland Is On Track For A Very Exciting 2025 | Wayland | 2025-03-31 |
| KDE Plasma 6.3.4 To Fix The "Most Common" Crash, Other Crash Fixes Coming Too | KDE | 2025-03-29 |
| KDE KWin Lands FIFO v1 Wayland Support, GNOME 48 Squeezed In XDG Toplevel Drag v1 | KDE | 2025-03-22 |
| KDE Continues Prepping More Features For Plasma 6.4 | KDE | 2025-03-22 |
| KDE Plasma 6.4 Adding Support For P010 Formatted Videos, KWin Improving Pixel Perfection | KDE | 2025-03-15 |
| KDE's KWin Wayland & X11 Code Are Now Split, KWin_X11 To Be Maintained Until Plasma 7 | KDE | 2025-03-12 |
| KDE This Week Took Care Of "A Very Large Number Of Bugs" | KDE | 2025-03-08 |
| Linux's New Way Of Informing User-Space Over Hung GPUs May Become More Useful | Linux Kernel | 2025-03-01 |
| KDE Plasma 6.4 Preps Improvement To Help KWin Reduce Frame Drops | KDE | 2025-02-22 |
| KDE Plasma 6.3.1 Released With A Few Dozen Fixes For The Week | KDE | 2025-02-18 |
| KDE Developers Addressing Early Bugs From Plasma 6.3 | KDE | 2025-02-15 |
| KDE Plasma 6.3 Released With Improved Fractional Scaling & Other Enhancements | KDE | 2025-02-11 |
| KDE Plasma 6.3 Receives Final Polishing Prior To Release Next Week | KDE | 2025-02-08 |
| KDE Plasma 6.3: "It's Looking Pretty Good!" | KDE | 2025-02-01 |
| KDE Plasma 6.4 Begins Seeing Early Feature Work, Plasma 6.3 Sees More Fixes | KDE | 2025-01-25 |
| KDE Developers Fixing "Record Amounts Of Bugs" Following Plasma 6.3 Beta | KDE | 2025-01-18 |
| KDE Plasma 6.3 Beta Released With A Ton Of Improvements | KDE | 2025-01-09 |
| KDE Plasma 6.3 To Offer Better Night Light Mode On HDR Displays | KDE | 2025-01-08 |
| The Most Popular Linux & Open-Source News Of 2024 | Free Software | 2025-01-01 |
| Wayland's Wild 2024 With Better KDE Plasma Support, NVIDIA Maturity & More Desktops | Wayland | 2024-12-31 |
| KDE Enjoyed A Stellar 2024 With The Debut Of The Plasma 6 Desktop | KDE | 2024-12-26 |
| Intel Linux Performance Optimizations & Intel's Other Open-Source Wins From 2024 | Intel | 2024-12-26 |
| KDE Plasma 6.3 Delivers Much Better Fractional Scaling, Clipboard Using SQLite | KDE | 2024-12-14 |
| KDE Starts December By Landing A Number Of New Features | KDE | 2024-12-07 |
| Wayland Color Management Protocol Might Finally Be Close To Merging | Wayland | 2024-11-30 |
| KDE Ends November With More KWin Fixes & Other Polishing Ahead Of Plasma 6.3 | KDE | 2024-11-30 |
| KDE Plasma 6.3 Sees More Feature Work, One More Crash Fix For KWin | KDE | 2024-11-23 |
| KDE Developers Spent The Week Fixing Bugs & Polishing | KDE | 2024-11-16 |
| KDE's Info Center Now Shows Multi-GPU Information, Plasma 6.3 Bringing UI Refinements | KDE | 2024-11-09 |
| LXQt 2.1 Released With New Wayland Session Component | Desktop | 2024-11-05 |
| KDE Will Nicely Notify You When Apps Are Being Killed Due To Out-Of-Memory | KDE | 2024-11-02 |
| KDE Plasma 6.3 To Improve XWayland Window Resizing | KDE | 2024-10-28 |
| KDE Fixing Many Bugs, Prepping New Plasma 6.3 Features | KDE | 2024-10-26 |
| KDE Plasma 6.2 Released With More Desktop Polishing | KDE | 2024-10-08 |
| KDE Plasma 6.2 Preparing For Release Next Week | KDE | 2024-10-05 |
| KDE Sees Many Crash Fixes & Other Improvements Ahead Of Plasma 6.2 | KDE | 2024-09-28 |
| KDE Releases Plasma 6.2 Beta, Early Feature Work Begins For Plasma 6.3 | KDE | 2024-09-14 |
| KDE Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 Brings New Capabilities | KDE | 2024-09-12 |
| Wayland Protocols 1.37 Introduces Three New Protocols | Wayland | 2024-08-31 |
| KDE Lands Per-Monitor Brightness Controls & Better KWin HDR Tone Mapping | KDE | 2024-08-24 |
