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This morning I did get #kde #plasma #wayland up and running, had first fight with #sddm , this for my old monitors had really big colour difference, one darker and a grey/yellow taint. So I thought one of the monitors was breaking down, I spent weeks to looks for what next and spent money on new monitors. I have the same issue, so I decided to switch #Xorg for wayland, sure the issue is till there... and gosh wayland ain't the best on handling sessions IMHO, as which VT seems to be a bit randomish, you are stuck with "Switch User" and gosh it's SLOW like hell and easy to make plasmashell to crash on a session you are switching to. sddm don't allow you to specify the VTs you want to use, not even which VT to start with.

Plasma had the nice feature where you could scale old #X11 applications that don't have built in scaling, but then it would affect all X11 applications, this should have been a Special Window/Application rule, then it had been a lot more useful. Enabling #HDR , it works just for one monitor.

When #plasmashell crashes when you try to switch back, the view port seems to change to something a lot smaller. I can't get #yakuake to appear (either it's for it's far outside the view port or shift-f12 don't work when plasmashell wyaland crashes (in Xorg it works and the view is still full resolution).

It feels like everyone nowadays only develops a single user experience, desktop manager that can't handle multiple session (darn I miss #KDM , best ever desktop manager), desktop environments just don't handle that they aren't active. Multi monitor setups is nowadays a lot more experimental than it was in the 1990's.

As my main issue didn't get solved, I will revert back to Xorg and get a bit more stability. Maybe there will come something better to replace wayland, once in the time I was enthusiastic about it, but with time I just think it's just been a waste of time which could have been spent on gutting out all the old in Xorg and add new features.