Fixed a bug that could make screens that powered down in an unusual way get stuck at 30% brightness (or a similarly low level) when they woke up again. (Jakob Petsovits👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523988
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Plasma 6.8.2
Fixed three cases where Discover could crash while checking for updates. (Aleix Pol Gonzalez👇
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/-/merge_requests/1446
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/-/merge_requests/1447
Fixed a regression that made notifications inappropriately appear in the top-left corner of the primary screen when configured to follow the Notifications widget while the only Notifications widget was located on a different screen. (Sven Muckl👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525536
Fixed a regression caused by a Qt change that made text in the Icons and Text Task Manager widget elide too early. (Nate Graham👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=526972
Fixed an issue that made remote desktop sessions occasionally fail to start from Flatpak apps. (Matteo Beretta👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527555
The setting to remember the active keyboard layout on a per-application basis now works on Wayland the way it did on X11. (Marián Kadaňka👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452445
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476831
Fixed a regression that made the Digital Clock widget only respect some OpenType features in the font it’s using, rather than all of them. (Niccolò Venerandi👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524257
Fixed a small bug that requires clicking the “Exit Edit Mode” button twice after the first time you entered Edit Mode after logging in. (Niccolò Venerandi👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527738
Plasma now displays HTML tags containing single-quotes correctly in notifications. (Niccolò Venerandi👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=506733
The “Picture of the Day” wallpaper’s preview thumbnail now reflects the final appearance on the desktop, taking into account the chosen scaling/cropping mode. (Niccolò Venerandi👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505690
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Plasma 6.8.3
Fixed a regression that made Plasma crash when opening the launcher widget with a keyboard shortcut on systems with a combined total of screens, virtual desktops, and activities greater than 16. (Mauricio Šmit👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527810
Fixed a regression that made panels cloned onto other screens forget which screen they lived on and move over to the primary screen. Unfortunately this does not fix the issue for panels that already moved around; you’ll have to move them back yourself. But it does fix the issue for newly-cloned panels. (Méven Car👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527445
Fixed a regression caused by a Qt change that made many tooltips throughout Plasma lose their styling. (Filip Fila👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527730
The tooltip in Info Center’s energy usage graph now shows the correct year, rather than a year 57 years in the future! (Shehriyar Qureshi👇
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kinfocenter/-/merge_requests/321
Battery charge limits you’ve configured are now mentioned in the Power & Battery widget only for the batteries they affect, and not — for example — for any Bluetooth mice and headsets’ batteries shown there. (Niccolò Venerandi👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448020
The desktop context menu’s “New Folder” menu item now shows its keyboard shortcut as expected. (Niccolò Venerandi👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473045
Fixed a fairly obscure bug that would make un-favorited apps in launcher menus become favorites again after a restart under certain conditions. (Christoph Wolk👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527651
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Plasma 6.9
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523988
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Plasma 6.8.2
Fixed three cases where Discover could crash while checking for updates. (Aleix Pol Gonzalez👇
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/-/merge_requests/1446
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/-/merge_requests/1447
Fixed a regression that made notifications inappropriately appear in the top-left corner of the primary screen when configured to follow the Notifications widget while the only Notifications widget was located on a different screen. (Sven Muckl👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525536
Fixed a regression caused by a Qt change that made text in the Icons and Text Task Manager widget elide too early. (Nate Graham👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=526972
Fixed an issue that made remote desktop sessions occasionally fail to start from Flatpak apps. (Matteo Beretta👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527555
The setting to remember the active keyboard layout on a per-application basis now works on Wayland the way it did on X11. (Marián Kadaňka👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452445
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476831
Fixed a regression that made the Digital Clock widget only respect some OpenType features in the font it’s using, rather than all of them. (Niccolò Venerandi👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524257
Fixed a small bug that requires clicking the “Exit Edit Mode” button twice after the first time you entered Edit Mode after logging in. (Niccolò Venerandi👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527738
Plasma now displays HTML tags containing single-quotes correctly in notifications. (Niccolò Venerandi👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=506733
The “Picture of the Day” wallpaper’s preview thumbnail now reflects the final appearance on the desktop, taking into account the chosen scaling/cropping mode. (Niccolò Venerandi👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505690
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Plasma 6.8.3
Fixed a regression that made Plasma crash when opening the launcher widget with a keyboard shortcut on systems with a combined total of screens, virtual desktops, and activities greater than 16. (Mauricio Šmit👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527810
Fixed a regression that made panels cloned onto other screens forget which screen they lived on and move over to the primary screen. Unfortunately this does not fix the issue for panels that already moved around; you’ll have to move them back yourself. But it does fix the issue for newly-cloned panels. (Méven Car👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527445
Fixed a regression caused by a Qt change that made many tooltips throughout Plasma lose their styling. (Filip Fila👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527730
The tooltip in Info Center’s energy usage graph now shows the correct year, rather than a year 57 years in the future! (Shehriyar Qureshi👇
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kinfocenter/-/merge_requests/321
Battery charge limits you’ve configured are now mentioned in the Power & Battery widget only for the batteries they affect, and not — for example — for any Bluetooth mice and headsets’ batteries shown there. (Niccolò Venerandi👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448020
The desktop context menu’s “New Folder” menu item now shows its keyboard shortcut as expected. (Niccolò Venerandi👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473045
Fixed a fairly obscure bug that would make un-favorited apps in launcher menus become favorites again after a restart under certain conditions. (Christoph Wolk👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527651
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Plasma 6.9
Fixed an issue that occasionally broke the display of window thumbnails in the Task Manager widget’s tooltips. (Zhongli Wu👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524881
System Settings’ sidebar now respects the use of transparency in your color scheme or application style. (Christoph Wolk👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507622
Fixed a glitch in the desktop’s selection rectangle that could make it reset its origin point if you deleted items using the keyboard while still dragging the rectangle using the pointer. (Christoph Wolk👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=526073
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Notable in performance & technical
Plasma 6.6.8
Fixed the Astronomy Picture of the Day wallpaper after it broke following a data change on NASA’s side. (Anuj Dhavalikar👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=526447
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Plasma 6.8.2
Fixed a regression that significantly degraded game performance. (Xaver Hugl👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527628
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Plasma 6.9
The image upscaling filter used in KWin’s Zoom effect now has a substantially lower performance impact. (Oliver Schramm👇
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/9992
Plasma now automatically cleans up stale entries for desktop file and folder positions in its config file, preventing the file from growing to a massive size over time and slowing down Plasma in a variety of ways. (Akseli Lahtinen👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469445
KRunner’s browser bookmark search feature now works with modern versions of Firefox (and its forks) that store their configuration data in ~/.config. Note that this fix only affects non-Flatpak packaging; more work will be needed to add support for Flatpak packaging. (Méven Car👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=519712
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Frameworks 6.32
A major data integrity bug has been fixed at long last: progress indicators moving or copying files to an external disk are now fully accurate! Read more about it on Méven’s KDE blog. (Méven Car👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281270
https://blogs.kde.org/2026/10/27/fixing-kio-copy-to-usb-stick-and-network-filesystems/
Moving or copying files over locally-mounted network shares is now substantially faster. (Méven Car👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=458001
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524881
System Settings’ sidebar now respects the use of transparency in your color scheme or application style. (Christoph Wolk👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507622
Fixed a glitch in the desktop’s selection rectangle that could make it reset its origin point if you deleted items using the keyboard while still dragging the rectangle using the pointer. (Christoph Wolk👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=526073
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Notable in performance & technical
Plasma 6.6.8
Fixed the Astronomy Picture of the Day wallpaper after it broke following a data change on NASA’s side. (Anuj Dhavalikar👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=526447
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Plasma 6.8.2
Fixed a regression that significantly degraded game performance. (Xaver Hugl👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527628
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Plasma 6.9
The image upscaling filter used in KWin’s Zoom effect now has a substantially lower performance impact. (Oliver Schramm👇
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/9992
Plasma now automatically cleans up stale entries for desktop file and folder positions in its config file, preventing the file from growing to a massive size over time and slowing down Plasma in a variety of ways. (Akseli Lahtinen👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469445
KRunner’s browser bookmark search feature now works with modern versions of Firefox (and its forks) that store their configuration data in ~/.config. Note that this fix only affects non-Flatpak packaging; more work will be needed to add support for Flatpak packaging. (Méven Car👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=519712
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Frameworks 6.32
A major data integrity bug has been fixed at long last: progress indicators moving or copying files to an external disk are now fully accurate! Read more about it on Méven’s KDE blog. (Méven Car👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281270
https://blogs.kde.org/2026/10/27/fixing-kio-copy-to-usb-stick-and-network-filesystems/
Moving or copying files over locally-mounted network shares is now substantially faster. (Méven Car👇
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=458001
KDE Blogs
This Week in Plasma: An Avalanche of Performance Improvements and Bug Fixes
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!
This week the Plasma team continued to polish up Plasma 6.8, fixing many bugs. Most of the regressions reported in Plasma 6.8 have been resolved now, so the team moved onto older bugs and squashed a very large…
This week the Plasma team continued to polish up Plasma 6.8, fixing many bugs. Most of the regressions reported in Plasma 6.8 have been resolved now, so the team moved onto older bugs and squashed a very large…
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 Brings Nice Improvements For Linux Gamers On Latest NVIDIA Drivers
https://www.phoronix.com/news/DXVK-NVAPI-0.9.3
Written by Michael Larabel
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 is out this weekend as a new feature update to this NVIDIA NVAPI implementation used by Valve as part of Steam Play with Proton for nicely integrating NVIDIA technologies into various Windows games running on Linux.
With DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 is now support for Opacity Micromaps "OMM" as part of Microsoft's DirectX Raytracing (DXR 1.2+) via NVAPI. With the NVIDIA R615 Linux driver or newer and VKD3D-Proton 3.1, this allows leveraging the Opacity Micromaps feature of DXR for speeding up ray-tracing through alpha-tested and semi-transparent geometry.
Those curious about Opacity Micromaps with DXR can learn more via this Microsoft dev blog.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/omm/
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 also brings an alternative NVIDIA Reflex implementation for Vulkan games using the VK_NV_low_latency revision 2 extension. This also benefits those on the NVIDIA R615 driver or newer and using this implementation makes the DXVK-NVAPI Vulkan layer obsolete.
The updated DXVK-NVAPI also supports new driver settings found in NVIDIA R610 and R615 drivers, improves reporting of available/free VRAM, and supports compiling for ARM64.
More details on DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 via GitHub.
https://github.com/jp7677/dxvk-nvapi/releases/tag/v0.9.3
https://www.phoronix.com/news/DXVK-NVAPI-0.9.3
Written by Michael Larabel
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 is out this weekend as a new feature update to this NVIDIA NVAPI implementation used by Valve as part of Steam Play with Proton for nicely integrating NVIDIA technologies into various Windows games running on Linux.
With DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 is now support for Opacity Micromaps "OMM" as part of Microsoft's DirectX Raytracing (DXR 1.2+) via NVAPI. With the NVIDIA R615 Linux driver or newer and VKD3D-Proton 3.1, this allows leveraging the Opacity Micromaps feature of DXR for speeding up ray-tracing through alpha-tested and semi-transparent geometry.
Those curious about Opacity Micromaps with DXR can learn more via this Microsoft dev blog.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/omm/
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 also brings an alternative NVIDIA Reflex implementation for Vulkan games using the VK_NV_low_latency revision 2 extension. This also benefits those on the NVIDIA R615 driver or newer and using this implementation makes the DXVK-NVAPI Vulkan layer obsolete.
The updated DXVK-NVAPI also supports new driver settings found in NVIDIA R610 and R615 drivers, improves reporting of available/free VRAM, and supports compiling for ARM64.
More details on DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 via GitHub.
https://github.com/jp7677/dxvk-nvapi/releases/tag/v0.9.3
Phoronix
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 Brings Nice Improvements For Linux Gamers On Latest NVIDIA Drivers
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 is out this weekend as a new feature update to this NVIDIA NVAPI implementation used by Valve as part of Steam Play with Proton for nicely integrating NVIDIA technologies into various Windows games running on Linux.
Linux mint Monthly News – October 2026
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=5093
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Hello everyone,
Before we start with the news, I’d like to thank all the people who support this project. Your help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
As always, please note that the features presented below are a preview. They’re still being worked on and are planned for the next version of Linux Mint.
Sleep Modes
When you close the lid of your laptop, it goes into a sleep mode called “Suspend”. This mode is very useful. It’s well supported, fast and reliable, but it has a major limitation: It uses power.
A good laptop with a full battery can sleep for 2 or 3 days, but eventually the battery runs out. When it does, the outcome is worse than a normal shutdown. The session is gone, and the battery is empty.
Unfortunately, this happens often because the typical use case for Suspend is that you’re done using the laptop and you want to go and do something else. Closing the lid is fast. Looking for the power cable isn’t. And the computer looks like it’s OFF, so you might not even think about it.
This is where “Hibernation” comes into play. Hibernation saves the session to disk and completely shuts down the computer. No power is used. When you reopen the lid, the session is as it was and so is the battery.
Unlike Suspend, though, Hibernation is slow. It can take longer than a reboot to hibernate and resume the computer.
Hibernation is also hard to set up. It doesn’t work out of the box and requires a large amount of swap space on disk. Ubuntu actually decided to remove it from the available sleep modes, so it was usually not available in Linux Mint.
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We’re bringing it back.
We added a page in the System Administration tool dedicated to Sleep Modes.
This page makes it easy to enable Hibernation and to set it up correctly.
We also took the opportunity to add support for Hybrid Sleep and Suspend-then-Hibernate.
Hybrid Sleep suspends the computer but also saves the session to disk. If the battery runs out, you need to find the power cable, but you can resume the session.
As the name suggests, Suspend-then-Hibernate suspends the computer but when the battery level goes critical, it hibernates it.
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Nemo Preview Pane
The file manager got a preview pane.
You can toggle it with F7 or by clicking the button in the status bar.
The preview pane supports audio, pictures and videos.
It also shows information about the selected media. For instance, in the screenshot above you can see when the picture was taken, and with which camera.
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Superlight
Superlight is a new application whose purpose is to monitor the state of the system.
It shows graphs for CPU and RAM usage, but also SWAP, GPU, Network, Disk I/O, Temperature and Fan Speed.
On its App page, you can see what’s running on the computer and how much of the system’s resources each application is using.
You can also see the same data for all the running processes.
You can choose from a large variety of columns, and sort them or reorder them any way you like. All of this is remembered by Superlight.
If you have a battery, you can see its status, all the information related to it, and a history of charge level and power input/output.
The Storage page shows how much space is used on your disks and what’s using it.
You start with a general breakdown. If you click on Files, you can browse and see which folders and files take up the most space.
If you click on Steam, Superlight shows you which games take up space.
And the same goes for Flatpak.
Superlight makes it easy to see what’s taking up resources on your computer.
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Velocitty
Velocitty is a new terminal application. It’s really simple to use and packed with great features.
Like Ghostty and Ptyxis, it comes with a tab overview:
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=5093
If you enjoy the awesome work Linux mint are doing in the Linux space consider donating!
https://www.linuxmint.com/donors.php
Hello everyone,
Before we start with the news, I’d like to thank all the people who support this project. Your help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
As always, please note that the features presented below are a preview. They’re still being worked on and are planned for the next version of Linux Mint.
Sleep Modes
When you close the lid of your laptop, it goes into a sleep mode called “Suspend”. This mode is very useful. It’s well supported, fast and reliable, but it has a major limitation: It uses power.
A good laptop with a full battery can sleep for 2 or 3 days, but eventually the battery runs out. When it does, the outcome is worse than a normal shutdown. The session is gone, and the battery is empty.
Unfortunately, this happens often because the typical use case for Suspend is that you’re done using the laptop and you want to go and do something else. Closing the lid is fast. Looking for the power cable isn’t. And the computer looks like it’s OFF, so you might not even think about it.
This is where “Hibernation” comes into play. Hibernation saves the session to disk and completely shuts down the computer. No power is used. When you reopen the lid, the session is as it was and so is the battery.
Unlike Suspend, though, Hibernation is slow. It can take longer than a reboot to hibernate and resume the computer.
Hibernation is also hard to set up. It doesn’t work out of the box and requires a large amount of swap space on disk. Ubuntu actually decided to remove it from the available sleep modes, so it was usually not available in Linux Mint.
///////////////////////////////////////
We’re bringing it back.
We added a page in the System Administration tool dedicated to Sleep Modes.
This page makes it easy to enable Hibernation and to set it up correctly.
We also took the opportunity to add support for Hybrid Sleep and Suspend-then-Hibernate.
Hybrid Sleep suspends the computer but also saves the session to disk. If the battery runs out, you need to find the power cable, but you can resume the session.
As the name suggests, Suspend-then-Hibernate suspends the computer but when the battery level goes critical, it hibernates it.
///////////////////////////////////////
Nemo Preview Pane
The file manager got a preview pane.
You can toggle it with F7 or by clicking the button in the status bar.
The preview pane supports audio, pictures and videos.
It also shows information about the selected media. For instance, in the screenshot above you can see when the picture was taken, and with which camera.
///////////////////////////////////////
Superlight
Superlight is a new application whose purpose is to monitor the state of the system.
It shows graphs for CPU and RAM usage, but also SWAP, GPU, Network, Disk I/O, Temperature and Fan Speed.
On its App page, you can see what’s running on the computer and how much of the system’s resources each application is using.
You can also see the same data for all the running processes.
You can choose from a large variety of columns, and sort them or reorder them any way you like. All of this is remembered by Superlight.
If you have a battery, you can see its status, all the information related to it, and a history of charge level and power input/output.
The Storage page shows how much space is used on your disks and what’s using it.
You start with a general breakdown. If you click on Files, you can browse and see which folders and files take up the most space.
If you click on Steam, Superlight shows you which games take up space.
And the same goes for Flatpak.
Superlight makes it easy to see what’s taking up resources on your computer.
///////////////////////////////////////
Velocitty
Velocitty is a new terminal application. It’s really simple to use and packed with great features.
Like Ghostty and Ptyxis, it comes with a tab overview:
The Linux Mint Blog
Monthly News – October 2026
Hello everyone,
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And it can be themed with palettes:
Just like in Firefox, you can reorder tabs within a window, move them from one terminal window to another, or even detach a tab into a new window.
You can choose which shell to run and specify a startup command. Here’s Velocitty configured to use fish and run fastfetch at startup:
Paths can be shortened in the preferences. For instance, here’s /var/lib/dpkg/info shortened to just info in the tab name and …/lib/dpkg/info in the prompt.
The color of the tab changes when something is going on. Red for superuser (root, sudo, pkexec, etc.), blue for remote sessions (ssh, sftp, etc.), and a lighter shade for running processes.
And tabs can be customized. You can give them a name, a color, a command to run and decide if you want them to automatically open when you launch Velocitty.
Clicking the little bookmark icon opens up all your custom tabs.
So whatever you’re working on, your projects and SSH sessions are always really easy to access.
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Unfold
Unfold is a small archive manager designed to be as simple and easy to use as possible.
It supports basic operations such as viewing, creating and extracting archives.
It uses 7zip and 7zip-RAR and it’s compatible with all the encryption formats they support, including password-protected ones.
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Other News
Xenity is a fork of Zenity 3.44 (GTK3), with the same features, the same look and the same syntax. It was added to the Mint 22.x and LMDE 7 repositories, and all Cinnamon spices which used Zenity were migrated to Xenity.
The Community Website was written years ago. It used PHP and allowed people to create accounts with a login and password. Following the recent discovery of critical vulnerabilities in PHP, we decided to rewrite it from scratch and reduce the amount of sensitive data stored in our database. It no longer uses PHP and it no longer stores or uses passwords. Authentication is now handled by GitHub. When you sign in, the Community Website gets the following data from GitHub: your username, your email address, and your avatar. If your email address matches the email associated with an existing account, that account is merged into the new one.
Just like in Firefox, you can reorder tabs within a window, move them from one terminal window to another, or even detach a tab into a new window.
You can choose which shell to run and specify a startup command. Here’s Velocitty configured to use fish and run fastfetch at startup:
Paths can be shortened in the preferences. For instance, here’s /var/lib/dpkg/info shortened to just info in the tab name and …/lib/dpkg/info in the prompt.
The color of the tab changes when something is going on. Red for superuser (root, sudo, pkexec, etc.), blue for remote sessions (ssh, sftp, etc.), and a lighter shade for running processes.
And tabs can be customized. You can give them a name, a color, a command to run and decide if you want them to automatically open when you launch Velocitty.
Clicking the little bookmark icon opens up all your custom tabs.
So whatever you’re working on, your projects and SSH sessions are always really easy to access.
///////////////////////////////////////
Unfold
Unfold is a small archive manager designed to be as simple and easy to use as possible.
It supports basic operations such as viewing, creating and extracting archives.
It uses 7zip and 7zip-RAR and it’s compatible with all the encryption formats they support, including password-protected ones.
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Other News
Xenity is a fork of Zenity 3.44 (GTK3), with the same features, the same look and the same syntax. It was added to the Mint 22.x and LMDE 7 repositories, and all Cinnamon spices which used Zenity were migrated to Xenity.
The Community Website was written years ago. It used PHP and allowed people to create accounts with a login and password. Following the recent discovery of critical vulnerabilities in PHP, we decided to rewrite it from scratch and reduce the amount of sensitive data stored in our database. It no longer uses PHP and it no longer stores or uses passwords. Authentication is now handled by GitHub. When you sign in, the Community Website gets the following data from GitHub: your username, your email address, and your avatar. If your email address matches the email associated with an existing account, that account is merged into the new one.
Budgie 10.10.4 Released
https://buddiesofbudgie.org/blog/budgie-10-10-4-released
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Joshua Strobl
November 1, 2026
Budgie 10.10.4 is our fourth minor release of the Budgie 10.10 series. This is primarily a bug fix release, but it also makes automatic and intelligent hiding work on Wayland, reworks dock mode, lets you switch Raven views with the keyboard, adds a shortcut for showing your panels, and more!
Features and Improvements
Panel Auto-hide and Dock Mode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlU262Yeg-I
Features and Improvements
Panel Auto-hide and Dock Mode You can also watch this video via PeerTube / MakerTube here.
https://makertube.net/w/38p7RnxBQF13NKyRNb5KbM
Ever since our move to Wayland with Budgie 10.10, automatic hiding and dock mode have been quirky to say the least. Under X11, Budgie could get the size and position of your windows, and hid a panel set to Intelligent whenever the focused window intersected it. On Wayland, Budgie gets its list of windows from the wlr-foreign-toplevel-management protocol, which tells us whether a window is maximized and which monitor it is on, but not its size or position. Without that, the overlap check we relied on had nothing to work with.
In 10.10.3, a panel set to Intelligent "hid" by dropping behind your windows. That worked until a window was maximized: the panel was now underneath it, so moving your mouse to the edge of the screen did not bring it back up, and it stayed hidden until that window was no longer maximized (issue #950). Automatic did not hide the panel at all, and a dock set to hide still reserved its whole edge, so your maximized windows could not use that space either. 👇
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/issues/950
With 10.10.4, the panel code received a major refactor, with automatic hide as well as dock mode receiving an almost complete rework. A hidden panel now stays above your windows, but is otherwise invisible with a small 3px area (the width / height of the panel depending on orientation) along its edge for capturing mouse events.
Moving your mouse to that edge brings the panel back, and clicking anywhere else goes through to the window underneath. Panels will stay visible while one of their popovers is open, so you can use Budgie Menu, interact with IconTasklist popovers, change volume using the Sound applet, and so forth. Panels set to automatically hide also no longer reserve space on the screen, so your maximized windows can use the full screen.
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Automatic and Intelligent Since
Budgie cannot check whether a window intersects a panel, both policies now go by maximized windows instead:
Automatic hides the panel whenever any window on its monitor is maximized.
Intelligent hides the panel only while the focused window is maximized.
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Fullscreen Applications
If you are watching a fullscreen video, moving your mouse to the edge of the screen now shows the panel above the video. Games that lock your mouse pointer are not affected, as long as your compositor correctly supports / implements the pointer constraints protocol.
Panels with "Automatically hide" set to Never stay behind fullscreen applications, and there are now two ways to bring your panels up over one (issue #600):👇
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/issues/600
Super+T is a new shortcut that shows all of your panels without opening Budgie Menu. Pressing it again hides them, as does moving your mouse over a panel and then away from it.
The Super key now shows every panel when opening Budgie Menu, not just the panel the menu is on. If you are already opening the menu to launch an application, there is no need for a separate shortcut. The panels stay visible while the menu is open, and hide once it closes and your mouse is not over any of them.
https://buddiesofbudgie.org/blog/budgie-10-10-4-released
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Joshua Strobl
November 1, 2026
Budgie 10.10.4 is our fourth minor release of the Budgie 10.10 series. This is primarily a bug fix release, but it also makes automatic and intelligent hiding work on Wayland, reworks dock mode, lets you switch Raven views with the keyboard, adds a shortcut for showing your panels, and more!
Features and Improvements
Panel Auto-hide and Dock Mode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlU262Yeg-I
Features and Improvements
Panel Auto-hide and Dock Mode You can also watch this video via PeerTube / MakerTube here.
https://makertube.net/w/38p7RnxBQF13NKyRNb5KbM
Ever since our move to Wayland with Budgie 10.10, automatic hiding and dock mode have been quirky to say the least. Under X11, Budgie could get the size and position of your windows, and hid a panel set to Intelligent whenever the focused window intersected it. On Wayland, Budgie gets its list of windows from the wlr-foreign-toplevel-management protocol, which tells us whether a window is maximized and which monitor it is on, but not its size or position. Without that, the overlap check we relied on had nothing to work with.
In 10.10.3, a panel set to Intelligent "hid" by dropping behind your windows. That worked until a window was maximized: the panel was now underneath it, so moving your mouse to the edge of the screen did not bring it back up, and it stayed hidden until that window was no longer maximized (issue #950). Automatic did not hide the panel at all, and a dock set to hide still reserved its whole edge, so your maximized windows could not use that space either. 👇
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/issues/950
With 10.10.4, the panel code received a major refactor, with automatic hide as well as dock mode receiving an almost complete rework. A hidden panel now stays above your windows, but is otherwise invisible with a small 3px area (the width / height of the panel depending on orientation) along its edge for capturing mouse events.
Moving your mouse to that edge brings the panel back, and clicking anywhere else goes through to the window underneath. Panels will stay visible while one of their popovers is open, so you can use Budgie Menu, interact with IconTasklist popovers, change volume using the Sound applet, and so forth. Panels set to automatically hide also no longer reserve space on the screen, so your maximized windows can use the full screen.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Automatic and Intelligent Since
Budgie cannot check whether a window intersects a panel, both policies now go by maximized windows instead:
Automatic hides the panel whenever any window on its monitor is maximized.
Intelligent hides the panel only while the focused window is maximized.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Fullscreen Applications
If you are watching a fullscreen video, moving your mouse to the edge of the screen now shows the panel above the video. Games that lock your mouse pointer are not affected, as long as your compositor correctly supports / implements the pointer constraints protocol.
Panels with "Automatically hide" set to Never stay behind fullscreen applications, and there are now two ways to bring your panels up over one (issue #600):👇
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/issues/600
Super+T is a new shortcut that shows all of your panels without opening Budgie Menu. Pressing it again hides them, as does moving your mouse over a panel and then away from it.
The Super key now shows every panel when opening Budgie Menu, not just the panel the menu is on. If you are already opening the menu to launch an application, there is no need for a separate shortcut. The panels stay visible while the menu is open, and hide once it closes and your mouse is not over any of them.
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Raven
You can now switch between Raven's widgets and notifications views with the keyboard while Raven is open (issue #1005). Pressing Super+A or Super+N switches to that view, and pressing the shortcut for the view you are already on closes Raven.👇
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/issues/1005
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labwc Bridge
Moving Windows Between Monitors
Super+Shift+arrow keys now move the focused window to the monitor in that direction, as they did on Budgie 10.9 (issue #1006).👇
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/issues/1006
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Picture-in-Picture
Picture-in-Picture windows, such as the ones from Firefox, now stay on top of your other windows (issue #1018).👇
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/issues/1018
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Clicking the Desktop
By default, labwc opens its root menu when you left click the desktop. On a touchpad, this was easy to trigger by accident, and since releasing the click over a menu item activates it, a tap and drag could end up with accidental launches (like of Budgie Desktop Settings).
Left clicking the desktop now only focuses it, while right clicking still opens the root menu. This also fixes Budgie Menu and Raven not closing when left clicking the desktop with desktop icons turned off (issue #1004). Existing labwc configs are migrated on login, keeping any mouse settings you added yourself.👇
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/issues/1004
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Screen Dimming and Locking
You can now choose how long Budgie waits before dimming your screen (issue #999). The delay can be anywhere from 30 seconds to 30 minutes, and setting it to 0 turns dimming off. The next release of Budgie Control Center will add it to the Power panel (pull request #128). Until then, you can set it with gsettings:👇
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/issues/999
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-control-center/pull/128
gsettings set com.solus-project.budgie-wm dimming-delay 90
You can also choose which screen locker Budgie uses, gtklock or swaylock (issue #1021). By default, Budgie uses the first one it finds installed, checking gtklock first:👇
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/issues/1021
gsettings set org.buddiesofbudgie.budgie-locker locker-choice 'swaylock'
If the locker you chose is not installed, Budgie falls back to the one that is.
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Faster Panel Startup
Previously, Budgie Menu, Icon Tasklist and the Autostart page in Budgie Desktop Settings each loaded the full list of installed applications separately, and Icon Tasklist did so again for every application it needed to match to a window. Now, the list is loaded once and shared across the panel, and reloaded when you install or remove applications. We measured the panel's first 90 seconds with 281 applications installed, with two runs per build for the timing measurements:
Linuxnext: There is a before and after chart you can look at it in the blog.
The heap increase is the shared list of applications, which is kept for as long as the panel runs. Opening the Autostart page, and Icon Tasklist matching windows opened after startup, also use the shared list now.
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Bug Fixes
Panel
In a language other than English, applets could disappear from the panel after updating to 10.10.3. Each applet's settings store the name of the plugin it comes from, and the panel matched that against the name libpeas reports for each plugin.
Raven
You can now switch between Raven's widgets and notifications views with the keyboard while Raven is open (issue #1005). Pressing Super+A or Super+N switches to that view, and pressing the shortcut for the view you are already on closes Raven.👇
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/issues/1005
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labwc Bridge
Moving Windows Between Monitors
Super+Shift+arrow keys now move the focused window to the monitor in that direction, as they did on Budgie 10.9 (issue #1006).👇
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/issues/1006
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Picture-in-Picture
Picture-in-Picture windows, such as the ones from Firefox, now stay on top of your other windows (issue #1018).👇
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/issues/1018
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Clicking the Desktop
By default, labwc opens its root menu when you left click the desktop. On a touchpad, this was easy to trigger by accident, and since releasing the click over a menu item activates it, a tap and drag could end up with accidental launches (like of Budgie Desktop Settings).
Left clicking the desktop now only focuses it, while right clicking still opens the root menu. This also fixes Budgie Menu and Raven not closing when left clicking the desktop with desktop icons turned off (issue #1004). Existing labwc configs are migrated on login, keeping any mouse settings you added yourself.👇
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/issues/1004
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Screen Dimming and Locking
You can now choose how long Budgie waits before dimming your screen (issue #999). The delay can be anywhere from 30 seconds to 30 minutes, and setting it to 0 turns dimming off. The next release of Budgie Control Center will add it to the Power panel (pull request #128). Until then, you can set it with gsettings:👇
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/issues/999
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-control-center/pull/128
gsettings set com.solus-project.budgie-wm dimming-delay 90
You can also choose which screen locker Budgie uses, gtklock or swaylock (issue #1021). By default, Budgie uses the first one it finds installed, checking gtklock first:👇
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/issues/1021
gsettings set org.buddiesofbudgie.budgie-locker locker-choice 'swaylock'
If the locker you chose is not installed, Budgie falls back to the one that is.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Faster Panel Startup
Previously, Budgie Menu, Icon Tasklist and the Autostart page in Budgie Desktop Settings each loaded the full list of installed applications separately, and Icon Tasklist did so again for every application it needed to match to a window. Now, the list is loaded once and shared across the panel, and reloaded when you install or remove applications. We measured the panel's first 90 seconds with 281 applications installed, with two runs per build for the timing measurements:
Linuxnext: There is a before and after chart you can look at it in the blog.
The heap increase is the shared list of applications, which is kept for as long as the panel runs. Opening the Autostart page, and Icon Tasklist matching windows opened after startup, also use the shared list now.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Bug Fixes
Panel
In a language other than English, applets could disappear from the panel after updating to 10.10.3. Each applet's settings store the name of the plugin it comes from, and the panel matched that against the name libpeas reports for each plugin.
Since applet names became translatable in 10.10.3, libpeas reports the translated name, so any applet with a translation failed to match and was dropped from the panel. Applets now store the plugin's module name in a new module key, which the panel prefers.
Applets without it are matched against the untranslated name from the plugin's .plugin file, and translated names saved by 10.10.3 are still accepted. On login, the panel fills in the module key for existing applets and replaces any translated name with the untranslated one. Other panel fixes:
A panel no longer stays hidden when one of its applets is not installed or fails to load. That applet is also removed from the panel's configuration.
Budgie Menu no longer covers a panel that does not reserve screen space.
Clicking a dropdown inside a popover, such as the schedule in the Night Light applet, no longer closes the popover.
The panel no longer crashes at startup when a panel has no stored position (issue #1001).👇
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/issues/1001
A newly created panel now saves its position right away, so it is not lost if your session ends shortly after creating it.
A panel no longer moves off your primary monitor after changing its edge.
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Bluetooth Applet
Budgie Control Center 2.1.1 removed its Bluetooth panel, which broke the settings button in the Bluetooth applet. The button now opens the first of these that is installed:
1. Bluejay
2. Blueman
3. Budgie Control Center
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Crystal Dock
The wallpaper border workaround can now handle JPEG XL wallpapers on distributions whose ImageMagick lacks JPEG XL support, by building Budgie with GraphicsMagick instead (issue #988).👇
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/issues/988
Changing a Crystal Dock setting no longer regenerates your wallpaper twice (issue #945).👇
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/issues/945
Restarting budgie-daemon no longer leaves old swaybg processes running.
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VMware The mouse pointer is visible again in VMware virtual machines. The labwc session now sets WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS when it detects VMware's virtual GPU, as it already did for virgl (issue #1037).👇
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/issues/1037
Qt Applications Older Qt applications and AppImages without Wayland support can launch again. When QT_QPA_PLATFORM is not already set, the labwc session now sets it to wayland;xcb, so Qt falls back to XWayland.
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Packaging Changes
New Build Option graphics-lib chooses the library budgie-daemon uses to convert wallpapers for the Crystal Dock workaround:
imagemagick (default) uses ImageMagick 7's magick.
graphicsmagick uses gm convert.
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Settings
org.buddiesofbudgie.budgie-locker is a new schema with a locker-choice key. Distributions shipping both gtklock and swaylock can override it to set their default.
com.solus-project.budgie-wm gains dimming-delay, defaulting to 30 seconds, and toggle-panels, defaulting to Super+T.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Panel Layouts
Applet entries in panel.ini can now use a Module= key, which is preferred over ID= when present. Existing layouts continue to work.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Contributor List
Budgie Desktop is developed by Buddies of Budgie, with contributors around the world. Alongside all of our amazing translators, here is a list of all the contributors that made this release possible:
David Mohammed👇
https://github.com/fossfreedom
Evan Maddock👇
https://github.com/EbonJaeger
Joshua Strobl👇
https://github.com/JoshStrobl
Applets without it are matched against the untranslated name from the plugin's .plugin file, and translated names saved by 10.10.3 are still accepted. On login, the panel fills in the module key for existing applets and replaces any translated name with the untranslated one. Other panel fixes:
A panel no longer stays hidden when one of its applets is not installed or fails to load. That applet is also removed from the panel's configuration.
Budgie Menu no longer covers a panel that does not reserve screen space.
Clicking a dropdown inside a popover, such as the schedule in the Night Light applet, no longer closes the popover.
The panel no longer crashes at startup when a panel has no stored position (issue #1001).👇
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/issues/1001
A newly created panel now saves its position right away, so it is not lost if your session ends shortly after creating it.
A panel no longer moves off your primary monitor after changing its edge.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Bluetooth Applet
Budgie Control Center 2.1.1 removed its Bluetooth panel, which broke the settings button in the Bluetooth applet. The button now opens the first of these that is installed:
1. Bluejay
2. Blueman
3. Budgie Control Center
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Crystal Dock
The wallpaper border workaround can now handle JPEG XL wallpapers on distributions whose ImageMagick lacks JPEG XL support, by building Budgie with GraphicsMagick instead (issue #988).👇
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/issues/988
Changing a Crystal Dock setting no longer regenerates your wallpaper twice (issue #945).👇
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/issues/945
Restarting budgie-daemon no longer leaves old swaybg processes running.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
VMware The mouse pointer is visible again in VMware virtual machines. The labwc session now sets WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS when it detects VMware's virtual GPU, as it already did for virgl (issue #1037).👇
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop/issues/1037
Qt Applications Older Qt applications and AppImages without Wayland support can launch again. When QT_QPA_PLATFORM is not already set, the labwc session now sets it to wayland;xcb, so Qt falls back to XWayland.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Packaging Changes
New Build Option graphics-lib chooses the library budgie-daemon uses to convert wallpapers for the Crystal Dock workaround:
imagemagick (default) uses ImageMagick 7's magick.
graphicsmagick uses gm convert.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Settings
org.buddiesofbudgie.budgie-locker is a new schema with a locker-choice key. Distributions shipping both gtklock and swaylock can override it to set their default.
com.solus-project.budgie-wm gains dimming-delay, defaulting to 30 seconds, and toggle-panels, defaulting to Super+T.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Panel Layouts
Applet entries in panel.ini can now use a Module= key, which is preferred over ID= when present. Existing layouts continue to work.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Contributor List
Budgie Desktop is developed by Buddies of Budgie, with contributors around the world. Alongside all of our amazing translators, here is a list of all the contributors that made this release possible:
David Mohammed👇
https://github.com/fossfreedom
Evan Maddock👇
https://github.com/EbonJaeger
Joshua Strobl👇
https://github.com/JoshStrobl