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KDE Neon dev/unstable switching to Wayland by default

During this year’s Akademy we had a few discussions about Wayland, and the Plasma and Neon team decided to switch Neon developer unstable edition to Wayland by default soonish.

There are still a few things in the stack which need to be shaken out – we need a newer Xwayland in Neon, we want to wait for Plasma 5.8 to be released, we need to get the latest QtWayland 5.7 build, etc. etc.

This is really exciting. It’s probably the biggest step towards Wayland by default the KDE community has ever taken. I hope that other continuous delivery systems will follow so that we can get many enthusiastic users to try Wayland.

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Running Plasma-Wayland on KDE Neon

This morning I installed KDE Neon on my good old ExoPC as I need to test some touch functionality on Wayland. So here are the steps on how to switch Neon to use Wayland:

Install package plasma-workspace-wayland:

sudo apt install plasma-workspace-wayland

Log out and select in session drop down Plasma (Wayland), log in and enjoy your Wayland session.

If you want to verify that it truly is a Wayland session, just open any KDE application, open the “Help” Menu, go to “About <Application Name>”, click “Version” tab, it should say “The Wayland windowing system” is being used.