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KDE Plasma 6.5 Desktop Environment Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing
KDE Plasma 6.5 is packed with lots of goodies for everyone, including major UI improvements to the Sticky Note widget, support for displaying ink levels on your printers, rounded bottom corners for Breeze-decorated windows, and support for syncing the clipboard text between the client and server on remote sessions.
It also introduces the KDE Initial System Setup feature, a tool designed for OEM installations when you buy a laptop that ships with the KDE Plasma desktop environment, so you can configure it the way you want when starting up a brand-new computer.
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KDE Plasma 6.5 Beta Release
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KDE Plasma 6.5 Beta Is Here, and I'm Excited
The KDE Plasma version 6.5 just got released in beta, and it's bringing some exciting upgrades to the popular open source desktop environment for Linux and BSD operating systems. Dark mode switching, KRunner, and the clipboard manager are among the features seeing improvements.
The most visible update coming with Plasma 6.5 is support for automatic day and night theme switching. When you open your Global Theme settings, you'll see a toggle for "Switch to Dark Mode at Night." So long as there are both light and dark versions of your theme, the desktop will switch on its own based on your timing configuration.
In the Wallpapers settings menu, you'll now also have access to dynamic wallpapers with light and dark alternatives. Complementing the new global theming option, you'll be able to set these wallpapers to automatically switch based on the time of day.