KDE Plasma 6 On Wayland Can Work Fine On FreeBSD

KDE Plasma 6 on FreeBSD using Wayland – OSnews

This year, 2025, the KDE Community held its yearly conference in Berlin, Germany. On the way I reinstalled FreeBSD on my Frame.work 13 laptop in another attempt to get KDE Plasma 6 Wayland working. Short story: yes, KDE Plasma 6 Wayland on FreeBSD works. ↫ Adriaan de Groot Adriaan de Groot is a long-time KDE developer and FreeBSD package maintainer, and he’s published a short but detailed guide on setting up a KDE Plasma desktop on FreeBSD using…

KDE Plasma 6 On Wayland Can Work Fine On FreeBSD

While the BSDs don't see nearly as much activity around Wayland as the desktop Linux distributions and they continue to predominantly rely on the X.Org Server by default, the modern KDE Plasma 6 desktop can in fact work fine on Wayland under FreeBSD 14 and the upcoming FreeBSD 15.0 release...