How to fix Yakuake window placement in KDE Wayland

 

How to fix Yakuake window placement in KDE Wayland:

Step 1:

Set up a window rule for org.kde.yakuake and add the property "Initial placement" and set the value to "Force" and "In Top-Left Corner" Like in this pic:

https://i.imgur.com/xqcweic.png

Step 2.

Change the width of yakuake to take up the entire width of your screen.

Step 3:

???

Step 4:

Profit!

How to force an application to run in Xwayland instead of Wayland

I had a problem with the game osu!lazer in Fedora KDE Wayland today. I know how to force a flatpak application to run in Xwayland, but this was an AppImage.

This command fixed the issue:

env -u WAYLAND_DISPLAY ./osu.AppImage

So, to force a non-flatpak application to run in Xwayland, simply type in the terminal (or modify the launcher):

env -u WAYLAND_DISPLAY <insert-name-of-application>

For flatpak applications, it's a bit different.

Download Flatseal from flathub, change permissions of your application or game in Flatseal to remove the "Wayland" socket. In my experience, in versions of KDE lower than 5.23, you might need to disable "fallback-x11" socket as well.

How to fix ugly/jagged fonts in flatpak GTK applications in Fedora 35 KDE wayland

The fonts in GTK/Gnome flatpak applications in the Fedora 35 KDE wayland session currently look like garbage (they are not antialiased) unless you run them without the wayland socket. This is due to xdg-desktop-portal-gtk being built incorrectly. You can fix this by installing xdg-desktop-portal-gnome and rebooting.

Step 1. sudo dnf install xdg-desktop-portal-gnome

Step 2. Reboot

Step 3. Verify that xdg-desktop-portal-gnome is running instead of xdg-desktop-portal-gtk

Fonts in flatpak'ed GTK/Gnome applications should look fine now.

See these bug reports for more details:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2012315

https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk/issues/355

https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/4438

How to stop KDE Plasma and other QT Apps from Spamming your System Log

 I noticed a lot of spam in /var/log/messages on Fedora 34 KDE.

Sep 22 23:28:11 fedora-t580 plasmashell[82570]: kf.config.core: "\"NaturalSize_1\" - conversion of \"-1,-1\" to QSizeF failed"
Sep 22 23:28:11 fedora-t580 plasmashell[82570]: kf.config.core: "\"NaturalSize_1\" - conversion of \"-1,-1\" to QSizeF failed"
Sep 22 23:28:11 fedora-t580 plasmashell[82570]: kf.config.core: "\"NaturalSize_1\" - conversion of \"-1,-1\" to QSizeF failed"
Sep 22 23:28:26 fedora-t580 plasmashell[82570]: kf.config.core: "\"NaturalSize_1\" - conversion of \"-1,-1\" to QSizeF failed"
Sep 22 23:28:26 fedora-t580 plasmashell[82570]: kf.config.core: "\"NaturalSize_1\" - conversion of \"-1,-1\" to QSizeF failed"

Those lines were repeated over and over again.

I finally found a workaround for it.

Add this line to /etc/environment

QT_LOGGING_RULES='*=false'

And reboot.

No more log spam.