KDE Plasma 5.26.2 Disables Animated Wallpaper Due to Severe Memory Leak

KDE Plasma 5.26.2 Disables Animated Wallpaper Due to Severe Memory Leak

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Marius Nestor
Oct 26, 2022

KDE Plasma 5.26.2 is here a week after KDE Plasma 5.26’s first point release to address more bugs and critical security issues, including a severe memory leak when using the xcb_glx integration for the new animated wallpaper feature on X11. As such, the animated wallpaper feature has been disabled on X11, for now. Learn more here.

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Marius Nestor

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