--- title: KDE Plasma 6.8 Introducing New kscreenctl Tool | daily.dev description: KDE Plasma 6.8 is introducing kscreenctl, a new command-line screen control tool intended to eventually replace kscreen-doctor, offering various display output... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/kde-plasma-6-8-introducing-new-kscreenctl-tool-phv1bueoh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: KDE Plasma 6.8 Introducing New kscreenctl Tool | daily.dev og:description: KDE Plasma 6.8 is introducing kscreenctl, a new command-line screen control tool intended to eventually replace kscreen-doctor, offering various display output... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/kde-plasma-6-8-introducing-new-kscreenctl-tool-phv1bueoh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/phv1BuEOh.png og:image:alt: KDE Plasma 6.8 Introducing New kscreenctl Tool og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # KDE Plasma 6.8 Introducing New kscreenctl Tool **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary KDE Plasma 6.8 is introducing kscreenctl, a new command-line screen control tool intended to eventually replace kscreen-doctor, offering various display output configuration options. Other highlights from this week's KDE development include an auto-lock setting for the built-in RDP server after client disconnection, per-user last-session tracking in the Plasma Login Manager, and several crash fixes across Plasma 6.6.7 and 6.7.4 — including KWin crashes with newer NVIDIA GPUs and color management, a KWin crash on certain laptops, and a System Settings crash when Fanatec racing pedals are connected. KDE Frameworks 6.29 also fixes a common random crash in QTextFrame::begin. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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