--- title: "KDE Plasma 6.8 Making It Easier To Configure Multi-Monitor Setups" url: https://daily.dev/posts/kde-plasma-6-8-making-it-easier-to-configure-multi-monitor-setups-o5uqohxgf source_url: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.8-Multi-Monitor type: article source: "Phoronix" published: 2026-06-20T10:30:49.528Z updated: 2026-06-20T10:31:09.782Z tags: ["linux", "qml"] reading_time: 2 upvotes: 1 comments: 0 language: 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 Making It Easier To Configure Multi-Monitor Setups **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary KDE Plasma 6.8 is getting color-coded number badges for monitors in multi-monitor configuration screens, making it easier to identify displays — especially useful for setups with multiple identical models. QML-based KDE apps will also switch to the KDE-style color picker instead of Qt's, which doesn't respect KDE color schemes. Meanwhile, Plasma 6.7.1 is bringing a smooth blend effect when switching global themes, disabling the game controller input plug-in by default due to a race condition on hot-plug, and fixing a KWin crash at login caused by invalid color format requests. Plasma 6.6.6 addresses KWin failing to start at login on older GPUs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [KDE Plasma 6.7 released](https://daily.dev/posts/kde-plasma-6-7-released-1psklhgbz) · omg\! ubuntu\! · 13 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#qml](https://daily.dev/tags/qml) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/kde-plasma-6-8-making-it-easier-to-configure-multi-monitor-setups-o5uqohxgf)