KDE Plasma 6.6 to get a great new feature - limit virtual desktops to the primary screen

By Liam Dawe - 11 Nov 2025 at 4:56 pm UTC

The work never ends to improve the KDE Plasma desktop environment for Linux, and with Plasma 6.6 a fun new feature is coming to tweak virtual desktops.

What is it? A virtual desktop acts like having multiple screens on one screen, allowing you to flick between them. You could have specific things open ready on one, ready to swap over to it whenever you need. It can be really useful. However, currently on KDE Plasma the virtual desktop applies to all screens.

Pictured - KDE Plasma, multiple virtual desktops.

That's going to change with KDE Plasma 6.6, as a new option has been added to let you configure the behaviour between the current way, and limiting it only to your primary screen. This sounds great, there's a lot of times I want something to always stay on (like emails or Discord) while swapping around on my main screen and this would be perfect for that.

Plus more features and bug fixes coming as noted in the latest Plasma development blog post roundup.

Plasma 6.6 should be due out in February 2026.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Desktop Environment, KDE, Misc, Open Source, Upcoming

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Cloversheen a day ago

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Hey that's neat! emoji

It is one feature of Gnome I really like.

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RTheren a day ago

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My favourite function from GNOME is finally getting into Plasma as well. Neato.

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Pyrate a day ago

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I recently found out about that missing feature the hard way during a presentation emoji

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hell0 a day ago

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Nice, one more reason to try kde on my next install. Already made the switch to a DE-agnostic terminal a while ago for that reason.

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KoboldMage a day ago

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That's really cool! One of the very few things I miss from my work mac is per-display virtual desktops, but I only ever really use them on the one display anyway

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tpau 16 hours ago

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I still hope for a way to split an ultrawide screen in two virtual monitors so i can have a game in 16:9 on the left side and chat on the right side.
Right now having custom regions and boxes with shortcuts and scripts that resize and move them feels too complex.

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GoEsr 15 hours ago

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Hopefully this will eventually be fully unlocked to work on any screen we choose.

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chr 9 hours ago

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@tpau

I still hope for a way to split an ultrawide screen in two virtual monitors so i can have a game in 16:9 on the left side and chat on the right side.
Right now having custom regions and boxes with shortcuts and scripts that resize and move them feels too complex.

Whatever scripts you have - you can map to some keyboard hotkeys. Or if remembering arbitrary combinations isn't you jam, I recommend using [Kando](https://github.com/kando-menu/kando) or [fusuma](https://github.com/iberianpig/fusuma) 😊

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tpau 2 hours ago

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@chr , why make it more complicated than it has to though? ;)
Have it simple and then offer the option to built fancy stuff on top of it for those that want to invest more time.

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