Since most plugins don’t work on Plasma 6, is there another way to have video wallpapers?
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Hidamari might work.
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I’m using the Flatpak version of Hidamari. And it can’t seem to find my video files that I put into the ~/Videos/Hidamari folder.
Hidamari works for me (I’m on KDE Neon) but is not usable, it completely covers the desktop icons and widgets.
There was Smart Video Wallpaper on Plasma 5, it was just perfect but the author seems to have disappeared so no port to plasma 6.
I had a video wallpaper for years, the change is brutal to no longer have it, this function should be native in KDE Plasma.
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True. I think the KDE team should just take that code for the Smarter Video Wallpaper plugin and just integrate it. Along with that, make sure it uses the GPU for decoding the video so that the CPU doesn’t get taxed.
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It’s sad but I don’t think they’ll ever integrate it and I’m not even sure if anyone will port SmartVideoWallpaper to Plasma 6.
For the sake of completeness: You can use animated image formats. But of course depending on your hardware the performance is abysmal.
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I just tested after converting a video to .gif, it consumes a little more than with SmartVideoWallpaper (tested on an 800x480 screen which acts as a monitor in my destop pc) between 5-10% more resources.
Thanks for the tip.
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@Schlaefer, does anyone know how to ascertain which animated file formats plasmashell
I ask because I’d love the undermentioned as a wallpaper:
@xkain, there appears to be:
I know that webp and avif work. Here’s a quick avif test sample:
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@Schlaefer, I’m gonna give you a big digital kiss for that! Thanks! Saved me some time.
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…or, well, would have, but I can’t actually download the add-on: [1]
Does it work for everyone else here? If so, I’ll delay or cancel asking the author to distribute a native package in its stead.
It works for me, shows the same error but still installs. I am the author of the plugin btw
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These kind of warnings/errors are somewhat common, usually pressing Esc or clicking outside of the dialog a bunch of times makes it go away.
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@luisbocanegra, I was fearful that failed connections might cause a partial installation, since unlike something like dnf5, there’s no console that prints that the package has been verified to a checksum after installation. Thanks for allaying my fears.
Though, if ever you considered getting the package into some large distributions’ native package repositories to be worth the time and effort, I’d find that very useful.
On that note, if anyone knows of a thread discussing how to use Get New Stuff via the CLI, I’d find that useful too. I’ve been rather disappointed by its GUI, and would also like to automate some add-on installations.
I have yes, for now just an AUR package because is what I’m most familiar with. I plan to add all my add-ons to openSUSE Build Service at some point
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I’ve created one:
I’ve used that – it’s unmatched!
You can use discover or just use KDE Store or pling and have ocs-url installed so you can hit the install button and it will put it in the right spot. Since the store an pling are where they are pulled from.
If you have wallpaper engine its what i use personally Share your desktop! - #433 by EliteAMDGamer but you cant really make your own wallpapers on linux you kinda can with proton but its a pain. So i still have smart video wallpaper as a backup.
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@EliteAMDGamer, please elaborate, because I can’t imagine how supplying a file to Wallpaper Engine would be more difficult when it runs via Proton – do you have Steam installed as a Flatpak?
I’d imagined that it would merely suffer from what Hidimari does: