Set any application as a wallpaper / screensaver

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For those who miss their old screensavers, or maybe want to set some dynamic dashboard as their wallpaper… I’ve published a wallpaper plugin for Plasma which acts as a simple Wayland compositor, allowing you to embed any application as the background for your desktop or screenlocker.

What could you use with it? I came up with xscreensaver, Windows screensavers through Wine, Asciiquarium in Konsole, htop, KWeather’s animated view… But what you’ll come up with? :slight_smile:

You can install it via Discover or KNewStuff. Enjoy!

Here it is in action:

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So cool!

You should also post on https://lemmy.kde.social/

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I attempted to (social.librem.one/@dos/115198468381756773) but it did not show up there. Is there a moderation queue, or did I break some cross-posting/federation rules? It’s the first time I try to interact with Lemmy :zany_face:

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No, I don’t think so, maybe a server side problem, it seemed to be down yesterday.

Edit: I tried to manually create a posting but that appears to be broken as well.