I’ve seen some really cool looking desktop effects related to blurring windows on plasma 5, they look really good, but I just can’t seem to find solid info on how to replicate it in plasma 6.

I’ve tried downloading and installing quite a bit and researched the issue a long while before coming to this.

Does anyone have some solid info regarding this that you can link below? I’m running Bazzite 41 and can give further info if needed as well as a reference point for what effect I’m trying to achieve.

    • MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml
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      17 days ago

      I suppose I had better post the full steps to getting all your windows transparent and blurred instead of the terse thing I did earlier.

      1. Clone and build Better Blur
      2. Open System Settings
      3. Go to Desktop Effects
      4. Disable blur and enable better blur
      5. Go to Window Rules
      6. Add a new rule and set window class to unimportant
      7. Add Active Opacity and choose your opacity level
      8. Add inactive Opacity and choose your opacity level
      • chingadera@lemmy.worldOP
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        8 days ago

        I gave it a go, and I’m pretty sure I’ve got all of the dependencies aside from extra-cmake-modules

        I cannot for the life of me figure out how to install this.

        • MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml
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          8 days ago
          • Clone the repo
          • Install the dependencies
          • cd into the repo
          • mkdir build
          • cd build
          • cmake …/ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
          • make
          • sudo make install
          • chingadera@lemmy.worldOP
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            8 days ago

            Yeah I’m having an issue with the cmake command, I was able to install ecm, now I’m getting errors on finding dependencies for KF6

            I’m stuck using the rpm-ostree command for this, and it doesn’t seem to have the same options for installing dependencies as other tools do.

            I’ll have to take a look at it tomorrow, I’m beat.

            I appreciate you, though

            There is a note on GitHub for forceblur that states it will have to be built in a container as well. I’ll have to find out what that means tomorrow

            • MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml
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              8 days ago

              I’ve just realised you are running an immutable distro so it is going to be more complicated. I know pretty much nothing about immutable distros so can’t help further. Sorry.

              • chingadera@lemmy.worldOP
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                8 days ago

                No worries homie, turns out I don’t know anything about em either lmao. I got even further a moment ago, but ran into another thing. I think I’m going to throw in the towel and consider jumping into arch, pacman be looking mighty fine right about now

      • chingadera@lemmy.worldOP
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        17 days ago

        Thank you!

        I’ve got another question that you may have an answer to. I added some kwin scripts via file, and they just aren’t there. Is there a way to remove them? I want to say that they did in fact install, they’re just not in the UI.