KDE Plasma 6.5.4 released!

[keescase]

Also gone back to the system blur settings and using that in combination with dim inactive window , I am ok with that for the moment.

[Noodly]

I’m sure I read somewhere that KDE are working on Blur for the Plasma 6.6 release.

[Grothesk]

@dalto

There will be a series of KDE updates over the next few days. In addition to the plasma updates, both Gear and Frameworks are also doing releases this week.

Exciting times we live in…

[swh]

I think I read something about that from Nicco. You’re right.

[Locutus]

@DenalB

Wow, am I the first one recognized the KDE update?

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Works great so far.

Plasma 6.5.4 complete changelog - KDE Community

LOVING your colors. Is there by chance a tut on doing the image? Thanks

Just got the 6.5.4 update here and all looks good. Thanks

[dbarronoss]

Well that’s not far away, Feb was it?

[DenalB]

@Locutus

LOVING your colors. Is there by chance a tut on doing the image? Thanks

I’m using Kitty terminal with Dracula theme colors.

[_Six]

@swh

I think it’s completely ill-conceived that I have to rebuild the program every time there’s a plasma update.

Flashbacks of changing settings back to how I want them again after a Windows update.

[MyNameIsRichard]

Thank you. That’s installed.

[MyNameIsRichard]

Have you adjusted the corner radius?

[dirn]

@MyNameIsRichard

Have you adjusted the corner radius?

I think the fork version lack this feature.

[UncleSpellbinder]

@dirn

@MyNameIsRichard

Have you adjusted the corner radius?

I think the fork version lack this feature.

Maybe this…

Though I did not notice any change.

[dirn]

@UncleSpellbinder

Though I did not notice any change.

It’s hard to see when you use same base color as wallpaper. Try with some contrast color wallpaper.
I’m going to install and try this plugin. Btw @UncleSpellbinder , did you notice any leftover artifact when you do shift + left click into tiling?

Edit:
Noob question, if I install using the cmake build approach. How do I uninstall it?

Edit:
I figured how to uninstall. Thanks.

[dirn]

@UncleSpellbinder @MyNameIsRichard
The corner radius works.

before

after

Nice. It fixed the leftover artifact when in tiling mode as well. By disabling blur to the drop region. Which is fine for me.

[UncleSpellbinder]

YES! It does work. Thanks!

[Mellow]

not me doing all this only to then read

i dont know how to do this, i have never used something directly from github before.

im so screwed

[MyNameIsRichard]

In the directory you cloned to, there will be a build directory. Delete it. I do that as part of my build script. If you are interested it’s

cd ~/Projects/cpp/kwin-effects-better-blur-dx
git pull
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
make -j10
sudo make install
cd ..
rm -rf build

Change the path to where you put it.

[Noodly]

I’d be interested to know how to do that, uninstall I mean. How did you do it?

[Noodly]

Ahhh damn, I missed that check box, thanks mate.

[dirn]

@Noodly

I’d be interested to know how to do that, uninstall I mean. How did you do it?

I’ve already uninstalled it and will wait for the official blur.
If anyone knows the correct method, please share it.

I got these steps from ChatGPT. Steps 2 and 3 are optional. I did them just to be safe, since this is my first time working with CMake.

How to uninstall kwin-effects-better-blur-dx
    1. Go to your build directory
        cd /path/to/build
    2. Preview what will be removed (recommended)
        cat install_manifest.txt
    3. Test a dry-run (no removals)
        xargs -I{} echo "Would remove: {}" < install_manifest.txt
    4. Safely remove the installed files
        xargs -I{} sudo rm -v "{}" < install_manifest.txt