Live wallpapers on EOS KDE 6.0?

Desktop Environments Plasma
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Hi friends. Does anyone know if you can use live wallpapers on EOS KDE 6.0?

I’ve seen live wallpapers in .gif format, but I don’t know if they are for windows, or if a special format is needed for linux, or if they are not compatible with KDE.

I found this live wallpaper website, apparently they are mp4 videos, not GIF files as I thought.

I would like to be able to use that wallpaper if possible, since I can’t find any Arch/EOS themed live wallpapers.

Thanks in advance.

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Yeah I would like to know this one to!
like Windows have Wallpaper Engine but Linux should have something similar.

Edit: after some searching I found this:
https://alternativeto.net/software/wallpaper-engine/

So we have 3 “options” Variety, Hidamari, and Maby Layered Wallpaper witch seams to be deferent but you can read about them on the site.

Good luck!

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Plasma can display GIF as wallpaper without issue. Videos also but via a plugin.

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Humm… Interesting! Thanks!
Now we have options! :+1:

Edit: seams “wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin” don’t support KDE 6 yet!

"Todo

support kde6
move scene to separate process

"

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Another option here I haven’t tried it though.

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while these are great for managing wallpapers unfortunately none of these support using live wallpapers. otherwise variety is a great application

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I use variety. It has worked flawlessly.

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Thank you very much @SCORPION2000 @GolDNenex @smokey @mayhem @sempterobit

I tried adding these gifs as wallpaper and it worked perfectly:

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallpaper/comments/wlz9uo/my_collection_of_8_bit_live_wallpaper_gifs/

Now I’m going to take a look at those programs/plugins that you recommended to try to use .mp4 backgrounds, since I can’t find any gif backgrounds that aren’t 8-bit.

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Thank you for the link of the wallpapers, I only had a still version of the mario one and have went to animated it a few times, this one has a bit too much movement but it’s given me some great ideas

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I will not be turning off my vpn, so I will not be going to the evil reddit link. Also, variety will not open gifs. Only still images. At least for me anyway.

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Sorry for the off topic, but are you saying that reddit can detect and ban VPNs? My reddit account was banned for using Tor last year, before that I could use Tor on Reddit. I created another account and got banned, it took me a while to realize that the problem was that I was using Tor, but I didn’t know that they also had this new system of detecting VPNs.

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You are correct. I can go to reddit.com if I disable mullvad, but the moment I enable it and try to go anywhere in reddit I get the following message.

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Yeah I noticed that behaviour this week when I was playing around with wireguard, they probably just track and block known endpoints for various VPN providers.

Same thing the streaming companies use (alongside their usual geofencing tricks, naturally).

A VPN doesn’t do anything magic to become unedectable at the exit point, any service can still see that the traffic is coming from a specific place and if they’re aware that place is a known exit point for a VPN it’s simple enough to block - the point is that traffic can’t be traced back to you by anybody, not to look as though you’re not using a VPN at all.

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