KNewStuff window "Download New Wallpaper Plugins" displaying the "Application Wallpaper" plugin. There are two screenshots visible - one with htop and other with kweather as screen locker backgrounds.

In the end I found a way to make it 100% QML, so you can now just download it from Discover or KNewStuff and enjoy on your desktop 🙂

https://invent.kde.org/dos/plasma-wallpaper-application

#plasma #kde #wayland #qtwayland #qml #qtquick #gnu #linux #screensaver #xscreensaver

And here it is! Welcome back as my screensaver, Asciiquarium 😊

I could have reimplemented it in Qt, as it was done back in the KDE 3/4 days... or I could just run the original thing in a Konsole window and call it a day 😁

#plasma #kde #wayland #qtwayland […]

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How it works? It's a Plasma wallpaper plugin which is an extremely simple QtWayland compositor that only handles a single fullscreen window and draws it - so any Wayland window can be drawn as a background. This window can of course also belong to Xwayland […]

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I had a random thought - "what would it take to support arbitrary old screensavers in Plasma 6 again?" 🤔 So here's xscreensaver safely rendered as a background for Plasma screen locker, working on both Wayland and X11 sessions. Turned out so much simpler […]

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