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post/plasma-blur/ #7

Open utterances-bot opened 4 years ago

utterances-bot commented 4 years ago

Blur Any Window in KDE Plasma - sainnhe's blog

About The newest KDE plasma natively support blur, but it has many limitations, for example I can’t blur vim status line and firefox. This article tries to find a way to blur any window in plasma, like this: Preparation To begin with, make sure you have already enabled blur effect via Kvantum and some themes that support blur, for example Sweet Script I wrote a simple script that can launch application and blur the window automatically:

https://www.sainnhe.dev/post/plasma-blur/

Devjhonn commented 4 years ago

You can try to do as Reaload vibrancy does for windows and mac, however the creator did not make it available for linux

sainnhe commented 4 years ago

@Marcos-Sants u/ei-krem provided a much more elegant method to achieve this:

  1. Install kwin-forceblur and add some class names you want to force blur.
  2. In System Settings > Workspace > Window Management > Window Rules, add some rules to make the desired window classes transparent.