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.

  • @[email protected]
    4•2 days ago

    The way I did it was to build this. You’ll need to rebuild it after every Plasma update. It works on X11 and Wayland.

    • chingaderaOP
      1•2 days ago

      Thank you! I’ll give it a shot later today!

      • @[email protected]
        1•2 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
        • chingaderaOP
          1•1 day 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.

          • @[email protected]
            1•15 hours ago

            Have a look under ~/.local/share/kwin/scripts/ and see if they’re in there. If not, see if they were installed globally by checking /usr/share/kwin/scripts/