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Maintained by me at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/plasma6-wallpapers-smart-video-wallpaper-reborn

Install instructions: https://software.opensuse.org//download.html?project=home%3Aluisbocanegra&package=plasma-smart-video-wallpaper-reborn

Maintained with @pallaswept and me at https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:luisbocanegra/plasma-smart-video-wallpaper-reborn

Use dnf to install plasma-smart-video-wallpaper-reborn: sudo dnf in plasma-smart-video-wallpaper-reborn. The package will, by default, install ffmpeg-free if it isn't installed which should work for most videos. In case of issues, follow the instructions to install additional codecs from RPMfusion.

This package is not maintained by me and may not be up-to-date with the latest release.

1. First, install these dependencies or the equivalents for your distribution, depending on the distribution or how you configured your system these may already be installed. They are required for video playback.

   • Arch Linux

     sudo pacman -S qt6-multimedia qt6-multimedia-ffmpeg --needed

   • Fedora

     sudo dnf install qt6-multimedia

   • Debian

     sudo apt install libqt6multimedia6 qml6-module-qtmultimedia

   On some distributions qt6-multimedia-ffmpeg is included with qt6-multimedia

2. Right click on the Desktop > Desktop and Wallpaper > Get New Plugins

3. Search for "Smart Video Wallpaper Reborn" by luis-bocanegra and install it.

Install these dependencies or the equivalents for your distribution

git gcc cmake extra-cmake-modules libplasma qt6-multimedia qt6-multimedia-ffmpeg

Clone and install

git clone https://github.com/luisbocanegra/plasma-smart-video-wallpaper-reborn
cd plasma-smart-video-wallpaper-reborn
./install.sh

1. Right click on the Desktop > Desktop and Wallpaper
2. Change Wallpaper type to "Smart Video Wallpaper Reborn"
3. Add your videos
4. Apply

1. Go to System settings > Screen Locking > Configure Appearance...
2. Change Wallpaper type to "Smart Video Wallpaper Reborn"
3. Add your videos
4. Apply

1. Edit /etc/plasmalogin.conf (create it if it does not exist) as follows:

   [Greeter]
   WallpaperPluginId=luisbocanegra.smart.video.wallpaper.reborn

   Save the changes

2. Your video files need to be in a directory that allows other users to see them, which includes the plasmalogin user, you can create one like this:

   sudo mkdir /srv/shared
   sudo chmod 777 /srv/shared

   Copy your videos to that directory and make sure they are readable by other users, running ls -l /srv/shared should show the video files permission as -rw-r--r--. In most distributions that will be the case by default, if not, run find /srv/shared -type f -exec chmod 644 {} +.

   The directory /srv/shared is just a suggestion, you can use other location as long as the files are readable by the plasmalogin user:

   find /srv/shared -type f -exec sudo -u plasmalogin test -r {} \;

3. Go to System Settings > Login Screen > Configure Appearance and add your videos from /srv/shared then apply the changes.

To be able to play most video files, you may need to install additional packages from your distribution

• Arch Linux (ArchWiki - Codecs and containers - Video codecs)
• Fedora (RPM Fusion repo)
• openSUSE (Packman repositories)
• Gentoo (Gentoo Wiki - Media container formats)

First, verify acceleration you can install and run nvtop, it will show a decoding usage when Hardware acceleration is working:

If nvtop is not available you can use:

• intel_gpu_top from intel-gpu-tools for Intel GPU using the i915 driver (video engine)
• gputop for Intel GPU using the xe driver (video column)
• nvidia-smi dmon for Nvidia GPU (dec column)
• amdgpu_top --smi for AMD GPU (dec column)

If there is no decoding usage you will have to enable video acceleration in your system

• Arch Linux (ArchWiki - Hardware video acceleration)
• Fedora (Fedora Project Wiki - Video decoding)
• Debian (Debian Wiki - HardwareVideoAcceleration)
• Gentoo (Gentoo Wiki - VA-API)

Depending on your configuration, the GPU doing the hardware decoding may not be the one you want.

Go to the wallpaper plugin configuration > Advanced tab and set one of the following options according to your hardware:

Intel only or paired with another vendor GPU

• FFmpeg + VA-API acceleration backend + iHD VA-API driver
• FFmpeg + Quick Sync acceleration backend
• FFmpeg + Vulkan acceleration backend if Intel is the primary renderer or the other GPU does not support it

AMD only or paired with another vendor GPU

• FFmpeg + VA-API acceleration backend + radeonsi VA-API driver
• FFmpeg + Vulkan acceleration backend if AMD is the primary renderer or the other GPU does not support it

NVIDIA only or paired with another vendor GPU

• FFmpeg + cuda acceleration backend
• FFmpeg + Vulkan acceleration backend if NVIDIA is the primary renderer or the other GPU does not support it

In case of crash loop switch to a TTY (Ctr + Alt + one of your F1-F12 keys) and remove the videos from the Desktop, Lock Screen and Login Screen configuration using the following command:

sudo sed -i 's/^VideoUrls=.*$/VideoUrls=/g' $HOME/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc $HOME/.config/kscreenlockerrc /etc/plasmalogin.conf

Then reboot your system.

Try disabling hardware textures conversion

1. Open the wallpaper settings
2. Go to the Advanced tab
3. Enable the option Disable hardware textures conversion
4. Log out and back in

Switch to GStreamer as Qt Media backend

1. Install the media codecs and qt6-multimedia and gstreamer packages if you don't have them:

   openSUSE

   sudo zypper install opi
   opi codecs
   sudo zypper install qt6-multimedia gstreamer-plugins-libav

   Arch

   sudo pacman -S qt6-multimedia qt6-multimedia-gstreamer gst-libav --needed

   If you need extra codecs see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GStreamer

   PRs to expand this list are welcome :)

2. Open the wallpaper settings

3. Go to the Advanced tab and change Media backend to GStreamer

4. Log out and back in to apply the changes

1. Run journalctl -f > journal.txt and sudo dmesg -wHT > dmesg.txt in separate terminals

2. While both commands are running switch from the Image wallpaper plugin to video wallpaper and reproduce the issue

3. Then stop both commands

4. If needed, remove the plugin configuration (see removal instructions above)

5. Get your system information from kinfo command or from System settings > About this System

6. Save the file from here as test.qml. Run the test qml with from terminal:

   QT_MESSAGE_PATTERN="%{if-debug}[D] %{endif}%{if-info}[I] %{endif}%{if-warning}[W] %{endif}%{if-critical}[E] %{endif}%{if-fatal}[F] %{endif}%{time [hh:mm:ss.zzz]}: %{appname}: %{if-category}%{category}:%{endif} %{file}:%{line}:%{function}: %{message}" QT_FFMPEG_DEBUG=1 QSG_INFO=1 QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1 QT_LOGGING_RULES="qml.debug=true;*.ffmpeg.*=true;*.multimedia.*=true" qml test.qml 2> qml_video_test_log.txt

   qml executable may be qml6, qml-qt6 or /usr/lib/qt6/bin/qml please confirm is Qt 6 one with --version

   The test file play some public test videos from internet. If it doesn't fail immediately, try clicking the pause/next buttons a bunch of times.

7. Run lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display' > lspci.txt

8. Create a new new issue describing the problem and how to reproduce, provide the requested information and the qml_video_test_log.txt, journal.txt, dmesg.txt files

See Translations

• This project a rewrite based on adhec/Smart Video Wallpaper and PeterTucker/smartER-video-wallpaper projects.
• ccatterina's script to manage translations
• Brand icons from Simple Icons
• Day-night icons from Google LLC. / Pictogrammers