Is there a way to make the wallpaper engine work? Or some similar software?
Is there a way to make the wallpaper engine work? Or some similar software?
CThere's a plugin for KDE to use Wallpaper Engine, if you are using GNOME instead you are out of luck with Hanabie gnome extension being the closest option I think.
RI just thought about something, do every game played on Linux gets his directx calls translated to vulkan? Is that what proton does?
ROr is that at least one of the things it does
Tinstall wallpaper engine via steam so its workshop content is downloaded, then in the area where you can pick wallpapers (directly in KDE), theres a wallpaper engine option. Point it to your steam install, and itll pick up the workshop content
Tbut as far as i know not every wallpaper will work, some may look broken
Tits basically just piggybacking on the workshop content of wallpaper engine, so you dont have to run the actual software
Tbasically yea
Tsome games may not do that, depending on their DirectX version (i believe DX9+ gets automatically translated, but im not sure about DX<9
RSo, I remember being able to choose Vulkan as rendering API in red dead redemption 2, therefore, would it be possible and benefic to disable that "translation" and set Vulkan in-game?
Tyup, that works. im just not sure if its faster or not
Ti dont have that particular game so i havent tested it
Tbut for example Baldurs Gate 3's own Vulkan performs worse than translating it via proton
RIt is I think, but using another thing, like vkd3d for dx10+ I guess and vkvoodoo or smth for dx9 and less
Tdxvk and vkd3d are the tools used yea
Tdxvk definitely does 9 10 11, VKD3D does 12
Tim just unsure if d8vk got merged into it already yet
RThere is an option in Lutris about vkvoodoo or something near this word that said "used for dx9 and earlier" when you hover it
RI'm not on my pc so I'm not really precise sorry
Mit’s been deprecated as of earlier this year iirc
Mdgvoodoo
RI was curious about these kind of things, I kinda got lost in YouTube and stumbled upon a video talking about game optimisations, how GPU works etc.
RAnd this question came to mind
Tits definitely a case by case basis in that instance
Tgenerally in my experience the games own variants perform worse than its proton equivalent
Tcould be different depending on the hardware and the game of course
RYeah because like every tool existing, it has to be used properly, if the dev implementation is horrid, the translation may be better and the other way around
Ti mean some games perform generally better here too, although everything is translated in some form
Tfor example i have much higher FPS in FFXIV on linux compared to windows on the same rig
RI remember having better performance using Vulkan when I was on windows, that's why I was wondering
Tbut in the same breath, i have around 10FPS worse in Cyberpunk on linux
RI have better FPS everywhere on my side using linux
RBut I think it's because my laptop has a CPU bottleneck, and Linux consuming less resource than windows gives more room for games to work
RI don't know if that can be an explanation, I clearly don't know enough about the subject, but it's my guess
Tjust to make sure, i believe that its already a known issue that gpu acceleration doesnt work in xwayland on 555?
Ti thought i could "workaround" the firefox issue by forcing it to run on XWayland, but it just outputs a mess
Tlittle other question on the side: does anyone know how to get plasmas workspace behaviour to only work on the main display and not on secondary ones?
KWallpaper engine support for KDE is pre-installed
KYou can just start using it
KCheck out the plug-in repository for usage instructions
KJust be sure to ignore the installation steps
TIs SteamTinkerLaunch broken for anyone else on the latest Bazzite stable (40.20240621.0)?
When launching a game nothing appears and when manually launching nothing happens. No output and the command never progresses. The stl logs don't show anything that I can see.
When launching a game nothing appears and when manually launching nothing happens. No output and the command never progresses. The stl logs don't show anything that I can see.
HAnyone have issues with the Xbox controller dongle sometimes not reconnecting to controllers properly after they go to sleep from idle? Controller and dongle have solid light after turning the controller back on so it should be connected, but steam doesn't seem to pick it up. I occasionally have to unplug and plug the dongle back in to get it to work. EDIT: on steam deck with the official dock, in case that matters
VI see why I wasn't experiencing it now, I mainly use the power button to bring up that menu
HThank you, do you know if there is a way to fix these errors? Either way it's great for now
Tim not involved on the development of it, but i guess the best way is reporting which wallpapers dont work to find out which features are missing.
Thttps://github.com/catsout/wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin i think thats the correct git repo of the project
GitHub
A kde wallpaper plugin integrating wallpaper engine - catsout/wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin
CI have 2Gbps down and It's moving at beyond a snails pace for me currently. About 80 kbps
MIs there an easy way to switch between my ingrated Radeon 610M and my discrete 4080, to use waydroid etc?
KDesktop or laptop?
