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.
Can you please upload a screenshot of what you’re trying to achieve?
Konsole has background blur by default and I use that.
I’ve even seen some people have the ability to have this them in dolphin or other file managers and other apps that it would make sense for.
Well, maybe there’s a way to make dolphin or other apps have transparency or blur, I’ll be honest and say that I don’t know.
But looking at the screenshot you posted, it’s exactly the same thing I have. On the right it’s Konsole and you can enable transparency and blur in Konsole settings without installing any additional software.
On the left you see Dolphin and it’s not transparent or blurred. However, the menus of Dolphin are transparent and blurred. This is because in Plasma you have a desktop effect that makes all menus transparent and/or blurred, it’s a global effect and applies to all menus.
I can’t remember where it is exactly but you don’t need to install any additional software, it’s all built into Plasma.
At least, I have it in KDE + Arch, maybe other distros have slightly different versions of Plasma.
If this is indeed what you want, blurred menus, I can look up where it is enabled once I get to my laptop.
I’m 99% sure I have that enabled, I think it’s just called blur or is easily found by searching blur in the general os search bar. It might even be under “desktop effects > window management”
I posted this as a quick example but I’ve seen people have it blue in a lot of places, I including the windows that are opaque in this shot
Here we go, within the first 30 seconds of this video it’ll showcase it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86ro5Q0Fi34