I've had this for quite some time, 'Switch dynamic wallpaper' settings work perfectly fine for both light and dark GIF wallpapers except when setting 'Based on Day/Night cycle`, the function seems to work fine for PNG images but not GIF for some reason even though they work perfectly fine as a wallpaper. You can test this with any two GIF wallpapers, refer to https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1ohsvov/plasma_65s_daynight_wallpapers_how_to/ on making a user-directory installation.
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Yeah, sorry I forget that part always :) Steps: 1) Get any 2 GIF wallpapers: https://imgur.com/gallery/pixel-art-gif-wallpaper-dump-dKalV 2) Follow instructions here: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1ohsvov/plasma_65s_daynight_wallpapers_how_to/ to create the directory structure of Day/Night wallpaper in "~/.local/share/wallpapers", you can use the Orionids wallpaper structure in "/usr/share/wallpapers/Next" for reference. 3) After creating the wallpaper, apply it in systemsettings, make sure 'Switch dynamic wallpaper' is set to "Based on the day/night cycle". 4) Plasma will set only the "image_dark" wallpaper across all times, but proper switching of 'light' and 'dark' images will happen when you set 'Switch dynamic wallpaper' to "Based on whether Plasma style is light or dark" or "Always use light/dark variant". Interesting part: If you replace the GIF wallpapers for PNG/JPGs, they will switch properly with "Based on the day/night cycle" setting and they will also have the Day/Night badge as you can see with Orionids, where you can't with GIFs for some reason. Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.21.0 Qt Version: 6.10.1
Created attachment 188087 [details] Day/Night wallpaper badge in Orionids
Created attachment 188088 [details] No badge on user generated GIF wallpaper
Created attachment 188089 [details] Sample wallpaper Here's a sample of Day/Night GIF wallpapers for testing, note that the images inside are not mine in any respect.
Place them inside ~/.local/share/wallpapers/
Animated images are not supported intentionally due to the technical reasons.
Is this mentioned anywhere in the UI when the user picks an animated wallpaper? If not, that probably needs to happen so the limitation is clear, and we don't get bug reports about. it :)
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #8) > Is this mentioned anywhere in the UI when the user picks an animated > wallpaper? If not, that probably needs to happen so the limitation is clear, > and we don't get bug reports about. it :) You should(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #8) > Is this mentioned anywhere in the UI when the user picks an animated > wallpaper? If not, that probably needs to happen so the limitation is clear, > and we don't get bug reports about. it :) You shouldn't see the lighttable icon in the top right corner. To be fair, perhaps there could be a better way to communicate that :D
It's a damn shame, of course one could automate the wallpaper switching themselves via cronjob/systemd timer running 'plasma-apply-wallpaperimage /path/to/gif' , but that means the day/night cycle is effectively useless for me, any way to disable it?
Created attachment 188609 [details] systemd{timer,service} files for automatic GIF wallpaper switching > one could automate the wallpaper switching themselves via cronjob/systemd timer running 'plasma-apply-wallpaperimage /path/to/gif' Here's a systemd example for those interested. For now I've masked the 'plasma-knighttimed' user service.
Hey Vlad is that restriction for animated images defined somewhere, in case I could remove it for myself?
Nvm I found it and I also saw the limitation you were talking about.