SUMMARY When you have dynamic wallpapers (day/night wallpapers) and use slideshow as your wallpaper type, they will never change. (for me they are always stuck in the night picture) I tried the dropdown to switch dynamic wallpapers based on plasma style, day/niight cycle, or always light/ dark, but they don't appear to have any function and you cannot apply after changing this setting like you can in the image wallpaper type. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Go to System settings 2. Go to Wallpaper 3. Set Wallpaper to 'Slideshow' 4. untick boxes so that only day/night wallpapers show OBSERVED RESULT - the wallpaper is just not changing at all EXPECTED RESULT - wallpaper would change from day/night based on either the current date/time, plasma colour, or manually setting to day/night SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS System Settings: 6.5.4 KDE Frameworks: 6.21.0 Qt: Using 6.10.1 and built against 6.10.1 Bazzite (Wayland) Build ABI: x86_64-little_endian-lp64 Kernel: linux 6.17.7-ba22.fc43.x86_64 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/6159 might fix it
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/6160
Git commit fc5ae2e95c398b1c731369475ff264cb80f7e40b by Fushan Wen. Committed on 15/01/2026 at 00:56. Pushed by fusionfuture into branch 'master'. wallpapers/slideshow: fix dynamic mode not working in slideshow mode The slideshow backend needs to know the current dynamic mode to provide the corresponding wallpaper to the frontend. FIXED-IN: 6.6 M +2 -15 wallpapers/image/imagepackage/contents/ui/config.qml M +1 -0 wallpapers/image/imagepackage/contents/ui/main.qml M +0 -1 wallpapers/image/plugin/CMakeLists.txt M +56 -2 wallpapers/image/plugin/imagebackend.cpp M +10 -0 wallpapers/image/plugin/imagebackend.h D +0 -28 wallpapers/image/plugin/utils/wallpaperurl.cpp D +0 -27 wallpapers/image/plugin/utils/wallpaperurl.h M +19 -0 wallpapers/image/slideshowpackage/contents/config/main.xml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/fc5ae2e95c398b1c731369475ff264cb80f7e40b
Git commit 351ea8d228f2494794a02c8421b34725ecce0c06 by Fushan Wen. Committed on 17/01/2026 at 00:56. Pushed by fusionfuture into branch 'Plasma/6.6'. wallpapers/slideshow: fix dynamic mode not working in slideshow mode The slideshow backend needs to know the current dynamic mode to provide the corresponding wallpaper to the frontend. FIXED-IN: 6.6 (cherry picked from commit fc5ae2e95c398b1c731369475ff264cb80f7e40b) Co-authored-by: Fushan Wen <qydwhotmail@gmail.com> M +2 -15 wallpapers/image/imagepackage/contents/ui/config.qml M +1 -0 wallpapers/image/imagepackage/contents/ui/main.qml M +0 -1 wallpapers/image/plugin/CMakeLists.txt M +56 -2 wallpapers/image/plugin/imagebackend.cpp M +10 -0 wallpapers/image/plugin/imagebackend.h D +0 -28 wallpapers/image/plugin/utils/wallpaperurl.cpp D +0 -27 wallpapers/image/plugin/utils/wallpaperurl.h M +19 -0 wallpapers/image/slideshowpackage/contents/config/main.xml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/351ea8d228f2494794a02c8421b34725ecce0c06