wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin VS kwin-lowlatency

The guide I mention in the title

I uninstalled and reinstalled wallpaper engine, and this kde plugin restored its cache. So the apps are working briefly, but cannot display. I'm out of ideas at this point

it does work on linux!! here's a kde plugin that lets you use wallpaper engine wallpapers on linux: https://github.com/catsout/wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin

I use Wallpaper Engine for Kde on Garuda (arch) Linux with Wayland & AMD Radeon 6950, see https://github.com/catsout/wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin

If you use the KDE desktop environment you can use the following repo: wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin There is a generic repo but for me it never worked, but I'll leave it here anyways: linux-wallpaperengine

Did you follow the instructions on the githubu repo? Because if you only installed it from KDE Store it'll not work.

See https://github.com/catsout/wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin/issues/162 looks like the same issue.

Involved person commenting on it: https://github.com/tildearrow/kwin-lowlatency/blob/Plasma/5.23/unredirect.md

There's a kwin-lowlatency that has an xorg unredirection (in latest versions) and automatic kwin suspend in kubuntu LTS repo

There is already fullscreen unredirection implementation in kwin-lowlatency but it doesn't work good with multi-monitor and the dev isn't planning to upstream it soon afaik

Maybe attach a bounty offer to a specific feature request in the bug-tracking database, as these guys did: https://github.com/tildearrow/kwin-lowlatency/issues/56 ?

On the github page, the author said that kwin-lowlatency is not dead because of full-screen unredirection capabilities with eliminating stuttering without force composition pipeline (force composition pipeline increase latency and reduce performance I believe).

This didn't go away when disabling full screen unredirection. https://github.com/tildearrow/kwin-lowlatency/issues/95

Piggybacking here: Recent Kwin versions had lots of changes internally. If you're already on newest version, try Kwin-lowlatency or KwinFT.

You can read up on some stuff here regarding KDE: https://github.com/tildearrow/kwin-lowlatency

It used to be there as a feature: fullscreen unredirect. But due to some bugs the kwin team removed it. Last time I checked, https://github.com/tildearrow/kwin-lowlatency supported unredirection and also ran much smoother on high refresh rates.