Variety cannot change wallpapers when KDE widgets locked

[varietywalls]

Variety cannot change wallpapers when KDE widgets locked

[mcwillzz]

Chiming in to say I'm getting the notification that references this article, but Variety is still working? Manjaro KDE w/ kernel 5.16.14

[17hoehbr]

Chiming in to say I'm getting the notification that references this article, but Variety is still working? Manjaro KDE w/ kernel 5.16.14

Also had the same issue in Fedora, but running @elreydetoda's script and restarting Variety removed the notification.

[jlu5]

IIRC this is known behaviour and a KDE limitation; I'm not sure there is another workaround aside from unlocking the widgets.

edit 2018-05-21: Relevant upstream issue: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217950#c47

[qwertyuser1983]

Thank God the old school "change the picture and let the KDE slideshow it" method still works. :)

my "dirty" set_wallpaper script,

# KDE - User will have to manually choose ~/Pictures/variety-wallpaper/ as a slideshow folder with a short interval.
# Afterwards, with the command below, Variety will just overwrite the single file there when changing the wallpaper
# and KDE will refresh it
if [ "`env | grep KDE_FULL_SESSION | tail -c +18`" == "true" ]; then
    mkdir -p "$(xdg-user-dir PICTURES)/variety-wallpaper"
    NEWWP="$(xdg-user-dir PICTURES)/variety-wallpaper/wallpaper-kde-$RANDOM.jpg"
    cp "$WP" "$NEWWP"
    touch "$NEWWP"
    PWDIR=`pwd`
    cd "$(xdg-user-dir PICTURES)/variety-wallpaper/"
    ls -tr "$(xdg-user-dir PICTURES)/variety-wallpaper/" | head -n -1 | xargs --no-run-if-empty rm
    cd "$PWDIR"
    mkdir -p "$(xdg-user-dir PICTURES)/variety-wallpaper2"
    NEWWP="$(xdg-user-dir PICTURES)/variety-wallpaper2/wallpaper-kde.jpg"
    cp "$WP" "$NEWWP"
    touch "$NEWWP"
    PWDIR=`pwd`
    cd "$(xdg-user-dir PICTURES)/variety-wallpaper2/"
    ls -tr "$(xdg-user-dir PICTURES)/variety-wallpaper2/" | head -n -1 | xargs --no-run-if-empty rm
    cd "$PWDIR"
    exit 0
fi

[jlu5]

@qwertyuser1983 I don't see why you need to copy the wallpaper to two folders?

[qwertyuser1983]

@jlu5 Sorry for the late reply,

That for personal need. :)

I (may) need both wallpaper-kde-$RANDOM.jpg and wallpaper-kde.jpg,

wallpaper-kde-$RANDOM.jpg is used with KDE Slideshow for my desktop

wallpaper-kde.jpg is used for wallpaper apps that did not support slideshow, like LightDM-greeter-setting. :)

Furthermore, I am sorry that I am not familiar with Python script yet, hence I just copy everything.

This is the very reason why I call it "dirty". :P

[supertriodo]

Hi,
I'm using openSuse tumbleweed with kde plasma and variety can't change the wallpapers even with the widgets unlocked.

[jlu5]

Can you check if the problem is still present in the latest Git master? #183 may be a relevant issue

[jlu5]

I believe the problems mentioned here are fixed by #167 and #183 in Git master - please leave a reply if this is not the case.

[lunelovehearn]

this issue still happens on the latest kde plasma update on latest arch. it was working fine but it broke.

running Arch with kernel 5.16.2 and kde plasma 5.23.5
you no longer can unlock the widgets due to a kde team change on plasma.
I hope this gets fixed as I miss the quotes on the desktop feature and I can't find other app that does the same for kde.

[elreydetoda]

I just had this happen to me on Kubuntu 21.10 5.13.0, and I found this video: https://youtu.be/VMVsKEiQvO4

@kazuhiroshigeru, you should be able to just run this and re-launch variety and it'll work (or it did for me):

qdbus org.kde.plasmashell /PlasmaShell evaluateScript "lockCorona(false)"