System Requirements

System Requirements

Requirement	Notes
KDE Plasma 6	Plasma 5 is not supported by this project.
Qt 6	Required for the QML plugin.
Vulkan 1.1+	Used by the Scene renderer.
C++20 (GCC 10+)	Only relevant if you build from source.
Vulkan driver installed	AMD users: use RADV. See the Arch Wiki Vulkan page.

A working Steam install with Wallpaper Engine is required for Scene and Web wallpapers, since those formats use Wallpaper Engine's own assets.

Checking Vulkan works

# Should print "Vulkan Instance Version: 1.x.x"
vulkaninfo | head -n 5

# Or, for a quick visual test (Arch: vulkan-tools)
vkcube      # opens a spinning cube if Vulkan works

If vkcube won't open or vulkaninfo fails, fix Vulkan before installing this plugin.

GPU notes

• AMD: use RADV (Mesa default). AMDVLK is known to have issues with some Scene wallpapers.
• NVIDIA: use the proprietary driver matching your kernel. Verify with nvidia-smi.
• Intel: ANV is fine — performance varies wildly by generation; cap FPS in the plugin's settings.