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Vaela 1.0.0

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@PreCosmos PreCosmos released this 26 Oct 18:34
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v1.0.0
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Vaela 1.0 gives every workspace its own video or picture background.

What's new

  • A background per workspace. Pick a video or picture for each workspace under Backgrounds in Vaela Settings, or from a workspace's ⋯ menu in the workspace bar. Switching workspaces crossfades between backgrounds, and a video carries on where it left off when you come back. One click uses a background for every workspace.
  • Your Plasma wallpaper stays. Workspaces without a background keep it. Remove the last background and Plasma's own wallpaper comes back.
  • Options:
    • Fill, Fit or Stretch
    • Mute (on by default) and volume. With sound on, only one monitor plays it, so the same video on several screens doesn't echo.
    • Playback speed from 0.25× to 2×
    • Dim and blur, to keep icons readable
    • Crossfade length
    • Pause while windows cover the screen and pause on battery, both on by default. Videos with sound keep playing behind windows.
  • Formats: WebM (VP9/AV1) plays everywhere. MP4 (H.264/HEVC) needs a full FFmpeg, which Bazzite has and Fedora gets from RPM Fusion. Pictures can be PNG, JPEG, WebP, AVIF, JPEG XL, SVG, BMP or an animated GIF. Hardware decoding is used where the driver supports it. A file that won't play shows your Plasma wallpaper instead.
  • Scriptable: qdbus-qt6 org.vaela.Shell /Shell setBackground 2 file:///path/to/video.webm

Backgrounds appear on the monitors Vaela runs on (Settings → Monitors).

Requirements

  • Fedora 44 or 45, x86_64, with current updates: both releases ship KWin 6.7.5, and the RPM requires exactly that version.
  • Check your release with rpm -E %fedora, then pick the matching file below.

Install

Fedora Atomic (Bazzite, Kinoite, Silverblue), Fedora 45:

rpm-ostree install ./vaela-desktop-1.0.0-1.fc45.x86_64.rpm

Upgrading from an earlier Vaela RPM:

rpm-ostree install --uninstall vaela-desktop ./vaela-desktop-1.0.0-1.fc45.x86_64.rpm

Fedora Workstation:

sudo dnf install ./vaela-desktop-1.0.0-1.fc45.x86_64.rpm

On Fedora 44, use the fc44 file instead. Log out and choose Vaela at the login screen.

SHA256SUMS lists the checksums of all four files.

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