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Vaela 1.1.0

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@PreCosmos PreCosmos released this 26 Oct 18:59
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Vaela 1.1 fixes where background sound plays and gives every workspace its own background options.

What's new

  • Sound follows your output. Background videos now play on Plasma's default audio output, and move with it when you switch, for example to Bluetooth headphones. In 1.0 they stayed on whatever device was the default when Plasma started.
  • Options per workspace. Scaling (Fill/Fit/Stretch), mute, volume, playback speed, dim and blur are now set separately for each workspace. Click a workspace in the Backgrounds list to change its options, or use Use on every workspace to copy them to the others. Crossfades keep each workspace's own look while they blend.
  • Pause videos while any window is open: a new option, off by default.
  • Pause videos even when their sound is on: a new option, off by default. A video you're listening to keeps playing behind windows unless you turn this on.
  • Fix: a background file that failed to load is now retried once its workspace gets a new background.

Your 1.0 background settings carry over as the starting point for every workspace.

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-1.1.0-1.fc45.x86_64.rpm

Upgrading from an earlier Vaela RPM:

rpm-ostree install --uninstall vaela-desktop ./vaela-desktop-1.1.0-1.fc45.x86_64.rpm

Fedora Workstation:

sudo dnf install ./vaela-desktop-1.1.0-1.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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