fuddlesworth/PlasmaZones v2.8.5

PlasmaZones v2.8.5

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PlasmaZones v2.8.5

Fixed

• Master window balloons to 100% on notifications (#271): KWin transiently flipped a tiled window's isMinimized() state to true and back within ~1-2ms whenever a plasmashell notification popup rearranged stacking. The autotile engine recalculated with N-1 windows, tiling the surviving master to the full screen, before unfloating ~ms later. Users saw the master briefly balloon to 100% on every notification; in the worst reported log, the stack window cycled float/unfloat 34 times in a single day with no user interaction. Fixed with two layers of defense: (1) a class-based filter for Plasma shell layer-shell surfaces (plasmashell, plasma.emojier, plasma.notifications, krunner) that don't reliably set isNotification()/isPopupWindow() on Wayland — 508 stray tracking events a day, gone; (2) a 75ms debounce on the minimize→float commit that coalesces spurious minimize/unminimize cycles to zero D-Bus calls. Real user minimizes always last longer than 75ms so they commit normally.
• Cannot re-enable PlasmaZones from settings after killing a terminal-run daemon (#271): When users ran plasmazonesd manually for log collection, systemd's managed instance lost the D-Bus name race and exited; Restart=on-failure retried until StartLimitBurst was exhausted, leaving the unit wedged in failed state. systemctl --user start then silently did nothing until logout. DaemonController::startDaemon now chains reset-failed → start so the settings toggle recovers the unit automatically.

Installation

Arch Linux (AUR):

yay -S plasmazones  # or plasmazones-bin

Arch Linux (manual):

sudo pacman -U plasmazones-2.8.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

KDE Neon / Debian-based:

sudo dpkg -i plasmazones_2.8.5-1_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install -f  # Install dependencies if needed

Fedora (COPR):

sudo dnf copr enable fuddlesworth/PlasmaZones
sudo dnf install plasmazones

Fedora (manual RPM):

sudo dnf install plasmazones-2.8.5-1.fc43.x86_64.rpm

openSUSE Tumbleweed (manual RPM):

sudo zypper install plasmazones-2.8.5-1.x86_64.rpm

openSUSE Tumbleweed (OBS):

sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:ilFrance/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/home:ilFrance.repo
sudo zypper refresh
sudo zypper install plasmazones

Community-maintained package by ilFrance

Universal Linux (AppDir):
For Fedora Atomic, Steam Deck, or non-root user installation:

tar xzf plasmazones-2.8.5-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
cd plasmazones-linux-x86_64
./install.sh

NixOS (flake):

# flake.nix inputs
plasmazones.url = "github:fuddlesworth/PlasmaZones";

# configuration.nix
programs.plasmazones.enable = true;

NixOS (standalone):
Download plasmazones.nix from the release assets, then:

# configuration.nix
environment.systemPackages = [
  (pkgs.callPackage ./plasmazones.nix {})
];

Post-Installation

systemctl --user enable --now plasmazones.service
systemsettings kcm_plasmazones