fuddlesworth/PlasmaZones v3.0.10

PlasmaZones v3.0.10

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PlasmaZones v3.0.10

Fixed

• Focus-follows-mouse stopped working after any overlay appeared (#461, #517): the focus-follows-mouse stacking-order walk treated the daemon's own full-screen overlay layer-shell surface as a blocking occluder, so once any OSD, snap preview, or layout picker had been shown on an autotile monitor FFM gave up and never resumed. The walk now looks through plasmazonesd and plasmazones-editor surfaces to the real window beneath; real overlays (emoji picker, Spectacle, xdg-desktop-portal) still trip the existing guard.
• Popups and dialogs could consume the main window's saved zone on reopen (#461, #518): the PendingRestore queue was keyed by appId only, so opening any popup or dialog of an app whose main window had previously closed-with-a-zone-assignment consumed the queue's head entry and snapped the popup into that zone. The closing window's structural kind (normal vs transient) is now recorded on each entry, and the consume path refuses to assign an entry to a window of a different kind, leaving it for the next-opening window that does match. Pre-fix on-disk sessions reload with kind=Unknown and the gate stays permissive for them. Steam-class apps whose popups misreport as normal windows still need a separate title-regex follow-up.
• Passive overlay shell stayed mapped and prewarmed with effects disabled (#515, #519): the passive overlay's wl_surface was kept mapped even when no overlay slot was live, and the prewarm path did not respect the effects-enabled toggle, leaking compositor work for users who had turned effects off. The shell now unmaps when idle and prewarm is gated on the effects-enabled setting.
• Animation shader pattern features scaled inconsistently across monitor sizes (#520): sparkle, streak, and smoke feature density was tied to an arbitrary 800px reference, so pattern density drifted across screen sizes. Features now scale by iSurfaceScreenPos.zw (anchor size) for constant per-pixel pitch.

Installation

Arch Linux (AUR):

yay -S plasmazones  # or plasmazones-bin

Arch Linux (manual):

sudo pacman -U plasmazones-3.0.10-*-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

KDE Neon / Debian-based:

sudo dpkg -i plasmazones_3.0.10-*_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):

# Fedora 43
sudo dnf install plasmazones-3.0.10-*.fc43.x86_64.rpm
# Fedora 44
sudo dnf install plasmazones-3.0.10-*.fc44.x86_64.rpm

openSUSE Tumbleweed (manual RPM):

sudo zypper install plasmazones-3.0.10-*.x86_64.rpm

openSUSE Tumbleweed (OBS):

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

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

tar xzf plasmazones-3.0.10-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