fuddlesworth/PlasmaZones v3.0.17

PlasmaZones v3.0.17

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PlasmaZones v3.0.17

Fixed

• PlasmaZones held back KWin upgrades, stranding Plasma in a half-upgraded state: the native packages pinned KWin to the exact version PlasmaZones was built against (to guarantee the KWin effect plugin's IID matched the running KWin). On distros that ship KWin and PlasmaZones from separate repos (e.g. Fedora KWin from the distro, PlasmaZones from COPR), a newer KWin landing before a matching PlasmaZones rebuild could not satisfy the exact pin, so the package manager held KWin back. That left KWin out of sync with the rest of Plasma, which surfaced as "No KScreen backend found" and, at worst, a black screen at login (reported on Fedora 44 / Plasma 6.7). The runtime dependency is now a minimum (kwin >= 6.7.0) across the RPM, Debian, and Arch (source/bin/git) packages instead of an exact pin, so a newer KWin no longer blocks the upgrade. A mismatched effect is harmless — KWin reads the IID from plugin metadata and never loads a non-matching effect, so the plugin stays inert and only the drag overlay is missing until PlasmaZones is rebuilt; core tiling (daemon + layer-shell QPA plugin) is unaffected. Nix is unchanged: it has no install-time pin and rebuilds the whole system, so it cannot strand the desktop.

Installation

Arch Linux (AUR):

yay -S plasmazones  # or plasmazones-bin

Arch Linux (manual):

sudo pacman -U plasmazones-3.0.17-*-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

KDE Neon / Debian-based:

sudo dpkg -i plasmazones_3.0.17-*_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 44
sudo dnf install plasmazones-3.0.17-*.fc44.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-3.0.17-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