2.15.0 (2026-09-20)
Release highlights
- Switching between videos is now smoother.
- It is now possible to set different videos depending on the dark/light mode or Day-Night cycle. Integration with Plasma's Day-Night cycle requires building the project from source or installing from a distribution package
- Preview videos from the videos list
- Option to select which GPU is used for video decoding please leave your feedback in #142 or our Discord server
- Video now resumes playback when Peeking at Desktop
- Window tracking now works as expected when using Per Screen virtual desktops
Features
- add button to show video preview on hover (5464c21), closes #188
- add day-night cycle (#233) (420afbc)
- add French translation (beabd6f)
- audio fade in and out (7cbb79a), closes #270
- crossfade animation is now cubic instead of linear (#312) (85626ea)
- load ahead time to work around blank frames between videos #208 (e4e6281)
- resume playback on windowaperture effect (Peek at/Show desktop) (30b6f8f), closes #37 #101
- video decoding configuration (c049ad9)
Bug Fixes
- day-night cycle detection on startup (638994a)
- day-night phase button checked state (09059f1)
- enable clipping for DropArea (3e597d6), closes #268
- gdbus_get_signal.sh leaking tail processes on every ScreenSaver signal (e4cc9cd), closes #267
- not looping if crossfade is enabled with a single video (e15e000)
- pause on fullscreen window not working (01e54ce)
- undefined wallpaper property error (f4c5cdf)
- window tracking in Plasma 6.7 (c80ad8d)
Showcase
Day-night cycle
2026-09-11_06-03-15.mp4
Video previews
Screencast_20260918_181607.webm
Video decoding configuration
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