Hello. Newb to the forums here. Made the switch from GNOME to KDE about a year ago, and I haven't looked back since.

My main host OS is Fedora 15 x86_64, running KDE 4.6.5. And I have to admit, a lot of my wallpapers are of snow, ice, etc. So the 'snow' effect kinda complimented that. It was available out of the box on 4.6.x, but seems to have been pulled or moved in KDE 4.7.x (I've tried 4.7.0 and 4.7.2). Does it have to be built into KWin somehow? Extra package I need to install? Or was it just booted out of KDE altogether?

Thanks for your time.

from the KDE Commit Digest Feb 2011 http://dot.kde.org/2011/02/23/kde-commi ... ruary-2011

KWin’s problematic "Shadow" and "Snow" effects are removed and await a better implementation in the future

I contacted the "Snow" desktop effect (and lead KWin) developer Martin Gräßlin via his blog yesterday about this.

Apparently the snow plugin needs porting to GLES and completely re-writing.

Martin says he has no plans to do this, so looks like we will have to wait for someone else to take this project up.... any takers?

Best Wishes To All,


itsjustarumour

In old times of KDE1 there was "xsnow" program, I see it's still available in latest Kubuntu. But it may be not what you're looking for

Wizard wrote:In old times of KDE1 there was "xsnow" program, I see it's still available in latest Kubuntu. But it may be not what you're looking for

Ah yes, the venerable XSnow Still available in the repositories, but doesn't seem to work with KDE 4.7.

Looks like there will be no white Christmas for KDE users this year!

Man, NOW I'm sad.

If one wished to reimplement desktop snow, your best bet would be to write a custom Wallpaper.

As an update to this thread, it looks like one developer (not me!) has had a go at updating the Kwin "Snow" desktop effect:

https://launchpad.net/~ivan-safonov/+archive/ppa

It was working for me in KDE 4.10, but appears to have broken again in KDE 4.11.

Could be worth keeping an eye on though in case a new package is released in time for Christmas...

itsjustarumour

Oh, I'd love to have the snow effect back!

Guys, do you have any updates on that?
Few years passed, now it's Plasma-5.8 is stable (Plasma-5.7 is installed in my laptop), but still not snow in official effects.
Is it possible to make it snow again on my desktop? Christmas is coming!

pkozlov wrote:Guys, do you have any updates on that?
Few years passed, now it's Plasma-5.8 is stable (Plasma-5.7 is installed in my laptop), but still not snow in official effects.
Is it possible to make it snow again on my desktop? Christmas is coming!

Earlier KDE Forum: Live Wallpaper Snow for Plasma 5 - viewtopic.php?f=15&t=129561
--> plasma-wallpaper-snow: https://github.com/IvanSafonov/plasma-wallpaper-snow