KDE 6.4 and day-night wallpaper option

Hey all,

One of the new features of KDE 6.4 is the time of day wallpapers. As seen here This Week in Plasma: time-of-day wallpapers - KDE Blogs under the possitioning there are options to set the time of day wallpaper. I don’t see these settings under wallpaper. Any idea? Is there something missing perhaps?

my inxi is below:

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or set like this on time :wink:

or install Wallpaper Dinamic modul

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i have a similar function on Gnome Plasma if he mean this effect lol.



This was the one feature I was also unable to find when playing around with Plasma 6.4 yesterday. I think @gampel has misunderstood. They seem to be showing Picture of the Day rather than Time of Day pictures. I recall Gnome having Time of Day pictures years ago. Basically you have an image with a brighter version of it and a darker version, and the OS will display the brighter one in the day time and the darker one at night. I can’t find it.

I wonder if there’s a config file that needs to be fresh version (I wouldn’t see why though).

Yes exactly. This is the point. I am not sure if something else needs to be installed to have the option. It seems a very nice addition.

Right, i don`t see/find also not these options.

  • switch to breeze theme (desktop settings)
    Current, tested inside vm
  • garuda-kde-lite edition, the same, nothing to see
  • kde neon "user edition , the same, nothing
  • unstable edition = nothing
  • tested with daylight on
    All systems have a current state but perhaps i’m blind or can’t read right.

Perhaps these options came later but current, i’m blind.

I find this

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Thank you for all the testing you did. I downloaded the developer edition of kde neon and the change is there. Perhaps the feature didn’t make it to tthe 6.4 release.

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Just a final update. It seems that the KDE blog was released after the feature freeze and the feature was not included in the freeze. Seems it is moving to KDE 6.5.

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