kwin-effects-startupfeedback-busy-cursor

A fork of the KWin Startup Feedback effect for KDE Plasma 6 with the ability to use the busy/wait cursor instead of drawing the program icon.

This effect only works on Wayland.

Installation

NixOS

flake.nix:

{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";

    kwin-effects-startupfeedback-busy-cursor = {
      url = "github:taj-ny/kwin-effects-startupfeedback-busy-cursor";
      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
    };
  };
}

{ inputs, pkgs, ... }:

{
  environment.systemPackages = [
    inputs.kwin-effects-startupfeedback-busy-cursor.packages.${pkgs.system}.default
  ];
}

Building from source

Dependencies

CMake
Extra CMake Modules
Plasma 6
Qt 6
KF6
KWin development packages

Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S base-devel git extra-cmake-modules qt6-tools

Fedora

sudo dnf install git cmake extra-cmake-modules gcc-g++ kf6-kwindowsystem-devel plasma-workspace-devel libplasma-devel qt6-qtbase-private-devel qt6-qtbase-devel cmake kwin-devel extra-cmake-modules kwin-devel kf6-knotifications-devel kf6-kio-devel kf6-kcrash-devel kf6-ki18n-devel kf6-kguiaddons-devel libepoxy-devel kf6-kglobalaccel-devel kf6-kcmutils-devel kf6-kconfigwidgets-devel kf6-kdeclarative-devel kdecoration-devel kf6-kglobalaccel kf6-kdeclarative libplasma kf6-kio qt6-qtbase kf6-kguiaddons kf6-ki18n wayland-devel

openSUSE

sudo zypper in git cmake-full gcc-c++ kf6-extra-cmake-modules kcoreaddons-devel kguiaddons-devel kconfigwidgets-devel kwindowsystem-devel ki18n-devel kiconthemes-devel kpackage-devel frameworkintegration-devel kcmutils-devel kirigami2-devel "cmake(KF6Config)" "cmake(KF6CoreAddons)" "cmake(KF6FrameworkIntegration)" "cmake(KF6GuiAddons)" "cmake(KF6I18n)" "cmake(KF6KCMUtils)" "cmake(KF6KirigamiPlatform)" "cmake(KF6WindowSystem)" "cmake(Qt6Core)" "cmake(Qt6DBus)" "cmake(Qt6Quick)" "cmake(Qt6Svg)" "cmake(Qt6Widgets)" "cmake(Qt6Xml)" "cmake(Qt6UiTools)" "cmake(KF6Crash)" "cmake(KF6GlobalAccel)" "cmake(KF6KIO)" "cmake(KF6Service)" "cmake(KF6Notifications)" libepoxy-devel kwin6-devel

Building

git clone https://github.com/taj-ny/kwin-effects-startupfeedback-busy-cursor
cd kwin-effects-startupfeedback-busy-cursor
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
make
sudo make install

Remove the build directory when rebuilding the effect.

Usage

Note

If the effect stops working after a system upgrade, you will need to rebuild it.

Install the effect.
Open the Desktop Effects page in System Settings.
Enable the Startup Feedback (Busy Cursor) effect.
Go to Colors & Themes -> Cursors -> Configure Launch Feedback... and set Cursor feedback to None.

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