Toggling compositing KWin5 / plasma (useful for steam)

syderitic · 2015-06-08 23:59:39

Hum....couldn't find anything on this and it really speeds things up (FPS wise).

Decided to share:

if [ `qdbus org.kde.KWin /Compositor org.kde.kwin.Compositing.active` = true ]; then qdbus org.kde.KWin /Compositor org.kde.kwin.Compositing.suspend; else qdbus org.kde.KWin /Compositor org.kde.kwin.Compositing.resume; fi

Soukyuu · 2015-06-09 12:17:23

...or you could just press shift+alt+F12

Sunday87 · 2017-03-01 14:11:33

I know, this post is quite old. But I had the very same idea today and came up with an automatic solution:

alex@galaxy:~$ cat /usr/local/bin/suspend_compositing 
#!/bin/bash

qdbus org.kde.KWin /Compositor suspend

$*

qdbus org.kde.KWin /Compositor resume

This will disable compositing, run any command from the trailing command line and resume compositing afterwards with the current KWin

In Steam i set the Launch Options for every game to:

suspend_compositing optirun %command%

and whenever I start a game compositing will be paused and my dedicated gpu will be activated automatically.

WorMzy · 2017-03-01 14:47:26

Thanks for sharing. I'm going to go ahead and close this now.

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#1 2015-06-08 23:59:39

Toggling compositing KWin5 / plasma (useful for steam)

#2 2015-06-09 12:17:23

Re: Toggling compositing KWin5 / plasma (useful for steam)

#3 2017-03-01 14:11:33

Re: Toggling compositing KWin5 / plasma (useful for steam)

#4 2017-03-01 14:47:26

Re: Toggling compositing KWin5 / plasma (useful for steam)

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