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PranshuTG

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Registered: 2022-04-01

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How to turn on compositor when fullscreen app is inactive

I use KDE Desktop with KWin
The default gpu is Amd integrated

I was wondering if its possible to re enable the compositor when a full screen window is inactive without disabling blocking the compositor

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,263

Re: How to turn on compositor when fullscreen app is inactive

You could do a script that checks the active window and then uses KWin's DBUS interface to dis-/reenable the compositor. Not on my Arch so a bit difficult to provide specifics, but this should generally be possible.

Alternatively consider testing a Wayland session where you can't disable the compositor but also don't have many of the drawbacks you have on Xorg from this being the case.