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I use Endeavour OS (Arch based btw) and I've noticed that when I select to choose a new image as my wallpaper, it doesn't support the .webp format.

Does plasma desktop not support .webp images as wallpaper? Am I doing something wrong?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Go to cloudconvert.com and convert it to jpeg or png. Then it should work.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

magick input.webp output.jpg

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn’t work for me, but this may also be an option.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Just make sure imagemagick is installed. convert input.webp output.jpg will also work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

thanks, I used gimp to convert from .webp to .png. I guess the plasma desktop does not support .webp images as wallpapers then? It would be cool to support them in the future.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Check again in February after plasma 6 releases.

[–] spiffeeroo 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Check if you have qt5-imageformats package installed. It is an optional dependency for kio-extras package that is not installed by default on Arch distros.

I am pretty sure webp works with the wallpaper picker on plasma5 from my experience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

cool, thank you very much

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If it's anything like jxl there was a separate library to install for that. Might check there