/KDE-Rounded-Corners

Rounds the corners of your windows

Primary LanguageC++GNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

KDE-Rounded-Corners

This effect rounds the corners of your windows. Window borders should be turned off for the effect to work. How?

This is a fork of shapecorners with some additional contributions in Alex47's project.

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Tested on:

After

Contributions:

  • Compatible with KWin 5.23 and 5.24 - by matinlotfali
  • Disable effect when window gets maximized - by matinlotfali
  • Added Latte Dock to ignore list - by gikari
  • Cleanups for the plugin logic, remove unneeded dependencies from CMakeLists.txt file - by alex1701c

How to build from source code:

You need to install development packages for your distrobution first:

Debian based (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, KDE Neon) - by alex47:

sudo apt install git cmake g++ gettext extra-cmake-modules qttools5-dev libqt5x11extras5-dev libkf5configwidgets-dev libkf5globalaccel-dev libkf5notifications-dev kwin-dev

Fedora - by matinlotfali

sudo dnf install git cmake gcc-c++ extra-cmake-modules qt5-qttools-devel qt5-qttools-static qt5-qtx11extras-devel kf5-kconfigwidgets-devel kf5-kcrash-devel kf5-kguiaddons-devel kf5-kglobalaccel-devel kf5-kio-devel kf5-ki18n-devel kwin-devel qt5-qtbase-devel libepoxy-devel

Arch - by hexa-one

sudo pacman -S git cmake extra-cmake-modules base-devel
yay -S qt5-tools

or AUR package by Shaurya-Kalia

sudo pamac build kde-rounded-corners

OpenSUSE - by mathiasgredal

sudo zypper install git cmake gcc-c++ extra-cmake-modules libqt5-qttools-devel libqt5-qtx11extras-devel kconfigwidgets-devel kguiaddons-devel kglobalaccel-devel ki18n-devel knotifications-devel kwin5-devel libQt5Gui-devel libQt5OpenGL-devel libepoxy-devel

Void - by lay-by

xbps-install git cmake make qt5-tools-devel extra-cmake-modules qt5-x11extras-devel gettext-devel kwin-devel

Then get the source code and compile:

git clone https://github.com/matinlotfali/KDE-Rounded-Corners
cd KDE-Rounded-Corners
mkdir qt5build
cd qt5build
cmake ../ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DQT5BUILD=ON
make
sudo make install

You can now logout and log back in or run the command below to have it activated.

kwin_x11 --replace &

Settings

You need to turn off the border size in:

System Settings --> Application Style --> Window Decoration

You can change corner radius, or disable the effect in:

System Settings --> Workspace Behavior --> Desktop Effects --> ShapeCorners

To fully uninstall, simply run the command sudo make uninstall inside qt5build directory