KDE5 KWin – Disable Compositor from Command Line

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Is there any way to disable KWin compositing effects from command-line? AFAIK it's possible to disable it via System settings->Hardware->Display and Monitor->Compositor but it requires a KWin restart.If I'm able to disable the compositor from command line , then I can easily assign a shortcut to it.

Any idea?

BTW I use KDE Plasma 5.19.

Best Answer

To disable compositing:

qdbus org.kde.KWin /Compositor suspend

To enable compositing

qdbus org.kde.KWin /Compositor resume

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Systemsettings
Workspace Appearance and Behavior
Window Behavior
KWin Scripts
Get New Script
Tiling
Install
Enable the checkbox of the installed plugin
Apply

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KDE – How to Run a Kwin Script from Command Line

With some hints from here, I managed to get the following to work:

script=/path/to/script

num=$(dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.kde.kwin.Scripting \
  /Scripting \
  org.kde.kwin.Scripting.loadScript \
  string:"$script" |
  awk 'END {print $2}' )

dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.kde.kwin.Scripting \
  /$num \
  org.kde.kwin.Scripting.run

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