[Feature Request]: Support Plasma Login Manager.

[beedell-roke]

My Environment

1. Details

   #!/usr/bin/env pwsh
   rpm -qa plasma-smart-video-wallpaper-reborn --queryformat @'
   Name: %{NAME}
   Version: %{VERSION}
   Release: %{RELEASE}
   Architecture: %{ARCH}
   Install Date: %{INSTALLTIME:date}
   Size: %{SIZE}
   Signature: %{SIGPGP:pgpsig}
   Source RPM: %{SOURCERPM}
   Build Date: %{BUILDTIME:date}
   Build Host: %{BUILDHOST}
   Packager: %{PACKAGER}
   Vendor: %{VENDOR}
   '@ | yq -P

2. Name: plasma-smart-video-wallpaper-reborn
   Version: 2.9.0
   Release: 1.fc44
   Architecture: noarch
   Install Date: Mon 18 May 2026 18:01:39 BST
   Size: 224235
   Signature: (none)
   Source RPM: plasma-smart-video-wallpaper-reborn-2.9.0-1.fc44.src.rpm
   Build Date: Thu 29 Jan 2026 12:04:53 GMT
   Build Host: buildvm-ppc64le-20.rdu3.fedoraproject.org
   Packager: Fedora Project
   Vendor: Fedora Project

My Rationale

This feature has been requested at issues/156#issuecomment-3353236408, but because SDDM did not support such plugins, it was rejected.

However, as aforestated there, Plasma Login Manager should support them, and it is the default login manager for Plasma 6.6.5 (in Fedora 44). Yet, PSVWR does not support it:

My Desired Solution

Support Plasma Login Manager.

Considered Alternatives

If PLM does not yet support it, we should file an enhancement ticket at KDE's Bugzilla instance, after asking at KDE's Discourse instance.

Additional Context

@jaredRichardWilliam proposed this, so I'm not the sole requestee!

[luisbocanegra]

Currently Plasma Login Manager does not support wallpaper plugins that need to access other files, as these files are not accessible in the user that runs plasmalogin.

So they have it locked to a hard-coded list of built-in plugins until they have a way to properly support that.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=515163

It is possible to do it from the plasmalogin configuration file https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Plasma_Login_Manager#Custom_wallpaper_plugins but I haven't tried it myself

[AwesomenessZ]

I attempted to enable this plugin through the plasmalogin config file today. Overall it seems to load properly, but after tweaking what I could for pause settings the wallpaper seems to always remain paused on all 3 screens:

cat /etc/plasmalogin.conf

[Greeter]
WallpaperPluginId=luisbocanegra.smart.video.wallpaper.reborn

[Greeter][Wallpaper][luisbocanegra.smart.video.wallpaper.reborn][General]
DebugEnabled=true
ResumeLastVideo=false
CrossfadeEnabled=true
PauseMode=3
PlaybackRate=0.75
RandomMode=true
VideoUrls=...

Debug logs:

Pause Battery: 10% false
Pause Screen Off: false Off: false
Windows: true Blur: false
Video playing: false Blur: false

On Screen Debug:

filename: (file that plays fine on the desktop)
loops: false
currentVideoIndex: 0
changeWallpaperMode: 1
crossfase: true
crossfadeDuration: 500 0 500
multipleVideos: true
player: 1
mediaStatus: 5
player1 playing: false
player2 playing: fakse
position: 0
duration: 322755
resumeLastVideo: false
screenOffPausesVideo: false off false
pauseBattery: below 10% false
playing: false
inLockScreen: false
screenLocked: false
showBlur: falseid: undefined
Audio Device: RemoteSL + ZeroSL Analog Stero

Any insight on what I might be doing wrong here/what isn't being detected properly is appreciated!

[luisbocanegra]

@AwesomenessZ thank you for reporting this, #278 is the culprit. In the lock/login screens there is no Activity so it stays paused 🤦‍♂️

Edit: created #291 for this