Disabling KWin 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.

score 20 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 22 '20 at 10:40

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To disable compositing:

qdbus org.kde.KWin /Compositor suspend

To enable compositing

qdbus org.kde.KWin /Compositor resume

answered Jul 22 '20 at 10:40

Artem S. Tashkinov

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I get `Service 'org.kde.KWin' does not exist.`. – Zamicol Sep 16 '22 at 18:26
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@Zamicol The answer worked two years ago, I don't follow KDE development, so I can't say what works nowadays. I'll check if it's changed. – Artem S. Tashkinov Sep 19 '22 at 09:17
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I've checked the latest preview build of KDE, i.e. KDE Plasma 5.25.90, KDE Frameworks 5.98.0 and **it works just fine**: https://imgur.com/a/XhZjH2t – Artem S. Tashkinov Sep 19 '22 at 09:27
Still works fine in 2022 on Plasma 5.26.4 – tobek Dec 07 '22 at 03:01

score 7 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 22 '20 at 10:12

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Shift + Alt + F12 is the droid you are looking for.

edited Jul 22 '20 at 10:12

AdminBee

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answered Jul 22 '20 at 08:58

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 16 '22 at 20:19

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When I turned on compositing, it broke the setting window so I couldn't turn it back off again.

I logged in using gnome/mate, opened plasma-open-settings and was able to disable it again.

answered Sep 16 '22 at 20:19

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Disabling KWin compositor from command-line

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