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Description:

Smaragd is a window decoration engine for the KDE window manager KWin. It allows you to use Emerald theme files (from Compiz/Beryl) with KDE's Plasma 5 or KDE SC 4.

Please read on before writing bug reports!

Installation and Usage
* You have to compile from source, needs cairo, glib2 and KDecoration2 or kdebase-workspace development headers (see INSTALL file)
* Restart KWin when you had a previous version installed
* The *.emerald theme file has to be extracted to $HOME/.emerald/theme (make sure the file $HOME/.emerald/theme/theme.ini exists)
* You can also use the original Emerald theme manager to install and modify themes, but it is not needed for running
* There are over 1800 themes available, browse them on https://store.kde.org/browse/cat/117

Known Bugs
* Shadow offsets are broken
* No theme installation/configuration dialog

Smaragd is developed in KDE's git repository, see https://cgit.kde.org/smaragd.git/

Last changelog:

0.1.1 3 years ago

* fix crash when closing windows

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codix
1 month ago

A S H A M E !!! So much stuff to install to make this. You know we are more user than developers that's why we want to install themes... NOT C++ FOR BUILDING YOUR CODE !!! I will see to make a command to install all the dependencies of this shame for help newbie like me.

flinx68
5 months ago

This extra button on kde4 is ok: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=48&v=61sOLQD1qmI&feature=emb_logo

flinx68
5 months ago

Hello Skulptor the extra buttons are not visible, can you fix?

xeno-idaltu
9 months ago

10 10 the best

xeno-idaltu
9 months ago

I install it this morning on Kubuntu 18.04 LTS and confirm it to be working!

Ubuntu-based Troubleshooting:
1) kdebase-workspace is outdated, download "kdebase-runtime" instead.

2) kf5widgetsaddons can be found as "libkf5widgetsaddons-dev"

3) kdecoration2 is "libkdecorations2-dev"

4) I had Cairo installed but was giving errors because of cairo.h, install "libcairo2-dev"

Summary:
$ sudo apt install libglib2.0-0 kdebase-runtime libkf5widgetsaddons-dev libkdecorations2-dev libkdecorations2-5v5 libkdecorations2private5v5 libkdecore5 libcairo2-dev

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Thank you so much for letting us use your work! Smaragd is amazing!!

Any Bitcoin Donation Address?

Pyruzan
11 months ago

10 Please keep it maintained and updated.

zinjanthr0pus
1 year ago

Just in case it helps anyone, I was able to get this to work with Plasma 5.13 in openSUSE Tumbleweed. One of the dependencies listed in the installation instructions appears to be outdated. It is kdebase-workspace (kdebase4-workspace-devel in the repositories). I was able to install it using systemsettings5-devel instead. I might have had to force it or something. I don't quite remember.
Also, I'm really glad someone made this plugin, emerald themes are way easier to tweak than aurorae themes, so this allowed me to get a much nicer looking window decoration that I otherwise would have. My only complaint is that fullscreen windows look janky. To be fair this also seems to be true of the majority of aurorae themes that I tried as well, though in a different way. Oh I guess it would also be nice if this plugin supported text outlines like emerald. That would look really nice with my current window decorations

skulptor
1 year ago

... or simply install "kwin-smaragd" from "KDE:Extra" repository.

zinjanthr0pus
1 year ago

I did not know of this KDE:Extra repository. Damn, now I feel dumb.

sentry812
1 year ago

Hi,
I had to find online commands to install smaragd in a slightly different way, but my problem is that the $HOME/.emerald/theme directory does not exist at all, so I have nowhere to extract my uncompressed emerald file. Help?

zinjanthr0pus
1 year ago

This might be a stupid question, but have you tried "mkdir $HOME/.emerald/theme"?

zinjanthr0pus
1 year ago

Or just installing the emerald theme manager. That's how I'm doing it (but I also have all of compiz reloaded installed)

introlinux
2 years ago

I have compiled and installed Smaragd and my .emerald theme ready, but nothing appears in window decorations. I'm in Kde Neon 5.10.

stalin2000
2 years ago

Hi, thanks for Smaragd! Will there be a update for KDE5. That would be truely wonderful!

cinnamoner
3 years ago

@skulptor Excellent.

Moony
5 years ago

Can you port this to work with KDE5 / qt5?

skulptor
5 years ago

I am still on KDE4, and not sure when I will switch. Right now, there are too many bugs, especially with decoration settings.

Moony
4 years ago

KDE 5 still supports Aurorae, so I've been working on a script that converts emerald themes to aurorae. I mostly have the vrunner engine working, but mapping settings between all the emerald engines and aurorae is not the easiest thing!

yevhensayenko
6 years ago

i got error:
CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND.
Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in the CMake files:
QT_QT_INCLUDE_DIR
used as include directory in directory /home/sym/Downloads/smaragd-0.0.7/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp

CMake Error: Internal CMake error, TryCompile configure of cmake failed

CMake Error at /usr/share/kde4/apps/cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake:1311 (message):
Unable to compile a basic Qt application. Qt has not been found correctly.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
/usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindKDE4.cmake:95 (find_package)
CMakeLists.txt:9 (find_package)

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

miksedk
5 years ago

Install kdebase-workbase-dev and it compiles all the way through.

skulptor
6 years ago

If you compile from source, you also need the required -dev packages. Just follow the error messages.

yevhensayenko
6 years ago

I do not understand what to do. Could you explain?

Ubuntu88
6 years ago

...but gotta admit it is a little bit of a bother to use different emerald themes if you don't have the Emerald theme manager installed. But it isn't that much trouble to rename theme folders from theme to theme-a then theme-b to theme. ;)

Thanks! I kinda like this better than kwin-style-Dekorator!

erngab
8 years ago

Buttons in inactive window with a strange shadow - buttons are slightly shifted to the right.
Active windows is OK

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/1156/selection001dm.png

Regards

erngab
8 years ago

Everything is OK
I had some problem with the size of buttons.
Thanks nice work.

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0.1.1 3 years ago

* fix crash when closing windows

0.1.0 3 years ago

* port to KDecoration2 (KWin5). Needs Plasma 5.2 or newer.

9 years ago

0.0.7 (svn version r1179589)
* Add support for themes without pixmap buttons
* Fix button glow centering

0.0.6 (svn version r1160092)
* Add button hover animation (KDE 4.4)
* Fix resizing from top border
* Fix corners in some themes (e.g. "Ordinary")

0.0.5 (svn version r1137929)
* Add option to use KWin title text colors
* Add support for customizable decoration shadows

0.0.4.svn1132360
* Fix crash with pixmap engine
* Fix crash when no theme is installed

0.0.4 (svn version r1132157)
* Fix corners with some themes
* Add support for button glow
* Improve maximized window layout
* Enable vrunner title text glow

0.0.3 (svn version r1131112)
* Detect corners for KWin shadows

0.0.2 (svn version r1129697)
* Initial release

0.0.1
* Proof of concept

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xeno-idaltu Aug 12 2019 10 the best

10 the best

Pyruzan Jun 17 2019 10 the best

Please keep it maintained and updated.

cinnamoner Mar 17 2017 9 excellent

mirkogennari Jan 03 2017 9 excellent

Stalker-medik Oct 13 2014 9 excellent

DeltaResero Apr 30 2013 9 excellent

KingSphinx Sep 08 2012 9 excellent

dotNet Aug 26 2012 9 excellent

reveng Aug 04 2012 9 excellent

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originalseed Dec 12 2011 9 excellent

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