My "favourite" bug workaround is for the KDE Plasma 5 desktop wallpaper changer which degrades the pictures being used (by blurring, almost ruining) whenever do

My "favourite" bug workaround is for the KDE Plasma 5 desktop wallpaper changer which degrades the pictures being used (by blurring, almost ruining) whenever downscaling them (when they are larger than the desktop's native resolution), something lots and lots of KDE users are complaining about. There is no fix released yet but, being a creative user, I resorted to installing "variety", a very cool desktop wallpaper changer (and downloader). As Variety can apply ImageMagick filters on the fly to the wallpaper being set, I set it up so that it just scaled down and cropped the image to my exact desktop resolution. This fixed the issue for me... at least, temporarily :) To set up the filter, I edited the ~/.config/variety/variety.conf, and changed the line: filter1 = ... to filter1 = True|Keep original|-scale '<my desktop resolution, eg. 1920x1080>^' -gravity center -extent <my desktop resolution, eg. 1920x1080> Then I configured Variety to generate a single wallpaper file in a folder which is "watched" by the KDE Plasma desktop wallpaper changer, with the same interval. Voilà!