Title. Plasma 6 just dropped on my arch-based distro, and it came with an option for a colorblindness correction filter:
Neat little tool that my Protanope ass was very excited about, and it works.
The thing is.
Some time ago Windows also introduced one of those, and in Windows, you can turn it on and off with a key-combination shortcut. I use that a lot on Windows, to keep the filter off and turn it on just when it is necessary (look, every person experiences colorblindness differently, and on my end, these filters while useful for certain kinds of work, are very ugly most other times)
Now, I already know I can set a key-combination shortcut to a terminal command on plasma. Easy peasy.
But for me to do that on plasma I’d need to have a way to switch the effect on and off from the terminal.
I know that I can do systemsettings kcm_kwin_effects
to launch the configs app straight into the relevant tab. But now I’m wondering if I could make that even more automatic, maybe using the --args
thing, which apparently is literally meant for sending commands directly to the configuration module. But then I wouldn’t know what the command is.
Thanks to your hint I did some tinkering.
Made a backup of my
kwinrc
file, enabled the effect plugin, checked thediff
between the backup and the now-changed-by-the-settings-gui file – And indeed there it was, a line sayingcolorblindnesscorrectionEnabled=true
in there.However:
kwriteconfig
seemingly doesn’t work like I thought it did, as just doingkwriteconfig6 colorblindesscorrectionEnabled false
does nothing – This, I imagine, is just me not knowing how to work the command itself.But ALSO!
qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin reconfigure
(after searching “how to reload kde configs from terminal”) and it did nothing, so that is NOT the command I need.Overall promising discoveries, hoping someone can see this and give me the clue I need to make it work.
EDIT: I FOUND IT!
Well good luck finding an answer. Just remember to keep this post updated.
Just did, posted a comment explaining it, will update the main post to mark it solved