#Blur Cinnamon with new Dynamic Blur!

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devout ferry
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WHAT

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This shows dynamic blurring for the Menus, Panels and Notification area. With a video so you can see it in action.

late mason
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I can see a new linux mint ricing era coming

devout ferry
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my translucent terminal is going to look even better

ruby dove
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nice

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@glossy remnant

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safe wraith
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HOW WHAT

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MINT DYNAMIC BLUR BEFORE COSMIC

smoky crystal
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Cooked hard

glossy remnant
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like how did you get that dynamic blur?

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please tell

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Dynamic blur options are currently only in my GitHub version. It will be a week or two before I push the changes to the Cinnamon Spices repo! So if anyone wants to help test it you can install my GitHub version and report any issues you find.

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GitHub - klangman/BlurCinnamon: A Cinnamon extension to Blur and Co...

A Cinnamon extension to Blur and Colorize parts of the Cinnamon Desktop - klangman/BlurCinnamon

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Currently the Dynamic blur options exist for Menus, Panels, Notifications and Panel Tooltips. Dynamic blurring for Application Window backgrounds is still giving me a few issues so it's not enabled yet even in my Github version.

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If anyone is curious how it was accomplished. I create clones of each window on the desktop that overlaps with a blurred area. I then add those clones to the Background Actor object then apply Effects to the Background Actor. The blurred Background Actor is then clipped down to the size of the Cinnamon component being blurred.

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Oh I'd love to give that a try, I've used this one and some of your other extensions before too, thanks for developing such an awesome tool!

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As for performance. On my Ryzen7 I see about 1% CPU burn when a main menu sized blur has a video running in the background. It costs just a bit more then the CPU burn of the VLC video player that is playing the video.

devout ferry
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trying it rn

glossy remnant
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@shut arrow sorry I don't have a github account, so posting this here
See the notification, the actual popup and the other window containing the blur always appear with an offset. Is this intended or a bug?
Personally I saw this effect in previous versions of blur cinnamon extension too. Does this have anything to do with the theme I'm using?

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Might be the theme or it might be the location difference from how I test. What theme do you use? I'll test with a bottom right notification location.

glossy remnant
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I just tested the "Show notifications on the bottom side of the screen" option and the blurring gets all messed up. I'll work on fixing that.

glossy remnant
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tysm!

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@glossy remnant Notification issues should be fixed in the latest push to my repo.

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# glossy remnant I just checked, works like a charm! Thank you! I was curious, is dynamic blur fo...

Dynamic blur is only useful for five components, it already exist for four (Menus, Notifications, Panels and Tooltips). This leave Application Windows. I did attempt to get it working but I hit some Cinnamon crash. I'll be working on that over the next week, I suspect I can make it work using the same general approach so I am hopeful that it will be enabled soon, but I can't promise anything. As for the rest of the components (Expo, Overview, Alt-Tab, Desklets, Desktop-Background), those can't have windows under the blurring, so there is no point in Dynamic blur for those cases.

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I got Dynamic Blur windows working, but there are a lot of annoying artifacts. I could push the changes if you guys wanted to test it, but there is a chance I might have leave dynamic blur for windows disabled until/if I can find a fix for the artifacts.

devout ferry
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Actually, I think the artifacts were just caused by some bugs in Blur Cinnamon. I'll push some code later today or tomorrow I suspect. ... Edit.. I take it back.. Still see some artifacts, just less frequently.

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OK.. I pushed an "experimental" Dynamic blur for windows support. Let me know if you guys see the same flashing in an out for parts of windows in the background of a blurred window.

devout ferry
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Ya, that's kind of the same as what I am seeing. But you are getting the window to stop moving, which I don't see. I guess I can leave it in as an "experimental" feature which should be enough to make people think twice before enabling it. Maybe one day I can find some solution, but for now I will work on making sure that Dynamic Blur for Panels, Menus, Notifications and Tooltips are working well so I can update the Cinnamon Spices version.

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@devout ferry @glossy remnant I have been trying to debug an issue. Wondering if you guys are hitting the same issue. With dynamic blur on panels and a blurred window (static or dynamic). Switch to a new workspace, then back to the original workspace. Now attempt to move the blurred window over the panel, which works fine, but when you move the window off the panel thing go wonky. Bring up a blurred popup menu (i.e right clink the panel) will sort things out again. Does the same thing happen for you guys?

glossy remnant
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sorry I should have captured the cursor, but I did exactly as you said to reproduce the issue

devout ferry
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oo forgot to film the right click thing but yes it brings the panel back to normal

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@devout ferry @glossy remnant I pushed a fix for this issue, well, more of a work-around but in any case the issue should be gone now. Can you guys test to make sure the work-around works on your systems? Another step closer to being good enough to push to cinnamon spices.

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will let you know as soon as I can

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Pushed Blur Cinnamon 2.0 to Cinnamon Spices. Hopefully it will be merged soon. Thanks for the help with testing @glossy remnant @devout ferry