not working

[Lostinaa]

this isnt working can u please help me ive installed and built and done everything u said but its not working

[taj-ny]

What exactly do you mean by "isnt working"? Is it not showing up in desktop effects? What distribution and Plasma version are you using?

[Lostinaa]

The C compiler identification is GNU 14.2.1
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 14.2.1
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
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-- Performing Test HAVE_DATE_TIME
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-- Found OpenGL: /usr/lib/libOpenGL.so
-- Found WrapOpenGL: TRUE
-- Found XKB: /usr/lib/libxkbcommon.so (found suitable version "1.7.0", minimum required is "0.5.0")
-- Found WrapVulkanHeaders: /usr/include
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-- Found KF6ConfigWidgets: /usr/lib/cmake/KF6ConfigWidgets/KF6ConfigWidgetsConfig.cmake (found version "6.9.0")
-- Found KF6CoreAddons: /usr/lib/cmake/KF6CoreAddons/KF6CoreAddonsConfig.cmake (found version "6.9.0")
-- Found KF6Crash: /usr/lib/cmake/KF6Crash/KF6CrashConfig.cmake (found version "6.9.0")
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-- Found X11: /usr/include
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-- Found KF6Service: /usr/lib/cmake/KF6Service/KF6ServiceConfig.cmake (found version "6.9.0")
-- Found KF6Notifications: /usr/lib/cmake/KF6Notifications/KF6NotificationsConfig.cmake (found version "6.9.0")
-- Found KF6WidgetsAddons: /usr/lib/cmake/KF6WidgetsAddons/KF6WidgetsAddonsConfig.cmake (found version "6.9.0")
-- Found KF6WindowSystem: /usr/lib/cmake/KF6WindowSystem/KF6WindowSystemConfig.cmake (found version "6.9.0")
-- Found KF6GuiAddons: /usr/lib/cmake/KF6GuiAddons/KF6GuiAddonsConfig.cmake (found version "6.9.0")
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-- Found XCB_XCB: /usr/lib/libxcb.so (found version "1.17.0")
-- Found XCB: /usr/lib/libxcb.so (found version "1.17.0") found components: XCB
-- Found Wayland_Server: /usr/lib/libwayland-server.so (found version "1.23.1")
-- Found Wayland: /usr/lib/libwayland-server.so (found version "1.23.1") found components: Server
CMake Warning at CMakeLists.txt:84 (find_package):
By not providing "FindKDecoration3.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project
has asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by
"KDecoration3", but CMake did not find one.

Could not find a package configuration file provided by "KDecoration3" with
any of the following names:

KDecoration3Config.cmake
kdecoration3-config.cmake

Add the installation prefix of "KDecoration3" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
"KDecoration3_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files. If
"KDecoration3" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it
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-- The following OPTIONAL packages have been found:

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• KF6Service (required version >= 5.240.0)
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• epoxy
• KWin
• Qt6Gui (required version >= 6.7.0)
• KWinDBusInterface

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• KDecoration3

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[Lostinaa]

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"SRC:/src/main.cpp"
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/home/dopy/kwin-effects-forceblur/src/kcm/blur_config.ui: Warning: The name 'horizontalSpacer_2' (QSpacerItem) is already in use, defaulting to 'horizontalSpacer_21'.
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/home/dopy/kwin-effects-forceblur/src/blur.cpp: In member function ‘virtual void KWin::BlurEffect::reconfigure(KWin::Effect::ReconfigureFlags)’:
/home/dopy/kwin-effects-forceblur/src/blur.cpp:235:47: warning: unused parameter ‘flags’ [-Wunused-parameter]
235 | void BlurEffect::reconfigure(ReconfigureFlags flags)
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~
/home/dopy/kwin-effects-forceblur/src/blur.cpp: In member function ‘void KWin::BlurEffect::blur(KWin::BlurRenderData&, const KWin::RenderTarget&, const KWin::RenderViewport&, KWin::EffectWindow*, int, const QRegion&, KWin::WindowPaintData&)’:
/home/dopy/kwin-effects-forceblur/src/blur.cpp:749:138: warning: unused parameter ‘mask’ [-Wunused-parameter]
749 | void BlurEffect::blur(BlurRenderData &renderInfo, const RenderTarget &renderTarget, const RenderViewport &viewport, EffectWindow *w, int mask, const QRegion &region, WindowPaintData &data)
| ~~~~^~~~
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[taj-ny]

And did you run sudo make install?

[Lostinaa]

i did now inside the build directory and it worked.. i figured last time i didnt do that and it was working and i thought it'd do the same now

[Lostinaa]

thanks for ur help tho i appreciate it