SierraBreezeEnhanced

Overview

SierraBreezeEnhanced is a fork of BreezeEnhanced decoration with the following changes:

• non-gray colors do not change.
• active window: show symbol on hovering.
• inactive window: always show symbol, show ring color on hovering.
• application menu button is considered special and stays as in vanilla breeze.
• no more option for non macOS-like buttons as it doesn't apply anymore.
• added, however, an option to either choose active vs. inactive style (default), always active style (also for non-active windows), or inactive style (also for the active window).
• horizontal padding to better adjust the button position in case of use of rounded corners.

Credits:

SierraBreezeEnhanced is strongly based on BreezeEnhanced and SierraBreeze.

Installation

Compilation should not be done against versions of KWin < 5.14.

Open a terminal inside the source directory and do:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DKDE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF -DKDE_INSTALL_USE_QT_SYS_PATHS=ON
make
sudo make install

After the intallation, restart KWin by logging out and in. Then, SierraBreezeEnhanced will appear in System Settings → Application Style → Window Decorations.

Ubuntu PPA

Users of Ubuntu based distros (such as KDE Neon) can add the PPA and install the package by:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:krisives/sierrabreezeenhanced
sudo apt update
sudo apt install sierrabreezeenhanced

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