Does plasma desktop support .webp images as wallpaper?

I use Endeavour OS (Arch based btw) and I've noticed that when I select to choose a new image as my wallpaper, it doesn't support the .webp format.

Does plasma desktop not support .webp images as wallpaper? Am I doing something wrong?

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woelkchen@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y (1 reply)
abobla@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y

thanks

Gemini24601@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (5 replies)

Go to cloudconvert.com and convert it to jpeg or png. Then it should work.

Successful_Try543@feddit.de · 7 pts · 2y (2 replies)

magick input.webp output.jpg

Gemini24601@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Doesn’t work for me, but this may also be an option.

PureTryOut@lemmy.kde.social · 8 pts · 2y

Just make sure imagemagick is installed. convert input.webp output.jpg will also work.

abobla@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

thanks, I used gimp to convert from .webp to .png. I guess the plasma desktop does not support .webp images as wallpapers then? It would be cool to support them in the future.

semperverus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Check again in February after plasma 6 releases.

spiffeeroo@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Check if you have qt5-imageformats package installed. It is an optional dependency for kio-extras package that is not installed by default on Arch distros.

I am pretty sure webp works with the wallpaper picker on plasma5 from my experience.

abobla@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

cool, thank you very much

Eldritch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

If it's anything like jxl there was a separate library to install for that. Might check there