Cinema Mode

The Story

I’ve always loved movies really loved them, the kind where you dim the lights and give the screen your full attention. But at my desk, with two or three monitors glowing on either side, a movie never quite felt like a movie. There was always some other window spilling light into the room, pulling my eyes away from the story.

Cinema Mode is the fix I built for that. One click before the movie starts, and every monitor except the one you’re watching on actually turns off no dimming tricks, no black overlay windows, the displays themselves go dark. Click again when the credits roll, and everything comes back exactly where you left it.

Made with love, for cinema lovers everywhere.

Screenshots

Standing by, one click away from cinema mode

Now showing, every other monitor blanked

Features

One click to blank every monitor except the one you choose
Instantly restores every display to its exact previous position and resolution
Remembers your favorite "main" monitor between launches
A cinema-themed interface that feels like part of the show
Global keyboard shortcut (Meta+Shift+C by default, remappable in System Settings → Shortcuts → Cinema Mode) to toggle without opening the window
System tray icon — left-click toggles cinema mode directly; right-click gives you "Show Window" and "Quit"

Closing the window doesn’t quit the app—it keeps running in the tray.

Requirements

Desktop Environment: KDE Plasma (Wayland or X11)
Toolkit & Frameworks: Qt6 Core

Gui

Widgets

Qml

Quick

QuickControls2

Kirigami

KGlobalAccel

KStatusNotifierItem

Getting It

View Latest Release (v1.2.0)

Source release only—no prebuilt binaries yet. Build with CMake—see the README for instructions.

Not yet available: AUR · Flathub · KDE Store