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I run KDE on Arch, recently Kwin broke after updating. All of the sudden the compositing-function of Kwin does not work anymore and KDE lost the ability to apply transparancy, Yakuake lost transparancy and when I open the appearance tab of the edit profile tab then I get this error message:
I searched a lot with search-engines to figure out what is going on, nothing useful shows up. How do I get the compositing (no tearing!) and transparancy back? Which are the relevant files which I should look at? The GUI doesn't offer any solution to set this as far as I can tell. I use a 5700 XT, I didn't have these issues before with the same graphics card. Oh, and this. https://i.imgur.com/O2yDq5e.png Screenshot taken without changing anything. It is not a user-error apparently. Compositing is turned on. Just to be thorough I tried to disable "allow applications to block compositing", that did not help either. There has to be a bug. When I enter this command in the terminal
Then this is the end of the output
In the screenshot you see that compositing is turned on in the GUI but somehow Kwin refuses to apply it. Here the full output.
Now I get this message in the compositing tab of system settings:
Some issue with Kwin not playing nice with the GPUOpen/mesa-drivers? PS Could this forum please accept 1080p pictures? Most people have a 1080p monitor. |
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By big exception I will reply to my own topic, not to bump it or whatever but because I have the/a solution: switching from OpenGL 2.0 to OpenGL 3.1 solved the issue. I will leave it to the KDE-developers to connect the dots (I should have given enough information and if they want more information then I can give it) but apparently updated drivers did not allow Kwin to work with OpenGL 2.0 anymore.
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FWIW: please do not report bugs in the forum, these need to be reported in https://bugs.kde.org
Running Kubuntu 22.10 with Plasma 5.26.3, Frameworks 5.100.0, Qt 5.15.6, kernel 5.19.0-23 on Ryzen 5 4600H, AMD Renoir, X11
FWIW: it's always useful to state the exact Plasma version (+ distribution) when asking questions, makes it easier to help ... |
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I'm running Manjaro KDE, and I have this issue. Sometimes I'm lucky on startup, and compositing will start, but other times, it doesn't. When I go in to the "Compositing" settings, I see the "OpenGL compositing (the default) has crashed KWin in the past. This was most likely due to a driver bug." message.
When I run
I found another post that mentions creating this file:
However, I have found that this isn't 100% reliable when my computer starts up. I can run it manually from the terminal though, and it will start the KWin Compositor. I might try a fresh install of another distro... |
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ALT + SHIFT + F12 starts the KWin Compositor again, but it's annoying doing that every time I boot and sign in.
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