Version: (using Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources I have two activities defined. When I enter dashboard mode in first activity the result is as expected. The background is shown and the plasmoids are "floating" on top of everything else. When I change the activity via ctrl+shift+n and enter dashboard mode only the widgets are shown and there is a white background. No more windows, no more floating. This also happens when I change the activity via the zoom interface. I will attach two screenshots to illustrate this issue.
Created attachment 25495 [details] Correct dashboard Dashboard mode entered from first activity
Created attachment 25496 [details] Wrong displayed dashboard Wrong displayed dashboard entered from second activity
i think this is a composite problem. i've seen this issue occassionally with even just one activity. can you turn desktop effects off and see if it persists? thanks =)
With desktop effects disabled the background is shown on both activities. Would it help to post the plasma-appletsrc?
thanks, but no, that's not necessary. i used to see this issue as well, but it's gone away for me. it's related to kwin compositing, however. it needs to be investigated a bit more before i'd feel ok with moving it over to the kwin component, which is where it actually belongs.
Created attachment 25595 [details] partly white dashboard on single-screen mode I do only have a simple activity. For me, a big part of the dashboard is white, but not everything. The not-white part is actually translucent like it's supposed to be. This effect does not seem to depend on a particular KWin plugin: I deactivated all of them and the white background was still there. Only disabling compositing completely helped to remove the white background.
> Only disabling compositing completely helped to remove the white background so it's an argb visuals bug in the video driver. as such it's an upstream bug which i can do nothing about. as plasma is the first production app outside of WMs to really use argb visuals much, we're uncovering a lot of brokenness in video drivers =(
SVN commit 834730 by mart: paint on rect, not the containment geometry that corresponds to the rect only for tha first one. will backport to 4.1 CCBUG: 164582 (it was actually valid) CCMAIL: panel-devel@kde.org M +1 -1 dashboardview.cpp WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=834730