Bug 202736

Summary:	Desktops effects disabled at each login
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Markus Strobl <mstrobl2>
Component:	compositing	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	jcbodez, realnc, sergio.guibert
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	KWIN log

Description Markus Strobl 2009-08-06 02:10:32 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

At each login desktop effects are disabled. When going to system settings and clicking "enable" a notification shows up stating that compositing has been disabled by an unnamed application. Clicking "enable" a second time will enable the effects and they work properly until the next login and the whole thing repeats.

Attached is the debug output of kwin. I added some new lines to break the log into 3 parts:

1: kwin --replace
2: First click on "enable effects" (which fails)
3: Second click on "enable effects" (succeeds)

Graphics are ATI R430 using the open source Radeon driver.

Comment 1 Markus Strobl 2009-08-06 02:13:37 UTC

Created attachment 35893 [details]
KWIN log

Comment 2 lucas 2009-08-06 03:14:33 UTC

Line of interest:

kwin(4085): Compositing self-check failed, disabling compositing.

Comment 3 FiNeX 2009-08-07 11:23:01 UTC

*** Bug 202897 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Nikos Chantziaras 2009-08-07 17:32:27 UTC

I confirm on Gentoo 64-bit, Radeon HD4870 with Catalyst drivers 9.7.

Comment 5 sergio.guibert 2009-08-08 15:42:33 UTC

I confirm this behavior with the same kwin log entries for kubuntu 9.04 64-bits with kde 4.3 and catalyst drivers 9.7 for Radeon HD4870.

Comment 6 jcb1985 2009-08-28 18:18:31 UTC

I confirm this bug with Kubuntu 9.04 32-bits with kde 4.3 and catalyst drivers 9.8
when going to system settings, it says that the effects are activated, but temporarily disabled. 
when clicking on resuming it says that compositing has been disabled bu an unnamed application

Comment 7 Thomas Lübking 2009-08-28 18:30:11 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 202274 ***