Bug 409004

Summary:	Notifications spawn in centre of current screen and jump to the system tray area, leaving a box missing/corrupted
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	clivejo <clivejo>
Component:	Notifications	Assignee:	Kai Uwe Broulik <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	nate, plasma-bugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.16.1
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Corruption in YouTube playback due to new popup message being spawned Notify popup craving out a chunk of YouTube video and displaying for a split second about system tray

Description clivejo 2019-06-21 17:06:39 UTC

When I get a notification the wee box spawns in the centre of my active screen (ie if I'm watching YouTube on that screen) it then moves down to the system tray area and I can see the notification and act on it as normal.  However, for a couple of seconds there is a blank/corrupted box on the current screen which looks weird for a few seconds(especially in the middle of video playback).  If I get a lot of notifications this becomes very annoying and can not watch a video in peace (I get a lot via KDE Connect).   


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Get a notification
2. See corruption in the centre of the screen I am currently working on

OBSERVED RESULT
Corruption at the centre of active screen

EXPECTED RESULT
Notification 

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
KDE Plasma Version: 5.16.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.59.0
Qt Version: 5.12.3

Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2019-06-22 16:41:03 UTC

Are you on Wayland? Are tese KDE Connect notifications?

Comment 2 clivejo 2019-06-23 14:33:02 UTC

No, X11.  NVidia graphics.

They seem to be for all notifications, but the majority on my system are from KDE Connect

Comment 3 Kai Uwe Broulik 2019-06-23 14:36:51 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 407757 ***

Comment 4 clivejo 2019-06-23 15:11:37 UTC

I don't think this is linked to KDE Connect, as I have tested it using 

notify-send "Hello there testing" from terminal and it does the same thing.

I am however using latte-dock and will run tests with it disabled.

Comment 5 clivejo 2019-06-23 15:42:05 UTC

I have taken both kdeconnect and latte-dock off the system and it is still doing it.

One curious thing is that I have been trying to capture it using simplescreenrecorder and using notify-send to generate the messages.  While I can see the issue on the monitor, simplescreenrecorder doesn't seem to capture it, even frame by frame.

Comment 6 clivejo 2019-06-23 15:51:33 UTC

Created attachment 121099 [details]
Corruption in YouTube playback due to new popup message being spawned

Comment 7 clivejo 2019-06-23 15:53:18 UTC

Created attachment 121100 [details]
Notify popup craving out a chunk of YouTube video and displaying for a split second about system tray

Comment 8 clivejo 2019-06-23 16:22:13 UTC

Both kdeconnect and latte-dock removed from system and rebooted, problem still exists.

Comment 9 Kai Uwe Broulik 2019-06-23 16:24:37 UTC

It seems you don't have compositing enabled?

Comment 10 clivejo 2019-06-23 20:27:34 UTC

Oh thanks, it appears it crashed and kwin disabled it and didn't tell me!

Comment 11 clivejo 2019-06-26 13:38:46 UTC

Still doing it, I reinstalled KDE Connect (git master build) but not latte-dock and got a few emails coming in (via kmail) which are doing the same thing.