Bug 417422

Summary: Impossible to disable composting on Wayland by pressing alt+shift+f12
Product: [Plasma] kwin Reporter: Patrick Silva <bugseforuns>
Component: wayland-genericAssignee: KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal CC: lucia.mrenica
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.18.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Patrick Silva 2020-02-11 13:18:19 UTC
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. start Wayland session
2. try to disable compositing by pressing alt+shift+f12 (or another shortcut set in system settings > global shortcuts > kwin
3. 

OBSERVED RESULT
nothing happens, compositing is still enabled

EXPECTED RESULT
compositing should be disabled when we press the proper shortcut

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.67.0
Qt Version: 5.14.1
Comment 1 Lucia Mrenica 2020-02-11 14:59:30 UTC
It isn't really possible disable compositing on Wayland, is it?
Comment 2 Vlad Zahorodnii 2020-02-11 16:44:18 UTC
No, you cannot disable compositing on Wayland.
Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2020-02-11 18:21:51 UTC
Any specific reason you wanted to disable compositing?