Bug 493138

Summary: Make fade effects respect windows in focus
Product: [Plasma] kwin Reporter: Fernando M. Muniz <fernandommuniz>
Component: effects-variousAssignee: KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: nate, qydwhotmail, xaver.hugl
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.1.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: 1-Fade ignores window in focus | 2-Except when both are in focus.

Description Fernando M. Muniz 2024-09-15 07:06:19 UTC
Created attachment 173677 [details]
1-Fade ignores window in focus | 2-Except when both are in focus.

As the attachment shows, when only one window is in focus (tomato), and you hover the mouse over an window not in focus (potato), for some odd reason the fade effect roughly flashes your desktop, then the window starts fading in.
In the later part, when both windows are in focus, the fade effect works smoothly between them.

Not only its visually inconsistent, it could cause a headache if you have photosensitivity.
I believe the issue is that the fade effect ignores window in focus when another is not in focus, thus flashing the desktop as failsafe.

(This is different from #479086 , where I've asked for the deactivation of the effect)
Comment 1 Zamundaaa 2024-09-16 19:55:14 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 481322 ***