Bug 504935

Summary:	Dark background on app text
Product:	[Plasma] Breeze	Reporter:	rasmus <rasmus.larvia>
Component:	Icons	Assignee:	visual-design
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	kainz.a, m, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description rasmus 2025-05-28 19:44:01 UTC

I was playing CS2 (It was bugging the other open apps a bit) and then when I exited, I saw that my apps on my desktop had a dark background to their text. I have never seen any report of this and I've tried with ChatGPT and Gemini and they can't help me. Deleting the desktop files and adding new ones doesn't fix it, making my own .desktop files doesn't fix it, I've reinstalled KDE Plasma, I've cleared ~/.cache/

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2025-05-28 20:20:45 UTC

This is you, right? https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1kxo2am/why_is_there_a_dark_background_on_the_app_text/

The game suspended compositing while playing and forgot to re-activate it on quit, oops. You need to manually re-enable compositing with Alt+Shift+F12

Side note 1: the Wayland session can't suffer from this issue; I'd recommend using it instead of X11

Side note2:
>  I've tried with ChatGPT and Gemini and they can't help me
That's typical; these are useless for troubleshooting. I would recommend not wasting your time with them.