Latest kwin5 master (but I've been seeing this for months), whenever I press alt+tab and holt alt so that I can see the tabbox appear, kwin just goes berserk on the CPU and screen stays frozen forever. I have to kill -9 it, no other way to stop it.

If I try gdb it, the backtrace is ever changing, usually about 150 frames deep in QML. Sometimes Plasma::FrameSvgItem appears there, sometimes Plasma::Dialog. Looks like some infinite loop or something.

If I press and release alt+tab quickly, window switches properly (before the tabbox appears).

I use the default plasm5 tabbox, newest nvidia binary. And it used to happen like 1 out of 10 alt+tabs, now it happens every single time and it's super annoying as it means always switching to tty1 after each time I press alt+tab and forget (and for some reason my tty1 randomly overlays the whole screen with red color so I need to switch back and forth).

Sometimes when I run kwin from tty1, I can see

 KWin::AbstractThumbnailItem::findParentEffectWindow: No QQuickWindow assigned yet

one for each opened window I have.

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Version
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KWin version: 5.2.90
Qt Version: 5.4.0

Operation Mode: X11 only

Decoration
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Plugin: org.kde.breeze
Theme: 
Blur: 0
onAllDesktopsAvailable: false
alphaChannelSupported: true
closeOnDoubleClickOnMenu: false
decorationButtonsLeft: 0, 9
decorationButtonsRight: 6, 3, 4, 5
borderSize: 3
gridUnit: 8
font: Oxygen-Sans,9,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
smallSpacing: 2
largeSpacing: 8

Options
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focusPolicy: 0
nextFocusPrefersMouse: false
clickRaise: true
autoRaise: false
autoRaiseInterval: 0
delayFocusInterval: 0
shadeHover: false
shadeHoverInterval: 250
separateScreenFocus: false
placement: 4
focusPolicyIsReasonable: true
borderSnapZone: 10
windowSnapZone: 10
centerSnapZone: 0
snapOnlyWhenOverlapping: false
showDesktopIsMinimizeAll: false
rollOverDesktops: true
focusStealingPreventionLevel: 1
legacyFullscreenSupport: false
operationTitlebarDblClick: 5000
operationMaxButtonLeftClick: 5000
operationMaxButtonMiddleClick: 5015
operationMaxButtonRightClick: 5014
commandActiveTitlebar1: 0
commandActiveTitlebar2: 30
commandActiveTitlebar3: 2
commandInactiveTitlebar1: 4
commandInactiveTitlebar2: 30
commandInactiveTitlebar3: 2
commandWindow1: 7
commandWindow2: 8
commandWindow3: 8
commandWindowWheel: 31
commandAll1: 10
commandAll2: 3
commandAll3: 14
keyCmdAllModKey: 16777251
showGeometryTip: false
condensedTitle: false
electricBorderMaximize: true
electricBorderTiling: true
electricBorderCornerRatio: 0.25
borderlessMaximizedWindows: false
killPingTimeout: 5000
hideUtilityWindowsForInactive: true
inactiveTabsSkipTaskbar: false
autogroupSimilarWindows: false
autogroupInForeground: true
compositingMode: 1
useCompositing: true
compositingInitialized: true
hiddenPreviews: 1
unredirectFullscreen: false
glSmoothScale: 2
colorCorrected: false
xrenderSmoothScale: false
maxFpsInterval: 16666666
refreshRate: 0
vBlankTime: 6000000
glStrictBinding: false
glStrictBindingFollowsDriver: true
glCoreProfile: false
glPreferBufferSwap: 99
glPlatformInterface: 1

Screen Edges
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desktopSwitching: false
desktopSwitchingMovingClients: false
cursorPushBackDistance: 1x1
timeThreshold: 150
reActivateThreshold: 350
actionTopLeft: 0
actionTop: 0
actionTopRight: 0
actionRight: 0
actionBottomRight: 0
actionBottom: 0
actionBottomLeft: 0
actionLeft: 0

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Active screen follows mouse:  no
Number of Screens: 1
Screen 0 Geometry: 0,0,1920x1200

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Compositing is active
Compositing Type: OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GTX 660 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 346.22
OpenGL platform interface: GLX
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.50 NVIDIA
Driver: NVIDIA
Driver version: 346.22
GPU class: Unknown
OpenGL version: 4.5
GLSL version: 4.50
X server version: 1.15.1
Linux kernel version: 3.13
Direct rendering: Requires strict binding: no
GLSL shaders:  yes
Texture NPOT support:  yes
Virtual Machine:  no
OpenGL 2 Shaders are used
Painting blocks for vertical retrace:  no

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zoom
slidingpopups
kwin4_effect_login
slide
screenshot
minimizeanimation
kwin4_effect_translucency
desktopgrid
kwin4_effect_maximize
kwin4_effect_fade
presentwindows
kwin4_effect_dialogparent
highlightwindow
blur
contrast
logout
dashboard
startupfeedback
screenedge
kscreen

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blur
contrast

Effect Settings:
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zoom:
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mousePointer: 0
mouseTracking: 0
enableFocusTracking: false
followFocus: true
focusDelay: 350
moveFactor: 20
targetZoom: 1

slidingpopups:
fadeInTime: 150
fadeOutTime: 250

kwin4_effect_login:

slide:

screenshot:

minimizeanimation:

kwin4_effect_translucency:

desktopgrid:
zoomDuration: 300
border: 10
desktopNameAlignment: 0
layoutMode: 0
customLayoutRows: 2
usePresentWindows: true

kwin4_effect_maximize:

kwin4_effect_fade:

presentwindows:
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showCaptions: true
showIcons: true
doNotCloseWindows: false
ignoreMinimized: false
accuracy: 20
fillGaps: true
fadeDuration: 150
showPanel: false
leftButtonWindow: 1
rightButtonWindow: 2
middleButtonWindow: 0
leftButtonDesktop: 2
middleButtonDesktop: 0
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kwin4_effect_dialogparent:

highlightwindow:

blur:
blurRadius: 12
cacheTexture: true

contrast:

logout:
useBlur: true

dashboard:
brightness: 0.5
saturation: 0.5
blur: false

startupfeedback:
type: 1

screenedge:

kscreen: