Created attachment 105018 [details] Screenshot of the issue This has been happening for while. I can reproduce every time with my user account in a X11 session. I cannot reproduce with the same user in a Wayland session, neither with another user in a X11 session. $ qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin supportInformation Version ======= KWin version: 5.9.4 Qt Version: 5.8.0 Qt compile version: 5.8.0 XCB compile version: 1.12 Operation Mode: X11 only Build Options ============= KWIN_BUILD_DECORATIONS: yes KWIN_BUILD_TABBOX: yes KWIN_BUILD_ACTIVITIES: yes HAVE_INPUT: yes HAVE_DRM: yes HAVE_GBM: yes HAVE_X11_XCB: yes HAVE_EPOXY_GLX: yes HAVE_WAYLAND_EGL: yes X11 === Vendor: The X.Org Foundation Vendor Release: 11903000 Protocol Version/Revision: 11/0 SHAPE: yes; Version: 0x11 RANDR: yes; Version: 0x14 DAMAGE: yes; Version: 0x11 Composite: yes; Version: 0x4 RENDER: yes; Version: 0xb XFIXES: yes; Version: 0x50 SYNC: yes; Version: 0x31 GLX: yes; Version: 0x0 Decoration ========== Plugin: org.kde.breeze Theme: Blur: 0 onAllDesktopsAvailable: true alphaChannelSupported: true closeOnDoubleClickOnMenu: false decorationButtonsLeft: 0, 1, 2 decorationButtonsRight: 6, 3, 4, 5 borderSize: 3 gridUnit: 10 font: Noto Sans,10,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0 smallSpacing: 2 largeSpacing: 10 Options ======= focusPolicy: 0 nextFocusPrefersMouse: false clickRaise: true autoRaise: false autoRaiseInterval: 0 delayFocusInterval: 0 shadeHover: false shadeHoverInterval: 250 separateScreenFocus: false placement: 3 focusPolicyIsReasonable: true borderSnapZone: 10 windowSnapZone: 10 centerSnapZone: 0 snapOnlyWhenOverlapping: 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 glSmoothScale: 2 xrenderSmoothScale: false maxFpsInterval: 16666666 refreshRate: 0 vBlankTime: 6000000 glStrictBinding: false glStrictBindingFollowsDriver: true glCoreProfile: false glPreferBufferSwap: 101 glPlatformInterface: 2 windowsBlockCompositing: true Screen Edges ============ 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 Screens ======= Multi-Head: no Active screen follows mouse: no Number of Screens: 1 Screen 0: --------- Name: VGA-1 Geometry: 0,0,1920x1200 Refresh Rate: 60.0186 Compositing =========== Compositing is active Compositing Type: OpenGL OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Sandybridge Mobile OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 17.0.3 OpenGL platform interface: EGL OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30 Driver: Intel GPU class: SandyBridge OpenGL version: 3.0 GLSL version: 1.30 Mesa version: 17.0.3 X server version: 1.19.3 Linux kernel version: 4.10.9 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 Loaded Effects: --------------- zoom slidingpopups kwin4_effect_login slide screenshot kwin4_effect_windowaperture minimizeanimation kwin4_effect_translucency desktopgrid colorpicker kwin4_effect_fade kwin4_effect_morphingpopups kwin4_effect_maximize presentwindows kwin4_effect_dialogparent highlightwindow blur contrast startupfeedback screenedge kscreen Currently Active Effects: ------------------------- kwin4_effect_fade blur contrast Effect Settings: ---------------- zoom: zoomFactor: 1.2 mousePointer: 0 mouseTracking: 0 enableFocusTracking: false followFocus: true focusDelay: 350 moveFactor: 20 targetZoom: 1 slidingpopups: fadeInTime: 150 fadeOutTime: 250 kwin4_effect_login: slide: screenshot: kwin4_effect_windowaperture: minimizeanimation: kwin4_effect_translucency: desktopgrid: zoomDuration: 300 border: 10 desktopNameAlignment: 0 layoutMode: 0 customLayoutRows: 2 usePresentWindows: true colorpicker: kwin4_effect_fade: kwin4_effect_morphingpopups: kwin4_effect_maximize: presentwindows: layoutMode: 0 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 rightButtonDesktop: 0 kwin4_effect_dialogparent: highlightwindow: blur: blurRadius: 12 cacheTexture: true contrast: startupfeedback: type: 1 screenedge: kscreen:
Please switch back to glx compositing and try again.
It looks like I'm hit by https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378114, right? Do I just need to drop the GLPlatformInterface=egl line from kwinrc?
(In reply to Elvis Angelaccio from comment #2) > It looks like I'm hit by https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378114, right? yep - unfortunately many users seem to be affected by this problem :-( > Do I just need to drop the GLPlatformInterface=egl line from kwinrc? yes and then restart KWin
That worked, thanks :) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 378114 ***