SUMMARY When opened for the the first time, changing any setting on the kwin systemsettings kcm page seems to always add [KDE] AnimationDurationFactor=0.5 to kwinrc when changing any setting. This e.g. causes the animation speed slider to stop working. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Check your kwinrc if there is the aforementioned entry and if it is, delete it and restart kwin. 2. Go to kwin kcm and change any setting. OBSERVED RESULT [KDE] AnimationDurationFactor=0.5 is added to kwinrc. EXPECTED RESULT This shouldn't happen to keep ability to change animation speed in systemsettings GUI. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Arch 5.10 KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.90 beta 1 Arch kde-unstable repo
Ooh that's bad. That's probably what's behind people having this in their kwinrc files and animations not going at the right speed. We've gotten a number of bug reports about this, so thanks for finding the root cause. That said, which KCM makes this happen? There are multiple KWin-related KCMs. Can you narrow it down?
Ah yes: What I wanted to express was actually changing settings in systemsetting's kwin compositing kcm, e.g. changing latency policy. I've also just tried with changes to virtual desktop config, which also trigger a compositing re-initialization, but they didn't add that faulty entry.
I've been wondering how this kept happening. This makes sense. kwincompositing contains the animation slider but hidden, so that we keep the option available for people who use kwin on $randomDesktop without having duplicates in kwin. *IF* the value set in workspace settings is non default, we implicitly load that value when loading the settings But if that differs from our local config we end up saving it there.
I can't reproduce anymore with 5.21 stable.
*** Bug 448763 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Whatever I do I can't reproduce it on 5.23.5, X session, systemd startup. I had that "AnimationDurationFactor=0.5" initially, but it never appeared again after I removed it and started to change kwin settings.
Given ~/.config/kwinrc file, neither can I reproduce it. I didn't have `AnimationDurationFactor` entry there and it doesn't appear when I change `systemsettings → Window Management → Window behavior → Window activation policy`. Either it was fixed, or perhaps there was some specific setting, that upon change caused the offending line to be written in. KDE Plasma version: 5.23.5
It seems like to reproduce this bug, the animation speed in the System Settings must first be set to a none-default value, after which changing anything in the Kwin kcm will cause the entry be added in kwinrc.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 431259 ***