On the 5.21.80 git master on KDE Neon, shaded windows do not have shadows. This occurs not only for the Breeze window decoration, but also for other Breeze-derived window decorations. This bug does not occur on Plasma 5.21.5. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: KDE neon Unstable Edition KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.80 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.83.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.4.0-71-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz Memory: 31.2 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 630
Some more information: this only happens when the Compositor has its Rendering Backend set to XRender.
(In reply to Paul McAuley from comment #0) > This bug does not occur on Plasma 5.21.5. That statement is not true. It does also occur in Plasma 5.21.5.
Xrender backend was dropped.