SUMMARY The logout greeter backgound is solid black as opposed to having a blurred background. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Leave session OBSERVED RESULT Logout greeter background is solid black EXPECTED RESULT Logout greeter is gorgeously blurred SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: git master as of 2021-11-01 on X11 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Seems unrelated to Bug 444898 as even after fixing the fade animation the background is still black. However, you can see during the animation that it is blurred but seems not visible because of the opaque background it ends up with
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/1218
Git commit a7fa01015c99b2fa9e7e15280e7d289766b7932f by David Edmundson. Committed on 25/11/2021 at 11:22. Pushed by davidedmundson into branch 'master'. [logout-greeter] Set window class name This matches what kwin's effects have always been searching for. It only used to appear to work as "ksmserver ksmserver" was checked in previous versions. Related: bug 444898 M +2 -2 logout-greeter/shutdowndlg.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/commit/a7fa01015c99b2fa9e7e15280e7d289766b7932f
Git commit 22bd1fb8cbb23e7aeb0237f1389ef35b0553a040 by Nate Graham, on behalf of David Edmundson. Committed on 27/11/2021 at 05:27. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'Plasma/5.23'. [logout-greeter] Set window class name This matches what kwin's effects have always been searching for. It only used to appear to work as "ksmserver ksmserver" was checked in previous versions. Related: bug 444898 (cherry picked from commit a7fa01015c99b2fa9e7e15280e7d289766b7932f) M +2 -2 logout-greeter/shutdowndlg.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/commit/22bd1fb8cbb23e7aeb0237f1389ef35b0553a040