SUMMARY According to 'Show fps' effect enabled in 'Desktop Effects' KCM, when my desktop is focused, frame rate is 58. However, when System Settings is maximized and focused, frame rate is 48, and when Konsole is maximized and focused, frame rate is 28. Furthermore, mouse pointer movement feels laggy. Tried all 'Latency' settings available in Compositor KCM, but nothing changes. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. use Wayland session 2. enable 'Show fps' effect in Desktop Effects KCM 3. observe the frame rate while your desktop is focused, maximized Konsole is focused, maximized System Settings is focused OBSERVED RESULT frame rate is lower than normal, laggy mouse pointer movement EXPECTED RESULT in my case, constant 60 fps (refresh rate is 60 Hz in Display Configuration KCM) SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.90 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.90.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.16.0-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 2 × Intel® Celeron® CPU G1820 @ 2.70GHz Memory: 7,6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa DRI Intel® HD Graphics
journalctl log says: kwin_wayland[6083]: kwin_libinput: Libinput: event4 - Logitech USB Keyboard: client bug: event processing lagging behind by 22ms, your system is too slow
Input handing is known to be non-ideal, yeah. I think it's being worked on.
laggy input: was fixed lower frame rate: the show fps measures the compositing frame rate, it's not the same as the output refresh rate, if there's nothing to paint, the compositing frame rate will be lower