Created attachment 147091 [details] Notice how the header and icons, which should be solid, have a pattern. the blur effect also has this problem, just like everything else on the Wayland session. SUMMARY There is a dithering or background pattern across all the screen when using the Wayland session. See the attached picture and Reddit post for concrete examples. *** STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Login to a Wayland session. 2. Watch the screen, and notice a pattern that does not appear using the X11 session. OBSERVED RESULT A dithering/background pattern appears all over the screen, on the wallpaper, the windows (on both Qt and GTK), applets, etc. It's especially (but not exclusively) noticeable on backgrounds that should be a single solid color. EXPECTED RESULT No distortion caused by the aforementioned dithering pattern. Colors should be as smooth as in the X11 session. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux: 5.16.10-1-default (64-bit) KDE Plasma: 5.24.1 KDE Frameworks: 5.90.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 OpenSUSE Tumbleweed 20220222 RELEVANT HARDWARE Graphics Processor: Mesa DRI Intel® HD Graphics 4400 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION A Reddit user (Zamundaaa) suggested sharing the output of drm_info, and checking the driver used by Xorg in my system. drm_info output on Wayland: https://pastebin.com/db6U4Nd3 As far as I can tell, my system uses modesetting driver on Xorg. Relevant Reddit post with more examples: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/srlycr/theres_some_weird_dithering_effect_going_on_in/ Changing the RGB Range setting to either Full, Limited, or Auto, does not fix the problem. Neither does adding "KWIN_DRM_PREFER_COLOR_DEPTH=24" into the /etc/environment file and rebooting. While I'm using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, this problem persisted after changing the default repos to the master-git KDE repos (OpenSUSE Krypton). I'm no longer using Krypton, so I'm filling this bug report with my current setup. The creator of the Reddit thread uses Arch Linux, but has the same graphics processor, and also suffers from this problem.
The issue is this: "Format: RGB565". Somehow KWins format selection prefers to use this low-precision format instead of the better 10 or 8 bit per color formats that are also available on your hardware.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/2068
Could you please test the MR without KWIN_DRM_PREFER_COLOR_DEPTH set and check with drm_info which format gets used with it? The bug should've only caused 8 bit color to be used, instead of 10 bit color, there could be more going on
Git commit 1d058a79d1b73091e4427e106eb4b98d13c57bb4 by Xaver Hugl. Committed on 24/02/2022 at 20:39. Pushed by zamundaaa into branch 'Plasma/5.24'. backends/drm: fix format choosing The logic was inverted and would choose the format after the first one that is suitable. On most hardware that wouldn't cause noticable issues as that will choose the ARGB variant of the normal format, but some Intel hardware doesn't support these and thus a lower bit depth format than intended gets used. M +3 -3 src/backends/drm/egl_gbm_backend.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/commit/1d058a79d1b73091e4427e106eb4b98d13c57bb4
(In reply to Zamundaaa from comment #4) > Git commit 1d058a79d1b73091e4427e106eb4b98d13c57bb4 by Xaver Hugl. > Committed on 24/02/2022 at 20:39. > Pushed by zamundaaa into branch 'Plasma/5.24'. > > backends/drm: fix format choosing > > The logic was inverted and would choose the format after the first one that > is suitable. On most hardware that wouldn't cause noticable issues as that > will choose the ARGB variant of the normal format, but some Intel hardware > doesn't support these and thus a lower bit depth format than intended gets > used. > > M +3 -3 src/backends/drm/egl_gbm_backend.cpp > > https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/commit/ > 1d058a79d1b73091e4427e106eb4b98d13c57bb4 Very interesting! It seems that the MR got approved into the Plasma 5.24 branch before I got to test it. I will test the updated KWin with Wayland as soon as I can.