Bug 452182 - Plasma Desktop elements not displaying correctly after installing proprietary Nvidia driver
Summary: Plasma Desktop elements not displaying correctly after installing proprietary...
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 5.24.4
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR major
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2022-04-02 15:34 UTC by Krill Amorim
Modified: 2024-03-26 02:48 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Krill Amorim 2022-04-02 15:34:06 UTC 
Created attachment 147895 [details]
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SUMMARY
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Plasma Desktop elements not displaying correctly after installing proprietary Nvidia driver
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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Install Nvidia Propietary driver version 5xx on your system from additional drivers in Kubuntu or Mint
2. Restart the system


OBSERVED RESULT
KDE Plasma elemts apear to be bigger than other elements like website texts and video, see Atachaments





SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma:  5.24.4

KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.92.0
Qt Version:  5.15.3

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
tested in Ubuntu 20.04 Mint 20.x OpenSUSE 

In the past I made the following modification to the file:

 /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-nvidia.conf adicione no final:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Videocard0"
    Driver      "nvidia"
        Option      "UseEdidDpi" "False"
        Option      "DPI" "96 x 96"
EndSection
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-04-04 21:53:14 UTC 
> In the past I made the following modification to the file:
Thanks for letting us know that important piece of information. You should remove it, as it should not be necessary. :)