SUMMARY After bringing a window forward by clicking on a task manager item and leaving the mouse pointer there, plasmashell does not show a window thumbnail tooltip, but the underlying screencast session keeps running. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open some windows. Ideally, also open qpwgraph to visualize PipeWire connections 2. Move the mouse pointer to the task manager, click on an item to open another window, and leave the pointer there OBSERVED RESULT The thumbnail window may briefly appear, but in qpwgraph, the screencast connection exists until the mouse pointer moves away. EXPECTED RESULT The screencast connection may need to be closed as soon as the window thumbnail disappears. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.106.0 Qt Version: 5.15.9 Kernel Version: 6.3.3-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland ADDITIONAL INFORMATION In my system, this running screencast connection triggers a lot of logs in the journal like these: kwin_wayland[1312]: kwin_screencast: Dropping a screencast frame because the compositor is slow Makes me think that it affects system performance to some extent, but neither kwin_wayland nor pipewire uses any noticeable CPU or GPU time (but why does it think the compositor is too slow?).
Probably does affect performance, yeah.
Can be fixed by setting fd but the idea was rejected before
Where? Maybe it's worth revisiting that.
May be already fixed in 5.27.6. Cannot reproduce now.
Can reproduce, but it's caused by the triangle filter. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 467426 ***