STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Execute startplasma-wayland from a TTY (without another instance of Plasma running, per https://discuss.kde.org/t/cant-run-kde-in-two-ttys-simultaneously/2105?u=rokejulianlockhart) OBSERVED RESULT Everything is ridiculously slow, and window shadows don't show. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230610 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.108.0 Qt Version: 5.15.9 Kernel Version: 6.3.6-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor Memory: 31.2 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: llvmpipe ADDITIONAL INFORMATION https://forums.opensuse.org/t/since-last-kde-unstable-update-startplasma-wayland-unusably-slow-startx-is-not/166900 PS /home/rokejulianlockhart> zypper info kwin5 Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Information for package kwin5: ------------------------------ Repository : KDE:Unstable:Frameworks Name : kwin5 Version : 5.27.5git.20230612T035903~e14299de-ku.104.2 Arch : x86_64 Vendor : obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE:Unstable Installed Size : 17.2 MiB Installed : Yes Status : out-of-date (version 5.27.5git.20230612T035903~e14299de-ku.104.1 installed) Source package : kwin5-5.27.5git.20230612T035903~e14299de-ku.104.2.src Upstream URL : http://www.kde.org Summary : KDE Window Manager Description : KWin is the window manager of the K desktop environment. PS /home/rokejulianlockhart>
> Graphics Processor: llvmpipe If you're seeing this on bare metal, it means your system is misconfigured and calling back to software rendering. Are you running the system in a VM, or on bare metal?
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > > Graphics Processor: llvmpipe > If you're seeing this on bare metal, it means your system is misconfigured > and calling back to software rendering. Are you running the system in a VM, > or on bare metal? Bare metal.
If your system is using llvmpipe then it being slow is not too surprising. It using llvmpipe in the first place is a configuration issue with your distro though, there's nothing we can do about that