STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. enable Magnifier effect in Desktop Effects KCM 2. press meta+(+) 3. OBSERVED RESULT black square near the mouse pointer EXPECTED RESULT Magnifier effect works SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.90.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.246.0 Qt Version: 6.6.1 Graphics Platform: Wayland
Works for me with an Intel iGPU (10th gen). This seems like it could be a GPU driver issue. What GPU are you using? Are you in a VM?
My Plasma is installed on a physical machine with intel iGPU. Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-4670K CPU @ 3.40GHz Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 4600
Found the culprit: icc color profile. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. apply an icc color profile in Display Configuration KCM 2. enable Magnifier effect in Desktop Effects KCM 3. press meta+(+)
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/4744
Git commit ab48621758364b6ed245400821ef4368d3f78433 by Xaver Hugl. Committed on 05/12/2023 at 18:56. Pushed by zamundaaa into branch 'master'. plugins/magnifier: use floating point offscreen texture With color management, everything would get clamped to 1 nit otherwise. M +2 -2 src/plugins/magnifier/magnifier.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/commit/ab48621758364b6ed245400821ef4368d3f78433