Bug 480691 - Lock screen background image takes seconds to load; clock shows up first
Summary: Lock screen background image takes seconds to load; clock shows up first
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Theme - Breeze (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 5.92.0
Platform: Fedora RPMs Linux
: NOR minor
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
URL:
Keywords: qt6
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2024-02-01 17:09 UTC by Henning
Modified: 2025-04-24 08:19 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Attachments
Video of lock screen transition (1.63 MB, video/mp4)
2025-04-09 02:25 UTC, Doug
Details

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Description Henning 2024-02-01 17:09:30 UTC
When the session locks after the default 5min or so, first the clock appears in front of a black background, then a few seconds later the Fedora background appears.

Fedora Kinoite 40 Prerelease
Comment 1 Doug 2024-02-02 05:30:40 UTC
I'm seeing a black screen for about a second, maybe less, then the clock flashes on screen followed by the wallpaper a half second later.

Operating System: KDE neon Testing Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.249.0
Qt Version: 6.6.1
Kernel Version: 6.5.0-15-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Pro WX 3200 Series
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2024-02-06 22:44:53 UTC
I see what Doug sees. And that's the expected UX: a fade to black, and then both the clock and wallpaper fade in.

Henning, if I recall correctly, aren't you having major performance issues all over the place? Can you verify that your system isn't under heavy load when this happens? If it is, I think you have to expect that things are going to slow down. :)
Comment 3 Henning 2024-02-06 23:14:27 UTC
No the system was very normal. I was using the official Fedora Kinoite beta release, without automatic updates afaik and I didnt enable thise. rpm-ostree always eats up way too many resources but the system was at idle.

It wasnt that it was black and both faded in, but the clock first on a black background, and the image was delayed for at least a second or 2
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2025-04-05 21:13:55 UTC
Sorry we were not able to get to this yet. Can I ask you to please check to see if it's still an issue with Plasma 6.3? Thanks!
Comment 5 Doug 2025-04-09 02:25:23 UTC
Created attachment 180105 [details]
Video of lock screen transition

Here is my lockscreen transition.  

Operating System: Manjaro Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.12.0
Qt Version: 6.9.0
Kernel Version: 6.14.1-1-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × Intel® Core™ i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz
Memory: 15.4 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Pro WX 3200 Series
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: Precision 7540
Comment 6 Nate Graham 2025-04-09 16:40:33 UTC
That's different from what Henning is seeing; he said the background appeared later. In your screen recording, the background appears immediately but becomes blurred within moments. This is the expected appearance.
Comment 7 Bug Janitor Service 2025-04-24 03:47:28 UTC
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Comment 8 Andres Betts 2025-04-24 08:01:56 UTC
I checked again on this and it doesn't seem this is a problem anymore. We can close.
Comment 9 Nate Graham 2025-04-24 08:19:49 UTC
Great!