Bug 513372 - On wayland, firefox playback stutters when interacting with the shell
Summary: On wayland, firefox playback stutters when interacting with the shell
Status: NEEDSINFO WAITINGFORINFO
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: generic-performance (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.5.4
Platform: EndeavourOS Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2025-12-14 18:36 UTC by Répási Dávid
Modified: 2025-12-15 17:13 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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system monitor output (249.72 KB, image/png)
2025-12-15 16:42 UTC, Répási Dávid
Details
2nd round (311.84 KB, image/png)
2025-12-15 17:13 UTC, Répási Dávid
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Description Répási Dávid 2025-12-14 18:36:08 UTC
SUMMARY

not a 6.5.4 issue, it's been here since 6 rolled around

be on wayland
have a twitch or youtube video playing in firefox (librewolf), will probably work with other sites
do any of the following action: open kickoff (with meta or click), scroll through the apps (switch between them), open the system tray, alt tab
any of those actions makes the video playback stutter (audio keeps playing, doesn't affect PIP)

EXPECTED RESULT

As on the x11 session, no stutters

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux: Linux 6.17.9-arch1-1 x86_64
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.21.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
wayland: 1.24.0-1
xorg-server 21.1.21-1
Comment 1 David Edmundson 2025-12-15 13:54:52 UTC
Can you confirm if their is a spike in CPU during this time?
Comment 2 Répási Dávid 2025-12-15 16:42:29 UTC
Created attachment 187676 [details]
system monitor output

in both cases I scrolled the taskbar and opened kickoff with meta, both remained the same-ish between the two activities, with x11 spiking way more compared to wayland, but the playback didn't lag on it

the lags / stutters last half a second to a whole second

(disregard the gpu section, it's bugged on my hardware, thought it could give extra info)
Comment 3 Répási Dávid 2025-12-15 17:13:57 UTC
Created attachment 187679 [details]
2nd round

2nd round doing the same, this time the gpu graph decided to work, but only on X11, plus this time same apps open, my bad for the first one