Smearing on desktop when moving windows sometimes | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

silk locust Apr 29, 2026, 10:59 PM

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I get this kind of smear effect on my kde plasma wayland desktop, i know its a graphical artifact. i cannot screeshot it because it disapears when windows go over it. I have notices that it happens the most often with electron based apps, and when i maximize windows

specs:
OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Host: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI)
Kernel: 6.19.12-zen1-1-zen
Uptime: 10 hours
Packages: 1170 (pacman), 22 (flatpak)
Shell: bash 5.3.9
Resolution: 1360x768, 1920x1080
DE: Plasma 6.6.4 (Wayland)
WM: kwin_wayland_wr
Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3]
Icons: candy-icons [GTK2/3]
Terminal: konsole
Terminal Font: Adwaita Mono 10
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT (16) @ 5.489GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Lite Hash Rate
Memory: 9095MiB / 31996MiB

fickle ledge Apr 30, 2026, 4:47 AM

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silk locust I get this kind of smear effect on my kde plasma wayland desktop, i know its a g...

-# Have you tried restarting your PC?

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Also where is your Monitor plugged in and are you using HDMI or DP?

silk locust Apr 30, 2026, 4:49 AM

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Yes

fickle ledge Apr 30, 2026, 5:08 AM

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silk locust Yes

And my second question?

silk locust Apr 30, 2026, 5:13 AM

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fickle ledge Also where is your Monitor plugged in and are you using HDMI or DP?

Sorry, im using desplay port

silk locust Apr 30, 2026, 5:13 AM

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fickle ledge And my second question?

I didn't see the second one in my notifications

fickle ledge Apr 30, 2026, 5:13 AM

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And where is it plugged in?

silk locust Apr 30, 2026, 5:13 AM

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The gpu

fickle ledge Apr 30, 2026, 5:13 AM

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silk locust I didn't see the second one in my notifications

Yes because I didn't ping in that one

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Okay

silk locust Apr 30, 2026, 5:14 AM

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My monitor is 300hz 1080p

fickle ledge Apr 30, 2026, 5:14 AM

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Do you have the drivers and are they up to date?

#Smearing on desktop when moving windows sometimes