I disabled the offending repository and reverted all the packages to the ones provided by default and got the proper rendering back. # journalctl | grep plasma [ log entries identical to the previous configuration ] Aug 18 09:52:24 obikawa14 ksmserver[2016]: org.kde.kf5.ksmserver: Starting autostart service "/etc/xdg/autostart/org.kde.plasmashell.desktop" ("/usr/bin/plasmashell") Aug 18 09:52:25 obikawa14 plasmashell[2031]: org.kde.plasmaquick: Applet preload policy set to 1 Aug 18 09:52:25 obikawa14 plasmashell[2031]: Using Wayland-EGL The only difference from before is the lack of the last line complaining about the EGL implementation. Which suggests that the upcoming "Wayland-EGL" is broken.