On Saturday 04 May 2024, Jogchum Reitsma via openSUSE Factory wrote:
Hi Michael,
That did the trick, many thanks!
I have not seen the crash you describe in the links; The script I think is just a warning, but in my case the behavior of the task bar is warning enough, I think.
Thanks again,
regards, Jogchum
It's hard to say for sure from reading the symptoms, but it reads a bit like a problem I encountered.
When plasma errors it sometimes silently switches to a software renderer. If this has happend, check ~/.config/kdeglobals and remove:
[QtQuickRendererSettings] SceneGraphBackend=software
I've posted concerning this on KDE Discuss: https://discuss.kde.org/t/on-error-kde6-x11-switched-to-the-software-r enderer-how-to-reverse/13241?u=digitaltrails https://discuss.kde.org/t/wayland-kwin-crashes-when-i-alt-tab/12730/10 ?u=digitaltrails
I run the script quoted in the second link that checks for this on each login.
Michael
Its an obscure trap to fall into. One of the contributors to kde.discuss has raised a bug pointing this out: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486078 That might generate some effort to make the switch more obvious. Until this is addressed, I think I will continue to run the script at login in case the software renderer is improved to the point where the differences become more subtle. Michael