On Monday 24 February 2020, Per Jessen wrote:
Michael Hamilton wrote:
I think I managed to reproduce the spin a couple of times by setting my Screen Locking settings for activation down to 1 minute so that it would happen more often.
But I'm having trouble getting it to consistently occur. When it occurred in the same session I also saw popups concerning a kwin reset. So perhaps it is linked to compositor or window management issues.
I see that too - on the first boot, kwin crashes which automagically disables openGL in the Compositor. If I re-enable it, I get another kwin crash.
Have you tried getting the locker to do less by setting a plain colour and or turning off the clock? When I set a plain colour I thought I'd fixed it, but it's more likely due to me logging out and logging in which would have reset kwin and the compositor.
Yes, I have it set to a solid colour. However, I have just now turned off the clock - and no loop!!! I'd like to understand what's going on, but this actually solves my immediate problem. Thanks for the suggestion!
If I had to guess I'd say it's trying to continue to do clock (and other) updates when for the underlying libraries are errorring. Maybe this only happens in some exception case, like after kwin has shut down the compositor (and maybe more often for some implementations such as MESA). The developer may not have tested this case and code just keeps trying. It would be worth opening a new bug. I'm glad grasping at straws paid off for once. Michael -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org