No more transparency since latest nVidia driver update
Hello List, Since the latest nVidia driver update (2 days ago), the desktop seems to have lost transparency support (Leap 15.2 / KDE 5 / Plasma). Kernel: 5.3.18-lp152.87-default nVidia driver: G05-470.63.01 (from nVidia repo) HW: Lenovo P53 with Optimus graphics + suse-prime-0.7.14 Anyone else noticed that? TIA Ph. A. -- *Philippe Andersson* Unix System Administrator IBA Particle Therapy | Tel: +32-10-475.983 Fax: +32-10-487.707 eMail: pan@iba-group.com <http://www.iba-worldwide.com> Disclaimer | Use of IBA e-communication<https://iba-worldwide.com/disclaimer> The contents of this e-mail message and any attachments are intended solely for the recipient (s) named above. This communication is intended to be and to remain confidential and may be protected by intellectual property rights. Any use of the information contained herein (including but not limited to, total or partial reproduction, communication or distribution of any form) by persons other than the designated recipient(s) is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Ion Beam Applications does not accept liability for any such errors. Thank you for your cooperation.
I get transparency when moving windows around. I don't get transparency when scrolling the mouse in the window title bar. Since it's inconsistent, maybe it's actually a KDE thing. I'm running an up-to-date TW. What specifically do you no longer get? On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 8:30 AM Philippe Andersson <pan@iba-group.com> wrote:
Hello List,
Since the latest nVidia driver update (2 days ago), the desktop seems to have lost transparency support (Leap 15.2 / KDE 5 / Plasma).
Kernel: 5.3.18-lp152.87-default nVidia driver: G05-470.63.01 (from nVidia repo) HW: Lenovo P53 with Optimus graphics + suse-prime-0.7.14
Anyone else noticed that?
TIA
Ph. A.
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-- Roger Oberholtzer
On 03/09/2021 08:47, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> I get transparency when moving windows around.
I don't -- not any more.
>
> I don't get transparency when scrolling the mouse in the window title bar.
Not sure what's that's supposed to do, sorry.
> Since it's inconsistent, maybe it's actually a KDE thing. I'm running
> an up-to-date TW.
>
> What specifically do you no longer get?
- Transparency when dragging windows
- transparency when dragging a bunch of selected, non-neighbouring items
(such as emails in Thunderbird)
- shading along the window borders
- logout/shutdown screen background now full black instead of SUSE green
I've also just tested switching to the Intel cards ("prime-select
intel"), but that makes no difference.
Along with the nVidia driver update, there was also an update of the
plasma integration plugins -- maybe the bug is in there rather than in
nVidia, then.
Here are the updated packages that triggered the regression (all
installed Wed 01 Sep 2021 07:27:15 CEST:
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x11-video-nvidiaG05-470.63.01-lp152.43.1.x86_64
plasma5-integration-plugin-lang-5.18.7-lp152.2.3.1.noarch
plasma5-integration-plugin-5.18.7-lp152.2.3.1.x86_64
libgraphviz6-2.40.1-lp152.7.13.1.x86_64
graphviz-plugins-core-2.40.1-lp152.7.13.1.x86_64
graphviz-gnome-2.40.1-lp152.7.13.1.x86_64
graphviz-gd-2.40.1-lp152.7.13.1.x86_64
graphviz-2.40.1-lp152.7.13.1.x86_64
nvidia-computeG05-470.63.01-lp152.43.1.x86_64
nvidia-glG05-470.63.01-lp152.43.1.x86_64
nvidia-gfxG05-kmp-default-470.63.01_k5.3.18_lp152.19-lp152.43.1.x86_64
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Ph. A.
>
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 8:30 AM Philippe Andersson <pan@iba-group.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello List,
>>
>> Since the latest nVidia driver update (2 days ago), the desktop seems to
>> have lost transparency support (Leap 15.2 / KDE 5 / Plasma).
>>
>> Kernel: 5.3.18-lp152.87-default
>> nVidia driver: G05-470.63.01 (from nVidia repo)
>> HW: Lenovo P53 with Optimus graphics + suse-prime-0.7.14
>>
>> Anyone else noticed that?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Ph. A.
>>
>> --
>>
>> *Philippe Andersson*
>> Unix System Administrator
>> IBA Particle Therapy |
>> Tel: +32-10-475.983
>> Fax: +32-10-487.707
>> eMail: pan@iba-group.com
>> <http://www.iba-worldwide.com>
>>
>>
>>
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On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 9:13 AM Philippe Andersson <pan@iba-group.com> wrote:
I don't get transparency when scrolling the mouse in the window title bar. Not sure what's that's supposed to do, sorry.
If you want to see what's under a window without moving it, scroll in the window title bar. The more you scroll the more you can see through the window without having to move it. Great when comparing things between two unrelated programs. -- Roger Oberholtzer
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When something like that happens to me it's usually because compositing has been disabled due to some past glitch. If I re-enable it via Settings -> Display and Monitor -> Compositor, then all is well. This happens infrequently but I often fail to notice immediately, I've setup a login job that checks it: ---- snip --- #!/bin/bash #set -x compositor_enabled=$(qdbus-qt5 org.kde.KWin /Compositor org.kde.kwin.Compositing.active) if [ "$compositor_enabled" != "true" ] then notify-send -a "Check Compositor" -t 0 -i dialog-error.png 'Hardware -> Display and Monitor -> Compositor is disabled!' fi ---- snip --- On Friday 03 September 2021, Philippe Andersson wrote:
Hello List,
Since the latest nVidia driver update (2 days ago), the desktop seems to have lost transparency support (Leap 15.2 / KDE 5 / Plasma).
Kernel: 5.3.18-lp152.87-default nVidia driver: G05-470.63.01 (from nVidia repo) HW: Lenovo P53 with Optimus graphics + suse-prime-0.7.14
Anyone else noticed that?
TIA
Ph. A.
--
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On 03/09/2021 09:48, Michael Hamilton wrote:
When something like that happens to me it's usually because compositing has been disabled due to some past glitch. If I re-enable it via Settings -> Display and Monitor -> Compositor, then all is well. This happens infrequently but I often fail to notice immediately, I've setup a login job that checks it:
---- snip --- #!/bin/bash #set -x
compositor_enabled=$(qdbus-qt5 org.kde.KWin /Compositor org.kde.kwin.Compositing.active)
if [ "$compositor_enabled" != "true" ] then notify-send -a "Check Compositor" -t 0 -i dialog-error.png 'Hardware -> Display and Monitor -> Compositor is disabled!' fi ---- snip --- Many thanks, Michael -- you nailed it!
A crash of 'kwin' (that occurred shortly after the latest nVidia driver update) disabled compositing -- there was a message to that effect in the "Settings" dialogue. Seeing as OpenGL was considered a stability risk, I switched to the XRender backup, and transparency and shading are back. I'll play with your script as well ;-) Thanks again! Ph. A.
On Friday 03 September 2021, Philippe Andersson wrote:
Hello List,
Since the latest nVidia driver update (2 days ago), the desktop seems to have lost transparency support (Leap 15.2 / KDE 5 / Plasma).
Kernel: 5.3.18-lp152.87-default nVidia driver: G05-470.63.01 (from nVidia repo) HW: Lenovo P53 with Optimus graphics + suse-prime-0.7.14
Anyone else noticed that?
TIA
Ph. A.
--
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On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 1:40 PM Philippe Andersson <pan@iba-group.com> wrote:
On 03/09/2021 09:48, Michael Hamilton wrote:
When something like that happens to me it's usually because compositing has been disabled due to some past glitch. If I re-enable it via Settings -> Display and Monitor -> Compositor, then all is well. This happens infrequently but I often fail to notice immediately, I've setup a login job that checks it:
---- snip --- #!/bin/bash #set -x
compositor_enabled=$(qdbus-qt5 org.kde.KWin /Compositor org.kde.kwin.Compositing.active)
if [ "$compositor_enabled" != "true" ] then notify-send -a "Check Compositor" -t 0 -i dialog-error.png 'Hardware -> Display and Monitor -> Compositor is disabled!' fi ---- snip --- Many thanks, Michael -- you nailed it!
The status on my system is true. I wonder where the transparency via the window title scroll went. Hmmm. Different topic. -- Roger Oberholtzer
On Friday 03 September 2021, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 1:40 PM Philippe Andersson <pan@iba-group.com> wrote:
On 03/09/2021 09:48, Michael Hamilton wrote:
When something like that happens to me it's usually because compositing has been disabled due to some past glitch. If I re-enable it via Settings -> Display and Monitor -> Compositor, then all is well. This happens infrequently but I often fail to notice immediately, I've setup a login job that checks it:
---- snip --- #!/bin/bash #set -x
compositor_enabled=$(qdbus-qt5 org.kde.KWin /Compositor org.kde.kwin.Compositing.active)
if [ "$compositor_enabled" != "true" ] then notify-send -a "Check Compositor" -t 0 -i dialog-error.png 'Hardware -> Display and Monitor -> Compositor is disabled!' fi ---- snip --- Many thanks, Michael -- you nailed it!
The status on my system is true. I wonder where the transparency via the window title scroll went. Hmmm. Different topic.
I'm glad the suggestion worked. In respect to transparency control via the titlebar, I got curious... On TW Settings -> Window Management -> Window Behaviour -> Titlebar Actions - Mouse Wheel has a setting called "Change Opacity". If I set it, when I use the mouse wheel while over a titlebar, then the opacity of the window changes. I'm might try it for a while, I'm not convinced I have a use for it. I also noticed a titlebar action for double-click which will shade the window, I might find that more usefull. I'm going to try the xrender option too. After years of relative stability, on rare occasions google-chrome-beta manages to hard lock my nvidia based desktop. Switching off chrome's use of the GPU seems to reduce the occurrences to zero. Perhaps taking direct access to opengl away from KDE might help. I already switched to chrome non-beta, so I guess I won't know what, if anything, has made a difference (the reason I need the GPU enabled for chrome, is youtube will otherwise reduce the resolution or anything I watch). Michael
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