How do I fix the flickering on KDE with transparent themes? (AMDGPU laptop)

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description: VGA compatible controller product: Lucienne vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0 logical name: /dev/fb0 version: c2 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: vga_controller bus_master cap_list fb configuration: depth=32 driver=amdgpu latency=0 resolution=1920,1080

I'm using archlinux with plasma 5 & wayland. From time to time it just starts flickering for some reason...

If I need to change drivers just let me know. I don't game or do anything graphical on this laptop. Only software development on vscode and chatting.

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Ad5001@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Got the same issue here on Kubuntu with when activating transparent background in Konsole with an AMD GPU (flickering of background between transparent and solid).

It only started happening when I switched to Wayland. X11 does not share the issue.

I managed to fix it in Konsole somehow by switching to another apperance theme in the profiles configuration (you might see there that, for some reason, Breeze is duplicated, which I suspect is what responsible for the flickering).

lumirell@lemmy.kde.social · 2 pts · 2y

In my case I was using X11 when I posted this. I get flickering on both X11 and wayland and that's a bit ugh sometimes 🙃🙃

merthyr1831@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

recommend posting to https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/ which is home to the issue tracker for AMD graphics on Linux.

lumirell@lemmy.kde.social · 2 pts · 2y

There's plenty in there going back to 6 months+ sadly I don't think I can bring as much details as everyone's elses posted issues. It's a waiting game from here on :(