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i3 + Plasma: using the i3 window manager on the top of KDE Plasma and other dotfiles, configurations, scripts, workarounds and practises from my Debian Sid machines.
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New KDE Update Brought Ugly Margin Above PlasmaShell #34

Closed Zackhardtoname closed 3 years ago

Zackhardtoname commented 3 years ago

I am using Arch, i3, and KDE together. It has worked relatively well

Today after the latest update, there's a black bar as in the image. I don't have it in my pure kde session but someone does in this reddit post. Do you by any chance know how to get rid of this? Thank you!

image New KDE Update Brought Ugly Margin Above PlasmaShell

The cloest I have found, not quite the same, is this https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE#Disable_panel_shadow. I've tried both suggested approaches but they don't work... (manual clicking related areas and run it as a script in my Downloads folder)

avivace commented 3 years ago

Go to Display and Monitor > Compositor, and make sure the compositor is on. Mine had been turned off because OpenGL 2.0 had apparently caused KWin to crash in the past. I switched it to 3.1, hopefully won't have anymore problems. The black margins are actually built into the "breeze" themes, seemingly as a replacement for compositor edge shadowing effects if the compositor is turned off (presumably added in last update) but I agree they look terrible. If turning the compositor on is not an option for you, because of performance or stability, you could try using a different theme.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/kcdy8e/new_kde_update_brought_ugly_black_margin_above/