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Distorted panel on KDE desktop(xorg) #1783

Open drwatson221b opened 4 years ago

drwatson221b commented 4 years ago

Screenshot_20200225_004313 So I switched to KDE from GNOME recently and found this bug. Panels are distorted and also some of the labels that appear when we hover the cursor over buttons and other items (the latter was there since installation of CL though). That distortion on the main panel on top goes away when I resize it to a shorter/longer bar. The max resolution of my laptop's screen is 1366x768. Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance.

anselmolsm commented 4 years ago

Two questions: Is that a Xorg or Wayland session? Which graphics driver? Thanks.

drwatson221b commented 4 years ago

Is that a Xorg or Wayland session

Xorg x11.

Which graphics driver?

this is what $ lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display' returned for me:

00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Trinity [Radeon HD 7500G]
        DeviceName: AMD Radeon HD 7500G
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 193b
        Kernel driver in use: radeon
drwatson221b commented 4 years ago

Hmm I got curious and opened tried a wayland session for the first time. Turns out the glitch doesn't happen there. There are a few stutters here and there on wayland though. Also I had a custom splash screen on (downloaded via Plasma addons) that used to run smoothly on xorg but lags a lot on wayland :disappointed: . I gotta live with it till it's sorted ig... I would like to know how to install or change graphics drivers though. Any help would be greatly appreciated :+1: .

jjw commented 4 years ago

I can confirm a variant on this bug on Gnome desktop. The panel works fine but almost every hover AND drop-down menu is distorted. Unfortunately, hovers and drop-downs are both layered on top of the current window (and so invisible to screenshot-current-window) and disappear on click (so cannot be captured by screenshot-select-area-to-grab). So I've uploaded some photos here, apologies for the poor quality.

Update: this may be upstream since it's reported in fedora and Red Hat and eventually Xorg but they claim it was fixed 9 months ago...

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV730 PRO [Radeon HD 4650] Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Device 2454 Kernel driver in use: radeon Kernel modules: radeon

$ echo $DESKTOP_SESSION gnome

$ loginctl show-session 1 -p Type Type=x11

PS: Right-click and application (File...) Menus are not affected.