Steam breaks the effect until relogin

[CarlosEkisde]

When starting steam, the moment the window appears, new windows appearing after that won't get properly blurred, including new windows from processes already running, for example plasmashell.

I'm on a nvidia 3060 Ti with the proprietary driver. That may be relevant. I have not tested with AMD or Intel.

Distro: Fedora 40 KDE Wayland.

Logs since steam started:

abr 14 22:11:21 localhost plasmashell[79908]: steam.sh[79908]: Running Steam on fedora 40 64-bit
abr 14 22:11:21 localhost systemd[2400]: Started app-steam-4b82fb22041946c5b1d8943e7a205d41.scope - Steam.
abr 14 22:11:21 localhost plasmashell[79908]: steam.sh[79908]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
abr 14 22:11:21 localhost plasmashell[79984]: setup.sh[79984]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
abr 14 22:11:21 localhost plasmashell[79908]: steam.sh[79908]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
abr 14 22:11:21 localhost plasmashell[80029]: 04/14 22:11:21 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1709846872)/tid(80029)
abr 14 22:11:21 localhost xdg-desktop-portal-kde[77585]: xdp-kde-settings: Namespace  "org.gnome.desktop.interface"  is not supported
abr 14 22:11:22 localhost plasmashell[80049]: steamwebhelper.sh[80040]: === dom 14 abr 2024 22:11:22 CEST ===
abr 14 22:11:22 localhost plasmashell[80052]: steamwebhelper.sh[80040]: Starting steamwebhelper under bootstrap sniper steam runtime at /home/Carlos/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-sniper
abr 14 22:11:22 localhost plasmashell[80029]: tid(80029) burning pthread_key_t == 0 so we never use it
abr 14 22:11:22 localhost plasmashell[80029]: [2024-04-14 22:11:21] Startup - updater built Mar  6 2024 20:27:25
abr 14 22:11:22 localhost plasmashell[80029]: [2024-04-14 22:11:21] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/Carlos/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam'
abr 14 22:11:22 localhost plasmashell[80029]: minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
abr 14 22:11:22 localhost plasmashell[80029]: [2024-04-14 22:11:21] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/Carlos/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin)
abr 14 22:11:22 localhost plasmashell[80029]: [2024-04-14 22:11:21] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
abr 14 22:11:22 localhost plasmashell[80029]: [2024-04-14 22:11:21] 1. https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1000, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
abr 14 22:11:22 localhost plasmashell[80029]: [2024-04-14 22:11:21] 2. https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
abr 14 22:11:22 localhost plasmashell[80029]: [2024-04-14 22:11:21] 3. https://cdn.steamstatic.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in'
abr 14 22:11:22 localhost plasmashell[80029]: [2024-04-14 22:11:21] Verificando instalación...
abr 14 22:11:22 localhost plasmashell[80029]: [2024-04-14 22:11:21] Verification complete
abr 14 22:11:22 localhost plasmashell[80029]: UpdateUI: skip show logo
abr 14 22:11:22 localhost plasmashell[80029]: Steam logging initialized: directory: /home/Carlos/.local/share/Steam/logs
abr 14 22:11:22 localhost plasmashell[80029]: XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf02f0e90
abr 14 22:11:22 localhost plasmashell[80029]: XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf02ef5f0
abr 14 22:11:22 localhost plasmashell[80029]: CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread took 31 milliseconds to initialize
abr 14 22:11:22 localhost xdg-desktop-portal-kde[77585]: xdp-kde-settings: Namespace  "org.gnome.desktop.interface"  is not supported
abr 14 22:11:22 localhost plasmashell[80029]: Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service
abr 14 22:11:22 localhost plasmashell[80029]: Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 80284
abr 14 22:11:22 localhost steam-runtime-launcher-service[80284]: bus_name=com.steampowered.PressureVessel.LaunchAlongsideSteam
abr 14 22:11:22 localhost xdg-desktop-portal-kde[77585]: xdp-kde-settings: Namespace  "org.gnome.desktop.interface"  is not supported
abr 14 22:11:22 localhost xdg-desktop-portal-kde[77585]: xdp-kde-settings: Namespace  "org.gnome.desktop.interface"  is not supported
abr 14 22:11:22 localhost plasmashell[80291]: libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen
abr 14 22:11:22 localhost plasmashell[80291]: DRM kernel driver 'nvidia-drm' in use. NVK requires nouveau.
abr 14 22:11:23 localhost plasmashell[80029]: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/main.rc:733: error: unexpected identifier 'direction', expected character '}'
abr 14 22:11:23 localhost plasmashell[80029]: /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/hacks.rc:28: error: invalid string constant "normal_entry", expected valid string constant
abr 14 22:11:23 localhost plasmashell[80029]: /usr/share/themes/Breeze/gtk-2.0/widgets/entry:70: error: unexpected identifier 'direction', expected character '}'
abr 14 22:11:23 localhost plasmashell[80029]: /usr/share/themes/Breeze/gtk-2.0/widgets/styles:36: error: invalid string constant "combobox_entry", expected valid string constant
abr 14 22:11:23 localhost plasmashell[80376]: DRM kernel driver 'nvidia-drm' in use. NVK requires nouveau.
abr 14 22:11:24 localhost plasmashell[80398]: DRM kernel driver 'nvidia-drm' in use. NVK requires nouveau.
abr 14 22:11:24 localhost kwin_wayland[77366]: kf.windowsystem: static bool KX11Extras::mapViewport() may only be used on X11
abr 14 22:11:24 localhost plasmashell[80029]: BRefreshApplicationsInLibrary 1: 1ms
abr 14 22:11:24 localhost kwin_wayland[77366]: kwin_core: Failed to focus 0x2e00033 (error 8)
abr 14 22:11:24 localhost kwin_wayland[77366]: kf.windowsystem: static bool KX11Extras::mapViewport() may only be used on X11
abr 14 22:11:24 localhost kwin_wayland[77366]: kwin_core: Failed to focus 0x2a00005 (error 3)
abr 14 22:11:24 localhost kwin_wayland[77366]: kwin_core: Failed to focus 0x2a00005 (error 3)
abr 14 22:11:24 localhost kwin_wayland[77366]: kwin_core: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 797, resource id: 44040197, major code: 129 (SHAPE), minor code: 3 (Combine)
abr 14 22:11:24 localhost kwin_wayland[77366]: kwin_core: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 798, resource id: 44040197, major code: 129 (SHAPE), minor code: 3 (Combine)
abr 14 22:11:24 localhost kwin_wayland[77366]: kwin_core: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 813, resource id: 44040197, major code: 129 (SHAPE), minor code: 3 (Combine)
abr 14 22:11:24 localhost kwin_wayland[77366]: kwin_core: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 814, resource id: 44040197, major code: 129 (SHAPE), minor code: 3 (Combine)
abr 14 22:11:24 localhost kwin_wayland[77366]: kwin_core: Could not find window with uuid "{20bdc72c-a537-4d2d-b084-aa8fe5467535}"
abr 14 22:11:24 localhost kwin_wayland[77366]: kwin_core: Could not find window with uuid "{20bdc72c-a537-4d2d-b084-aa8fe5467535}"
abr 14 22:11:24 localhost plasmashell[80029]: BuildCompleteAppOverviewChange: 245 apps
abr 14 22:11:25 localhost kwin_wayland[77366]: kwin_core: Could not find window with uuid "{20bdc72c-a537-4d2d-b084-aa8fe5467535}"
abr 14 22:11:25 localhost plasmashell[80029]: RegisterForAppOverview 1: 12ms
abr 14 22:11:25 localhost plasmashell[80029]: RegisterForAppOverview 2: 12ms
abr 14 22:11:25 localhost kwin_wayland[77366]: kf.windowsystem: static bool KX11Extras::mapViewport() may only be used on X11
abr 14 22:11:25 localhost plasmashell[77514]: qt.gui.imageio: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
abr 14 22:11:59 localhost kwin_wayland[77366]: kf.windowsystem: static bool KX11Extras::mapViewport() may only be used on X11
abr 14 22:12:06 localhost systemd[2400]: Started app-org.kde.konsole-71dc2365919f43b68aba49ad188e928f.scope - Konsole - Terminal.

Also adding steam to the blacklist doesn't prevent this issue.

[taj-ny]

Does this also happen when using the stock blur effect?

[CarlosEkisde]

No, this only seems to happen with forceblur.

Also I tried opening steam with the -silent argument, which launches steam without opening the window, and this also triggers this issue.

[taj-ny]

I'm unable to reproduce this on an Intel GPU. Launch another Plasma session with dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland and start Steam inside it, you'll get much more detailed logs.

EDIT: Does the issue occur on X11?

[CarlosEkisde]

It happens on X11 too.

Running Plasma with that command provides no logs for me =P. Also I noticed that sometimes this issue doesn't trigger when running Plasma this way. It may be coincidence. I don´t know.

Btw, This days I've switched to an opaque kwin and widget styles that I happened to like the most. So I'm switched back to default blur for the Plasma theme. I'm sorry for not been able to properly debug this thing from now on =P

EDIT: Also tried running steam with -silent parameter which makes it start without opening the window, and this way the issue also triggers.