https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400987
--- Comment #52 from Brian <brianabe...@gmail.com> --- (In reply to Kyle Tirak from comment #51) > (In reply to Brian from comment #41) > > (In reply to Roman Gilg from comment #39) > > > I'm not able to reproduce it. Is there a way to reproduce it > > > consistently? I > > > tried method in comment 13, but didn't fail for me. > > > > Been doing testing and i think what might be happening is the window below > > is randomly getting input such as mouse clicks (the desktop?), leading to > > kwin mistakenly thinking you clicked something else, and therefor stopping > > you from inputing text. Meanwhile kwin renders the last thing the window was > > showing, leading to the still content seen. > > > > This surface glitching seems to happen most often with Firefox in Xwayland. > > In my experience when it happens, dialogs will open but not show, but if you > > use kwin's present window hotcorner you can see that it did infact open and > > that it's artifacted and invisble. > > > > Interestingly i just had the surface glitching happen randomly when > > downloading a file. The dialog opened, but it was artifacted and almost > > fully invisible, yet i could still click on it's titlebar. > > > > As a matter of fact, i know extremely similar behavior to this can be > > reproduced easily if you open Firefox with it's Wayland backend enabled. You > > will not only see tons of artfacting and misplaced UI elements should you > > move it or interact with it, but you will also find that some of your clicks > > are not registered and that windows below it are clipped up through it, > > giving you a mangled mess. > > This sounds similar to the issue I've seen for a long time. The easiest way > to reproduce this behavior for me is to: > > 1. Open one XWayland application (e.g. Thunderbird) and minimize it > 2. Open another XWayland application (e.g. VLC) > 3. In the second XWayland application, hammer on a menu bar option (e.g. in > VLC you could continuously click on the Help menu to activate and deactivate > the menu). You should be able to see invisible activations of the menu. > > This only happens for me when I have an XWayland window minimized. It also > seems to stop happening with "Keep Window Thumbnails" set to "Always". > > Note that if needing to turn off the "Always" setting to reproduce this, the > minimized XWayland window needs to be minimized *after* changing the setting > off of "Always". I have suspicion it's not just XWayland applications affected. But yes, the main problem is XWayland ones. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
