[SOLVED] Plasma desktop effects not working

becho4 · 2020-05-01 19:43:51

I have a laptop with the following graphics card:
VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Thames [Radeon HD 7550M/7570M/7650M]

and this driver:
xf86-video-ati 1:19.1.0-1

together with mesa:
lib32-mesa 19.3.3-1
lib32-mesa-vdpau 19.3.3-1
mesa 19.3.3-1
mesa-vdpau 19.3.3-1

but the desktop effects in plasma are not working

I'm lost on how to troubleshoot this issue :-(
Could someone please give me some indication on what direction to take to investigate?

Last edited by becho4 (2020-05-03 13:12:32)

Gosi · 2020-05-01 19:56:01

mesa 19.3.3?

First update your system.

becho4 · 2020-05-02 17:08:26

Thank you for the feedback Gosi.
I upgraded the system and now I have the following versions installed:

xf86-video-ati 1:19.1.0-1
lib32-mesa 20.0.6-2
lib32-mesa-vdpau 20.0.6-2
mesa 20.0.6-2
mesa-demos 8.4.0-4
mesa-vdpau 20.0.6-2

but the desktop effects in plasma are still not working

V1del · 2020-05-02 19:17:44

What does "not working" mean? Did you enable them? Did you accidentally turn them off (Alt+Shift+F12 for the shortcut)? what's your output for

glxinfo -B #Needs mesa-demos
qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin org.kde.KWin.supportInformation #Needs qt5-tools

post these in [ code ] [ /code ] tags without the spaces

Last edited by V1del (2020-05-02 19:18:28)

becho4 · 2020-05-03 07:56:47

What does "not working" mean?

It means that I don't see any of the usual plasma effects on the screen that I see in another laptop that I have.
No border shadows. No wobbling windows. No smooth minimizing or maximizing. Absolutely nothing in terms of effects.

Did you enable them?

I really don't know where to enable them. I remember it used to be an option to enable/disable desktop effects in the KDE settings but I don't find it anymore.
I see at the end of the output below "Compositing is not active" so certainly they are not enabled.

Did you accidentally turn them off (Alt+Shift+F12 for the shortcut)?

I tried this shortcut several times but nothing happens in my PC.

[alf@palf ~]$ glxinfo -B #Needs mesa-demos
name of display: :0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
    Vendor: X.Org (0x1002)
    Device: AMD TURKS (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.6.8-arch1-1, LLVM 10.0.0) (0x6841)
    Version: 20.0.6
    Accelerated: yes
    Video memory: 1024MB
    Unified memory: no
    Preferred profile: core (0x1)
    Max core profile version: 3.3
    Max compat profile version: 3.1
    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
    Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.1
Memory info (GL_ATI_meminfo):
    VBO free memory - total: 1023 MB, largest block: 1023 MB
    VBO free aux. memory - total: 1021 MB, largest block: 1021 MB
    Texture free memory - total: 1023 MB, largest block: 1023 MB
    Texture free aux. memory - total: 1021 MB, largest block: 1021 MB
    Renderbuffer free memory - total: 1023 MB, largest block: 1023 MB
    Renderbuffer free aux. memory - total: 1021 MB, largest block: 1021 MB
Memory info (GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info):
    Dedicated video memory: 1024 MB
    Total available memory: 2045 MB
    Currently available dedicated video memory: 1023 MB
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: AMD TURKS (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.6.8-arch1-1, LLVM 10.0.0)
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 20.0.6
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 3.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

OpenGL version string: 3.1 Mesa 20.0.6
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.40
OpenGL context flags: (none)

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.1 Mesa 20.0.6
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.10

[alf@palf ~]$ qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin org.kde.KWin.supportInformation #Needs qt5-tools
Información sobre KWin:
La siguiente información se debe usar al solicitar ayuda, por ejemplo en https://forum.kde.org.
Proporciona información sobre la instancia que se ejecuta actualmente, qué opciones se están usando,
qué controlador OpenGL y qué efectos están activos.
Por favor, envíe la información proporcionada a continuación de este texto de introducción a un
servicio de bandeja de pegar como https://paste.kde.org en lugar de pegarla en hilos de ayuda.

==========================

Version
=======
KWin version: 5.18.4
Qt Version: 5.14.2
Qt compile version: 5.14.2
XCB compile version: 1.14

Operation Mode: X11 only

Build Options
=============
KWIN_BUILD_DECORATIONS: yes
KWIN_BUILD_TABBOX: yes
KWIN_BUILD_ACTIVITIES: yes
HAVE_DRM: yes
HAVE_GBM: yes
HAVE_EGL_STREAMS: yes
HAVE_X11_XCB: yes
HAVE_EPOXY_GLX: yes
HAVE_WAYLAND_EGL: yes

X11
===
Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
Vendor Release: 12008000
Protocol Version/Revision: 11/0
SHAPE: yes; Version: 0x11
RANDR: yes; Version: 0x14
DAMAGE: yes; Version: 0x11
Composite: yes; Version: 0x4
RENDER: yes; Version: 0xb
XFIXES: yes; Version: 0x50
SYNC: yes; Version: 0x31
GLX: yes; Version: 0x0

Decoration
==========
Plugin: org.kde.breeze
Theme: 
Plugin recommends border size: None
Blur: 0
onAllDesktopsAvailable: false
alphaChannelSupported: false
closeOnDoubleClickOnMenu: false
decorationButtonsLeft: 0, 2
decorationButtonsRight: 6, 3, 4, 5
borderSize: 0
gridUnit: 10
font: Noto Sans,10,-1,0,50,0,0,0,0,0,Regular
smallSpacing: 2
largeSpacing: 10

Platform
==========
Name: KWin::X11StandalonePlatform

Options
=======
focusPolicy: 0
nextFocusPrefersMouse: false
clickRaise: true
autoRaise: false
autoRaiseInterval: 0
delayFocusInterval: 0
shadeHover: false
shadeHoverInterval: 250
separateScreenFocus: false
placement: 4
focusPolicyIsReasonable: true
borderSnapZone: 10
windowSnapZone: 10
centerSnapZone: 0
snapOnlyWhenOverlapping: false
rollOverDesktops: true
focusStealingPreventionLevel: 1
operationTitlebarDblClick: 5000
operationMaxButtonLeftClick: 5000
operationMaxButtonMiddleClick: 5015
operationMaxButtonRightClick: 5014
commandActiveTitlebar1: 0
commandActiveTitlebar2: 28
commandActiveTitlebar3: 2
commandInactiveTitlebar1: 4
commandInactiveTitlebar2: 28
commandInactiveTitlebar3: 2
commandWindow1: 7
commandWindow2: 8
commandWindow3: 8
commandWindowWheel: 28
commandAll1: 10
commandAll2: 3
commandAll3: 14
keyCmdAllModKey: 16777251
showGeometryTip: true
condensedTitle: false
electricBorderMaximize: true
electricBorderTiling: true
electricBorderCornerRatio: 0.25
borderlessMaximizedWindows: false
killPingTimeout: 5000
hideUtilityWindowsForInactive: true
compositingMode: 1
useCompositing: true
hiddenPreviews: 1
glSmoothScale: 2
xrenderSmoothScale: false
maxFpsInterval: 16666666
refreshRate: 0
vBlankTime: 6000000
glStrictBinding: true
glStrictBindingFollowsDriver: true
glCoreProfile: false
glPreferBufferSwap: 97
glPlatformInterface: 1
windowsBlockCompositing: true

Screen Edges
============
desktopSwitching: false
desktopSwitchingMovingClients: false
cursorPushBackDistance: 1x1
timeThreshold: 150
reActivateThreshold: 350
actionTopLeft: 0
actionTop: 0
actionTopRight: 0
actionRight: 0
actionBottomRight: 0
actionBottom: 0
actionBottomLeft: 0
actionLeft: 0

Screens
=======
Multi-Head: no
Active screen follows mouse:  no
Number of Screens: 1

Screen 0:
---------
Name: DisplayPort-2
Geometry: 0,0,1920x1080
Scale: 1
Refresh Rate: 60


Compositing
===========
Compositing is not active

Last edited by becho4 (2020-05-03 07:57:49)

V1del · 2020-05-03 10:22:24

kcmshell5 kwincompositing

if you don't find it in the normal GUI.

Last edited by V1del (2020-05-03 10:22:41)

becho4 · 2020-05-03 12:15:08

Thank you very much V1del, I managed to enable the desktop effects using the settings GUI you pointed me out:

kcmshell5 kwincompositing

How is that this GUI settings are not available from the Plasma system settings? Is this intentional or I have a problem in my system?

V1del · 2020-05-03 12:45:46

It should be. Display & Monitor -> Compositor here

If the original issue is solved, please mark it as such by editing the title in your first post.

becho4 · 2020-05-03 13:09:29

It should be. Display & Monitor -> Compositor here

Yes, I found it there. I had no idea it was there.

Thank you for the great support!

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