Went away from my computer for a bathroom break. When I came back I noticed it took a very long time to wake up. But that was the least of my worries, as Plasma seems to now be really bugged out:

Two things: Window decorations (like the ones at the top with the buttons to close and such) do not render properly. That’s the simple part

The other, weirder one, is harder to explain in text so I made a video – The short version is that whenever I mouse over any icon in a panel, be it a tray icon or something on the taskbar thingie – it seems to jump to the top-right corner of that panel. Though only visually (as in, to interact with it, I still have to click the blank space the icon once occupied)

I have also noticed that icons within qt6 windows do not show in the proper place

These persisted after reboots.

Other info:

  • Linux/KDE Plasma: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed 20240531
  • KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.5
  • KDE Frameworks Version: 6.2.0
  • Qt Version: 6.7.1
  • Kernel: 6.9.3-1-default (64-bit)
  • Graphics platform: X11

Extra details about system (idk maybe it helps?):

  1. I have an AMD Processor and GPU
  2. All the things I have installed are either from the official SUSE Repos or from Flatpak. There’s also some appimages and local executables in my user folder. There is 1(one) application I compiled from source and installed system-wide, and that was Orbiton, a text editor for terminal.
  3. When I update the system I get a notification about how updating glibc-32bit would break Steam. So I marked it as untouchable on YaST. Maybe this broke something else? Idk.

Things I have already tried:

  1. Updating the system
  2. Rebooting
  3. Changing theming configurations back to system defaults (hey, you never know)
  4. Moving widgets around in panels
  5. Disabling fancy effects
  6. Disabling and re-enabling my second monitor/changing which monitor is the primary
  7. Asking nicely

Things I have not tried:

  1. Switching to Wayland (I would do so permanently but it breaks Inkscape for me and that’s part of my workflow – Plus I’m new to SUSE, and the last time I switched from X to Wayland was on EndeavourOS, dunno if the process is any different)
  2. Crying

I have also posted this to the kde bug tracker. Posting it here to in hopes of getting an answer sooner :P

EDIT: I gave it some time to see if it would stick and it did. So. “Going into the Plasma Renderer settings and switching it to OpenGL” was the solution to my issue, even if I have no idea what caused it, I at least seem to have fixed it