Blur Effects in X11 not working as expected

Hi :grinning: . My english is not good :grin: , forgive me if there is any grammar mistakes.

Let me explain the issue , the blur effects in kde while on x11 is not working correctly :pensive:.
Let me attach a picture , https://imgur.com/jiZyLIq . The main menu has a blur effects by default . But for me the blur effects is not workng . All the blur effects in kde , ( not only in menu ) is very sharp ( like full of grains ) . I tried messing around with compositor settings but its not working. Iā€™m having this issue on all kde distro.
If i use wayland session , the blur effects working as expected. But wayland not suiting for me . While sharing my screen the screen is sharing as fully inverted . I dont know what to do
While i was messing with compositor settings , i found that if i change the Rendering Backend to x render , the blur effects become fully transparent https://imgur.com/nPrXNAA . I hope you can understand my issue.

This is my inxi output :-

  Kernel: 5.4.144-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 
  parameters: ro root=UUID=df68ec32-c7e5-45cf-8a30-dd853cb988d4 
  initrd=boot\initramfs-5.4-x86_64.img 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.5 tk: Qt 5.15.2 info: latte-dock wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 
  dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Notebook v: Type1ProductConfigId 
  serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: HP model: 80CB v: 99.53 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: F.28 
  date: 05/17/2019 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 34.4 Wh (100.0%) condition: 34.4/34.4 Wh (100.0%) 
  volts: 16.6 min: 14.6 model: 131-42-6E HS04041 type: Unknown 
  serial: <filter> status: Full 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 6.74 GiB used: 2.77 GiB (41.2%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: AMD A8-7410 APU with AMD Radeon R5 Graphics bits: 64 
  type: MCP arch: Puma family: 16 (22) model-id: 30 (48) stepping: 1 
  microcode: 7030106 cache: L2: 2 MiB bogomips: 17572 
  Speed: 1781 MHz min/max: 1000/2200 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 1781 2: 1739 3: 1802 4: 1631 
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acc_power aes aperfmperf apic arat avx bmi1 bpext 
  clflush cmov cmp_legacy constant_tsc cpb cpuid cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de 
  decodeassists extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid fpu fxsr fxsr_opt ht 
  hw_pstate ibpb ibs lahf_lm lbrv lm mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor 
  movbe msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae pat 
  pausefilter pclmulqdq pdpe1gb perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni 
  popcnt pse pse36 ptsc rdtscp rep_good sep skinit ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 
  sse4a ssse3 svm svm_lock syscall topoext tsc tsc_scale vme vmmcall wdt xsave 
  xsaveopt 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
  Type: mds status: Not affected 
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: 
  disabled, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Not affected 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Mullins [Radeon R4/R5 Graphics] vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: radeon v: kernel alternate: amdgpu bus-ID: 00:01.0 
  chip-ID: 1002:9851 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) HP Truevision HD type: USB 
  driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-1.1:3 chip-ID: 05c8:0382 class-ID: 0e02 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: 
  loaded: ati,radeon unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa 
  display-ID: :0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0") 
  s-diag: 414mm (16.3") 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD KABINI (DRM 2.50.0 5.4.144-1-MANJARO LLVM 12.0.1) 
  v: 4.5 Mesa 21.2.1 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Kabini HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:01.1 chip-ID: 1002:9840 
  class-ID: 0403 
  Device-2: AMD FCH Azalia vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.2 chip-ID: 1022:780d class-ID: 0403 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.4.144-1-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes 
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.35 running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom BCM43142 802.11b/g/n vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: wl 
  v: kernel modules: bcma port: 3100 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:4365 
  class-ID: 0280 
  IF: wlo1 state: dormant mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 2000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8136 
  class-ID: 0200 
  IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-1: enp0s18u1u1 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: OPPO RMX2193 type: USB driver: rndis_host v: kernel 
  bus-ID: 1-1.1:5 chip-ID: 22d9:276a class-ID: 0a00 serial: <filter> 
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends 
  Device-2: Broadcom BCM43142A0 Bluetooth 4.0 type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 
  bus-ID: 1-1.4:3 chip-ID: 0a5c:216d class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter> 
  Report: This feature requires one of these tools: hciconfig/bt-adapter 
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 11.96 GiB (1.3%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01ABD100 
  size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 2C scheme: GPT 
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: hp model: DVDRW GUB0N rev: UB00 dev-links: cdrom 
  Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes 
  rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 50 GiB size: 48.91 GiB (97.83%) used: 8.53 GiB (17.4%) 
  fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 label: N/A 
  uuid: df68ec32-c7e5-45cf-8a30-dd853cb988d4 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 1 GiB size: 1022.6 MiB (99.80%) 
  used: 123.4 MiB (12.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 
  label: LINUX_BOOT uuid: 26EB-9915 
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 75 GiB size: 73.27 GiB (97.69%) used: 3.31 GiB (4.5%) 
  fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 label: N/A 
  uuid: aadeeae0-0e10-441b-90d3-637edf0ef7c2 
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found. 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 46 GiB fs: ext4 label: N/A 
  uuid: 3314ab5a-8de4-454f-a232-eab804bac642 
  ID-2: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 size: 381 GiB fs: ntfs label: Gaming 
  uuid: 6C38EEE738EEAEF0 
  ID-3: /dev/sda6 maj-min: 8:6 size: 273.9 GiB fs: ntfs label: Others 
  uuid: B0CAF063CAF0276E 
  ID-4: /dev/sda7 maj-min: 8:7 size: 4 GiB fs: swap label: N/A 
  uuid: 4e946f44-e3cf-4d65-a1a4-2ec872e6c4a4 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Advanced Micro Devices Root Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0438:7900 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-1.1:5 info: OPPO RMX2193 type: Bluetooth,CDC-Data 
  driver: rndis_host interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA 
  chip-ID: 22d9:276a class-ID: 0a00 serial: <filter> 
  Device-2: 1-1.4:3 info: Broadcom BCM43142A0 Bluetooth 4.0 type: Bluetooth 
  driver: btusb interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 0a5c:216d 
  class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter> 
  Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 2-1:2 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver type: Keyboard,Mouse 
  driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  power: 98mA chip-ID: 046d:c534 class-ID: 0301 
  Device-2: 2-2:3 info: China Resource Semico Keyboard type: Keyboard,HID 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s 
  power: 98mA chip-ID: 1a2c:2124 class-ID: 0300 
  Hub-4: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-5: 3-1:2 info: Advanced Micro Devices Root Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0438:7900 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 3-1.1:3 
  info: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) HP Truevision HD type: Video 
  driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA 
  chip-ID: 05c8:0382 class-ID: 0e02 
  Hub-6: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 71.6 C mobo: 20.0 C gpu: radeon temp: 71.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 211 Uptime: 26m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 249 tool: systemctl 
  Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: pacman: 1114 lib: 301 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 
  default: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.06 

Waiting for a solution :slightly_smiling_face: . I know you guys can help me :hugs:.

Tweak the Settings > Desktop Effects > Blur the way you want it

Best results still with OpenGL 3.1 in Compositor Settings.

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Thanks sir . This one helped me . After changing the noise strength all the way down to light , The issues got fixed . Thankyou very much for helping me :hugs: :grin:

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