I am on the KDE plasma version of Manjaro 20.0.3. The text/fonts below the icons in the start menu panel sometimes go blur and the text is not readable. It works when I close out the menu a few times and reopen it or change the desktop theme. Is this a bug or something I messed up.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
Hello and welcome.
If by changing the theme solves the issue, then make sure the actual theme you want to use is updated.
Try to clean the content of ~/.cache/ folder in your user home, reboot and see if the issue persists.
Are you running compton / picom?
If you kill it, does the blurring vanish?
Thanks for the tip. I’ll give it a try
Not sure if it already comes by default, but I have not installed it manually.
@bogdancovaciu, I tried with different themes. Issue is intermittent but goes away if If I change some UI settings like changing the theme or fonts or icons etc. Comes back eventually again.
I am not allowed to share images or links yet so not able to show you guys.
Provide from terminal
inxi -Fxza --no-host
Use the default settings and themes, after you clean the cache and do a couple of reboots. If the issue is not present, then might be related to the themes you set and are not provided by us.
If the compositor crashes, then that might be also a hint. Set it like this:
Thanks for your response. I have been using the default theme and have tried using other themes as well. The compositor settings we Set to OpenGL 2.0 first but I have matched the settings you have provided with still no luck after reboot. Here is the sys info from the terminal output you had asked:
System: Kernel: 5.7.17-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.7-x86_64 root=UUID=976990cc-1581-4f88-91b8-0a71239e7240 rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor resume=UUID=2e389762-7a3e-4832-97a7-86c5065fa7ca udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.19.4 tk: Qt 5.15.0 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine: Type: Desktop System: Micro-Star product: MS-7C02 v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Micro-Star model: B450 TOMAHAWK MAX (MS-7C02) v: 1.0 serial: <filter> UEFI [Legacy]:
American Megatrends
v: 3.60 date: 04/22/2020
Battery: Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard serial: <filter> charge: 55% (should be ignored)
rechargeable: yes status: Discharging
Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse serial: <filter> charge: 55% (should be ignored)
rechargeable: yes status: Discharging
CPU: Topology: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 family: 17 (23) model-id: 71 (113)
stepping: N/A microcode: 8701021 L2 cache: 3072 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 91230
Speed: 2199 MHz min/max: 2200/3800 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2282 2: 2006 3: 2055 4: 2059 5: 2027
6: 3590 7: 2057 8: 2057 9: 2470 10: 2029 11: 2025 12: 3599
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: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA TU116 [GeForce GTX 1660 Ti] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nvidia v: 450.66
alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus ID: 26:00.0 chip ID: 10de:2182
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: nvidia display ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 81 s-size: 602x343mm (23.7x13.5") s-diag: 693mm (27.3")
Monitor-1: DP-2 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 82 size: 598x336mm (23.5x13.2") diag: 686mm (27")
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1660 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 450.66 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: NVIDIA TU116 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 26:00.1
chip ID: 10de:1aeb
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 28:00.4 chip ID: 1022:1487
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.7.17-2-MANJARO
Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169 v: kernel
port: f000 bus ID: 22:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp34s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: docker0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 1.66 TiB used: 25.24 GiB (1.5%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD3200AAJS-00L7A0 size: 298.09 GiB block size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 3E01 scheme: MBR
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST31000528AS size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B
speed: 3.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: CC38 scheme: MBR
ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Seagate model: ST500DM002-1BD142 size: 465.76 GiB block size: physical: 4096 B
logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: KC44 scheme: MBR
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 92.00 GiB size: 90.05 GiB (97.89%) used: 25.24 GiB (28.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4
Swap: Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 45.1 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 34 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 43%
Info: Processes: 278 Uptime: 6m Memory: 15.65 GiB used: 1.27 GiB (8.1%) Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0
Packages: pacman: 1268 lib: 349 flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 running in: konsole inxi: 3.1.05Please also provide:
mhwd -li
cat /etc/modprobe.d/mhwd-gpu.conf
cat /etc/modules-load.d/mhwd-gpu.conf
cat /etc/X11/mhwd.d/nvidia.conf
mhwd -li
Installed PCI configs:
NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
video-nvidia-450xx 2019.10.25 false PCI
video-linux 2018.05.04 true PCI
Warning: No installed USB configs!
cat /etc/modprobe.d/mhwd-gpu.conf
##
## Generated by mhwd - Manjaro Hardware Detection
##
blacklist nouveau
blacklist ttm
blacklist drm_kms_helper
blacklist drm
cat /etc/modules-load.d/mhwd-gpu.conf
##
## Generated by mhwd - Manjaro Hardware Detection
##
nvidia
nvidia-drm
cat /etc/X11/mhwd.d/nvidia.conf
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 450.57
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
Option "NoLogo" "1"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "COMPOSITE" "Enable"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Keyboard Defaults"
MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
EndSectioni suggest to remove the video-linux driver, and then try this
and this
IMHO it should help with the font issue too.
@bogdancovaciu - Thanks for the detailed explanation and sorry for the delay in response. After removing the video-linux driver, I am not seeing the issue from the past couple of days.
It may have done the trick. But have not made the other plasma config changes. Will try it out if the issue re-appears and will keep monitoring. But for now it looks good to close.
I appreciate your help and assistance regarding the issue.
Cheers!
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