Having problems with kde zoom and screen edge presenting windows

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By kde zoom I mean the desktop effect setting which is normally bound to Meta+=.
They both worked until recently and I tried changing the screen edge and what kind of window presenting in settings.
I realize this is not much information but I don’t know what is actually relevant so I will just try to answer questions.

Thank you for your time.

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  • Are the effects still enabled in your desktop effects settings?

  • Is your compositor running?

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When I go to compositor in settings it gives me a button to re-enable OpenGL detection with the risk of an immediate crash and an unchecked checkbox to enable compositor on startup.
I should also mention that other desktop effects still work and other screen edge things still work.
As far as I can tell the effects are enabled.

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That means your compositor isn’t running.

Without the compositor, you cannot has desktop effectses, Preciousss. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Huh
But why do other ones still work?

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Which ones?

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Wait no none work and I was going crazy, however I checked that checkbox and it still doesn’t work after reboot
applications are also able to block the compositor in case that matters

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Maybe your graphics adapter is no longer supported by OpenGL. Which one do you have?

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Sorry, how do I check that?

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inxi -F
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Can you try switching to OpenGL 3.1 in Compositer Settings

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Graphics:
Device-1: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] driver: i915 v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.21.1.2 driver: loaded: modesetting
resolution: 2256x1504~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel Xe Graphics (TGL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.3.2

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Ok I just tried that and after rebooting its still not working

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Do you have xf86-video-intel installed? If not, then you can try installing that… :arrow_down:

sudo mhwd -i pci xf86-video-intel
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Error: config ‘xf86-video-intel’ does not exist!

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Ok I just did sudo mhwd -l and got back:

0000:00:02.0 (0300:8086:9a49) Display controller Intel Corporation:

              NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE

       video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI
 video-modesetting            2020.01.13                true            PCI
        video-vesa            2017.03.12                true            PCI

don’t know if that is helpful I am just trying to get more info

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The package is still in the repos. Okay, try this then… :arrow_down:

pamac install xf86-video-intel
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it said it was up to date

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Ok after switching to OpenGl 3.1 in Compositor settings and back to OpenGL 2.0 it appears to have been fixed.

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