Manjaro KDE and Blur-Translucent Sections Pixaleted Issue

Hey MANjaros,

I’ve came back to my old home -Manjaro- after 2 years almost. It looks very stable actually than when I’d left to try others. My old days boi is better today; congrats to the team and the community. And why my old account removed on forum btw? Anyways let’s look at the issue.

Just annoying issue is there what I could not solve it yet what maybe hardware related though, dunno. The issue is pixelation on

When blur and translucent enabled that dotted pixelation appears.

As you can see on the second image there is no pixel problem on my screen but just blurred/translucent parts. Nothing to do used theme coz already tried other translucent themes ans same result occured.


inxi -Fxz

System:    Kernel: 5.13.19-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.5
           Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Nitro AN515-44 v: V1.04 serial: <filter>
           Mobo: RO model: Stonic_RNS v: V1.04 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: 1.04 date: 02/04/2021
Battery:   ID-1: BAT1 charge: 44.8 Wh (79.4%) condition: 56.4/58.8 Wh (95.9%) volts: 16.3 min: 15.4
           model: SMP AP18E7M status: Unknown
CPU:       Info: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 4800H with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 rev: 1
           cache: L2: 4 MiB
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 92660
           Speed: 2065 MHz min/max: 1400/2900 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2065 2: 2731 3: 1397
           4: 1397 5: 1397 6: 1397 7: 1397 8: 1397 9: 1981 10: 1397 11: 1397 12: 1397 13: 1445 14: 1397
           15: 1397 16: 1400
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile] vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: nvidia
           v: 470.63.01 bus-ID: 01:00.0
           Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Renoir vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: amdgpu
           v: kernel bus-ID: 05:00.0
           Device-3: Quanta HD User Facing type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-3:3
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: loaded: amdgpu,ati,nvidia unloaded: modesetting,nouveau
           resolution: 1920x1080
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.41.0 5.13.19-2-MANJARO LLVM 12.0.1) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.3
           direct render: Yes
Audio:     Device-1: NVIDIA vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1
           Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor
           vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: N/A bus-ID: 05:00.5
           Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 05:00.6
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.13.19-2-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: 0.3.38 running: yes
Network:   Device-1: Realtek vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 2000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
           IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 04:00.0
           IF: wlp4s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth: Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-4:2
           Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: down bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no
           software: yes address: see --recommends
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 34 GiB (7.1%)
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: PC SN530 SDBPNPZ-512G-1014 size: 476.94 GiB
           temp: 29.9 C
Partition: ID-1: / size: 151.53 GiB used: 33.95 GiB (22.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4
           ID-2: /boot/efi size: 1020 MiB used: 43.4 MiB (4.3%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:      Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 49.4 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 32.0 C
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:      Processes: 380 Uptime: 55m Memory: 15.01 GiB used: 3.62 GiB (24.1%) Init: systemd Compilers:
           gcc: N/A Packages: 1273 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 inxi: 3.3.08

hwinfo --gfxcard

15: PCI 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)             
  [Created at pci.386]
  Unique ID: VCu0.o+PC+8Gpi0C
  Parent ID: mnDB.oGVH8zZKnmD
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.1/0000:01:00.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0
  Hardware Class: graphics card
  Model: "nVidia TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile]"
  Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x1f95 "TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile]"
  SubVendor: pci 0x1025 "Acer Incorporated [ALI]"
  SubDevice: pci 0x1447 
  Revision: 0xa1
  Driver: "nvidia"
  Driver Modules: "nvidia"
  Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xd0ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xfcc0000000-0xfccfffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xfcd0000000-0xfcd1ffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
  I/O Ports: 0x3000-0x307f (rw)
  Memory Range: 0xd1080000-0xd10fffff (ro,non-prefetchable,disabled)
  IRQ: 98 (7120 events)
  Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd00001F95sv00001025sd00001447bc03sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: nouveau is not active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nouveau"
  Driver Info #1:
    Driver Status: nvidia_drm is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nvidia_drm"
  Driver Info #2:
    Driver Status: nvidia is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nvidia"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #27 (PCI bridge)

28: PCI 500.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)
  [Created at pci.386]
  Unique ID: Ddhb.vBXJnaVSGnA
  Parent ID: JZZT.e+TNXSUNut3
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.1/0000:05:00.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:05:00.0
  Hardware Class: graphics card
  Model: "ATI Renoir"
  Vendor: pci 0x1002 "ATI Technologies Inc"
  Device: pci 0x1636 "Renoir"
  SubVendor: pci 0x1025 "Acer Incorporated [ALI]"
  SubDevice: pci 0x1455 
  Revision: 0xc6
  Driver: "amdgpu"
  Driver Modules: "amdgpu"
  Memory Range: 0xfce0000000-0xfcefffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xfcf0000000-0xfcf01fffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
  I/O Ports: 0x1000-0x10ff (rw)
  Memory Range: 0xd1500000-0xd157ffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  IRQ: 63 (no events)
  Module Alias: "pci:v00001002d00001636sv00001025sd00001455bc03sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: amdgpu is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe amdgpu"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #21 (PCI bridge)

Primary display adapter: #15


mhwd -li

Installed PCI configs:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
video-hybrid-amd-nvidia-prime            2021.07.28               false            PCI
           video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI


Warning: No installed USB configs!

I’d installed Manjaro KDE with .iso and used Open Source drivers first. After figure out that annoying pixelated parts tried proprietary drivers but nothing changed.

How can I solve those ugly dotted pixels?

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It appears to be the result of a high noise value in the settings for the blur effect. I would suggest lowering the noise value. You can compensate that by increasing the blur value.

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Oh my eyes! It solved all the issue. Blur effect should come with lower or zero noise, puff that stole my all day to solve :smiley:

Thanks

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