I’m missing the animations for some, but apparently not all, desktop effects. In particular, animations for maximising, minimising, present windows, sliding popups (and probably others) are missing (they all just happen instantaneously). However, this isn’t a problem with the compositor just not running, because I can turn on wobbly widows and that works fine (not that I want it, but it works if I did). I also checked animation speed setting, which is in the middle of the slider.
Current settings:
Manjaro KDE
Nvidia 3070 Ti driver version: 470.63.01
Plasma version: 5.22.5
Frameworks version: 5.87.0
Qt version: 5.15.2
Kernel: 5.13.19-2-MANJARO (64-bit)
X11
Things I’ve tried after searching around (to no avail):
Re-starting the compositor with Alt-Shift-F12
Changing the compositor backend
Turning off “allow animations to block compositing”
Hi @jmaargh , and welcome!
While I doubt I’ll be able to help you, please see How to provide good information as well as [HowTo] post screenshots and links
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I’ve edited it to follow the guidelines.
(incidentally, these weren’t linked from the welcome message we all receive, it might be a good idea to update this especially as it contains generic links about trust levels that are misleading because this forum has customised the settings)
inxidetails:
System:
Kernel: 5.13.19-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.13-x86_64
root=UUID=9aa1f23f-7c17-45b6-9c00-18ba5e2aa311 rw quiet udev.log_priority=3
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: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: B550I AORUS PRO AX v: N/A
serial: <filter>
Mobo: Gigabyte model: B550I AORUS PRO AX serial: <filter>
UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: F14d date: 10/01/2021
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Gaming Mouse
serial: <filter> charge: 5% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
status: Discharging
Memory:
RAM: total: 15.53 GiB used: 4.68 GiB (30.1%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3
family: 19 (25) model-id: 21 (33) stepping: 0 microcode: A201016 cache:
L2: 3 MiB bogomips: 88668
Speed: 3743 MHz min/max: 2200/3700 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz):
1: 3743 2: 3125 3: 3003 4: 2906 5: 2881 6: 2970 7: 3122 8: 3084 9: 3701
10: 2966 11: 3018 12: 2993
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1
bmi2 bpext cat_l3 cdp_l3 clflush clflushopt clwb clzero cmov cmp_legacy
constant_tsc cpb cpuid cqm cqm_llc cqm_mbm_local cqm_mbm_total cqm_occup_llc
cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists erms extapic extd_apicid f16c
flushbyasid fma fpu fsgsbase fsrm fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb ibrs ibs
invpcid irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm mba mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor
movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc nopl npt nrip_save nx ospke osvw
overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq pdpe1gb perfctr_core
perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pku pni popcnt pse pse36 rdpid rdpru
rdrand rdseed rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sep sha_ni skinit smap smca smep ssbd
sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 stibp succor svm svm_lock syscall tce
topoext tsc tsc_scale umip v_spec_ctrl v_vmsave_vmload vaes vgif vmcb_clean
vme vmmcall vpclmulqdq wbnoinvd wdt x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveerptr
xsaveopt xsaves
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, IBRS_FW,
STIBP: always-on, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 [GeForce RTX 3070 Ti] driver: nvidia v: 470.63.01
alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 09:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2482
class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 compositor: kwin_x11 driver:
loaded: nvidia display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 5120x1440 s-dpi: 108 s-size: 1204x342mm (47.4x13.5")
s-diag: 1252mm (49.3")
Monitor-1: DP-0 res: 2560x1440 hz: 144 dpi: 109 size: 597x336mm (23.5x13.2")
diag: 685mm (27")
Monitor-2: DP-2 res: 2560x1440 hz: 60 dpi: 109 size: 597x336mm (23.5x13.2")
diag: 685mm (27")
OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.63.01 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 09:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228b class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 0b:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487
class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Kingston HyperX Cloud Stinger Core Wireless + 7.1 type: USB
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-1:2 chip-ID: 0951:170b
class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
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 RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel
port: e000 bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8125 class-ID: 0200
IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 08:00.0
chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp8s0 state: down mac: <filter>
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-8:4
chip-ID: 8087:0029 class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.82 TiB used: 890.5 GiB (47.8%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Kingston model: SA2000M81000G
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: S5Z44106 temp: 40.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 1TB
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 1B6Q scheme: MBR
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 931.22 GiB size: 915.53 GiB (98.32%)
used: 166.32 GiB (18.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
label: N/A uuid: 9aa1f23f-7c17-45b6-9c00-18ba5e2aa311
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
label: NO_LABEL uuid: 235A-A3A6
ID-3: /run/media/john-mark/1c3efb1b-d3f1-4b9d-818f-0d8fa7f19de5
raw-size: 465.76 GiB size: 457.44 GiB (98.22%) used: 274.42 GiB (60.0%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: N/A
uuid: 1c3efb1b-d3f1-4b9d-818f-0d8fa7f19de5
ID-4: /run/media/john-mark/Data raw-size: 465.75 GiB
size: 465.75 GiB (100.00%) used: 449.75 GiB (96.6%) fs: ntfs dev: /dev/sda2
maj-min: 8:2 label: Data uuid: 5FCA6AFE3C42D270
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 512 MiB used: 6.8 MiB (1.3%) priority: -2
file: /swapfile
Unmounted:
Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 10 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-1:2 info: Kingston HyperX Cloud Stinger Core Wireless + 7.1
type: Audio,HID driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 4
rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0951:170b class-ID: 0300
serial: <filter>
Device-2: 1-3:5 info: Kingston HyperX Cloud Stinger Core Wireless + 7.1
type: HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 500mA chip-ID: 0951:170d class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
Device-3: 1-7:3 info: Integrated Express ITE Device type: HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 100mA chip-ID: 048d:5702 class-ID: 0300
Device-4: 1-8:4 info: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: Bluetooth driver: btusb
interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0029
class-ID: e001
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 3-1:2 info: Logitech G413 Gaming Keyboard type: Keyboard,HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 500mA chip-ID: 046d:c33a class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
Device-2: 3-2:3 info: Logitech Cordless Mouse Receiver type: Mouse,HID
driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 98mA chip-ID: 046d:c537 class-ID: 0300
Device-3: 3-4:4 info: Valve Wireless Steam Controller type: Keyboard,HID
driver: hid-steam,usbhid interfaces: 5 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA
chip-ID: 28de:1142 class-ID: 0300
Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 48.9 C mobo: 16.8 C gpu: nvidia temp: 46 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 30%
Info:
Processes: 309 Uptime: 6h 8m wakeups: 2 Init: systemd v: 249 tool: systemctl
Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: 1233 pacman: 1222 lib: 420 flatpak: 11
Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.08
Hi @jmaargh ,
Should it happen again, try restarting the compositor fro m the Command line with the command:
kwin_x11 --replace >/dev/null
I remember mine doing this as well in the past, now that I think about it. No idea why it stopped, though. It just did. Automagically.
@Mirdarthos Thanks for replying! Unfortunately it’s not “happening again”, the animations just never work, even on a fresh boot.
After the update to KDE Plasma 5.23, I have lost the exploding effect when closing a software window (like MacOS), but I have found it solved when I switch the system theme from (Manjaro remaded) Breath to KDE Breeze .
DE: KDE 5.87.0 / Plasma 5.23.1
WM: KWin
GTK Theme: Breeze [GTK2/3]
Icon Theme: breath2
The same as @omano 's solution, maybe the Breeze theme needs update.
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/kde-discussion-about-possible-removal-from-their-recommended-distro-list/86555
Hi again @jmaargh ,
Random thought: have you checked to see if it works with a Live ISO? Both the open-source and the proprietary drivers.
omano
25 October 2021 11:45
9
I never really noticed if these effects were working on my side, and despite being enabled, or disabled I wouldn’t see the difference, after messing around I found that disabling, rebooting, and enabling these effects again, and rebooting, made them work as intended. Then I went one tick up in the animation speed setting, just one, applied, and it broke the animations again. I think it may broke somewhere when mixing some settings, and probably some kind of corrupt cache is lying around and is cleared after disabling/rebooting, but then get corrupt again when changing some other settings.
This needs more tries and troubleshooting, but this is where I am now.
omano
27 October 2021 11:00
10
I found out that using Breeze for the Windows Decoration, fixes the animations issues. Same for GTK Application Style, went back to Breeze and it fixes it.
I’ve had no luck with chaning the theme(s) to breeze. Tried window decoration theme, application theme, and plasma theme
omano
30 October 2021 00:03
12
What about the previous post then?
