Strange gnome issues on some programs

Some windows have see through sections…
Same with some sections of the obs app minus the see through issue. Also for some reason when it comes to web cams and capture cards the interface glitches out and i cannot change anything in the window.

I have no idea where to start on fixing things.

did something similar with RPCS3 but not with the .appimage version so I am at a loss.

Sounds like a compositor issue. Using Kvantum for Qt applications and also running on Wayland session?

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System:
  Kernel: 5.12.19-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.12-x86_64 
  root=UUID=0072f2f4-c3de-4973-a459-d2a0d11ede9b rw amd_iommu=on 
  rd.driver.pre=vfio-pc kvm.ignore_msrs=1 apparmor=1 security=apparmor 
  udev.log_priority=3 
  Desktop: GNOME 40.4 tk: GTK 3.24.30 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM 40.1 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: MPG B550I GAMING EDGE WIFI (MS-7C92) 
  v: 1.0 serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: 1.61 
  date: 03/03/2021 
Battery:
  Message: No system battery data found. Is one present? 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 31.34 GiB used: 10.95 GiB (34.9%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: 16-Core model: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3 
  family: 19 (25) model-id: 21 (33) stepping: 0 microcode: A201009 cache: 
  L2: 8 MiB bogomips: 217716 
  Speed: 3611 MHz min/max: 2200/5083 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 3611 2: 3599 3: 3599 4: 3600 5: 3598 6: 3592 7: 3596 8: 3599 9: 3600 
  10: 3644 11: 3613 12: 3616 13: 3642 14: 3596 15: 3597 16: 3596 17: 3615 
  18: 3589 19: 3597 20: 3655 21: 3600 22: 3586 23: 3594 24: 3701 25: 3589 
  26: 3597 27: 3598 28: 3599 29: 3686 30: 3597 31: 3746 32: 3595 
  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_vmsave_vmload vaes vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall 
  vpclmulqdq wbnoinvd wdt 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: AMD Navi 21 [Radeon RX 6800/6800 XT / 6900 XT] 
  vendor: Sapphire Limited driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 2d:00.0 
  chip-ID: 1002:73bf class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: Sunplus Innovation Canyon CNS-CWC5 Webcam type: USB 
  driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 5-3.1:4 chip-ID: 1bcf:2284 
  class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter> 
  Device-3: AVerMedia Live Gamer Portable 2 Plus type: USB 
  driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 5-4:13 chip-ID: 07ca:1513 
  class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter> 
  Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.13 compositor: gnome-shell driver: 
  loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: modesetting,radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa 
  resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo> 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT (SIENNA_CICHLID DRM 3.40.0 
  5.12.19-1-MANJARO LLVM 12.0.1) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.1 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 21 HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 6800/6800 XT / 6900 XT] 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 2d:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab28 
  class-ID: 0403 
  Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 2f:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 
  class-ID: 0403 
  Device-3: Plantronics HD1 type: USB driver: plantronics,snd-usb-audio,usbhid 
  bus-ID: 5-1.3:12 chip-ID: 047f:c03b class-ID: 0300 
  Device-4: Sunplus Innovation Canyon CNS-CWC5 Webcam type: USB 
  driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 5-3.1:4 chip-ID: 1bcf:2284 
  class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter> 
  Device-5: AVerMedia Live Gamer Portable 2 Plus type: USB 
  driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 5-4:13 chip-ID: 07ca:1513 
  class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter> 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.12.19-1-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: 0.3.34 running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 29:00.0 
  chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280 
  IF: wlo1 state: up 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: global 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169 
  v: kernel port: f000 bus-ID: 2a:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8125 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: enp42s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-1: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-9:4 
  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: 14.55 TiB used: 7.57 TiB (52.0%) 
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Crucial model: CT1000P1SSD8 
  size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s 
  lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: P3CR010 temp: 51.9 C scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:3 vendor: Western Digital 
  model: WDS100T2B0C-00PXH0 size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B 
  logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> 
  rev: 211210WD temp: 58.9 C 
  ID-3: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 QVO 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: GPT 
  ID-4: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM048-2E7172 
  size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: SDM1 scheme: MBR 
  ID-5: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 870 QVO 2TB 
  size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 1B6Q scheme: MBR 
  ID-6: /dev/sdd maj-min: 8:48 vendor: Seagate model: ST8000DM004-2CX188 
  size: 7.28 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  type: HDD rpm: 5425 serial: <filter> rev: 0001 
  ID-7: /dev/sde maj-min: 8:64 type: USB vendor: Western Digital 
  model: WD Elements 2621 size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B 
  logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 1026 scheme: GPT 
  Message: No optical or floppy data found. 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 931.22 GiB size: 915.6 GiB (98.32%) 
  used: 724.77 GiB (79.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 
  label: N/A uuid: 0072f2f4-c3de-4973-a459-d2a0d11ede9b 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%) 
  used: 25.6 MiB (8.5%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 label: N/A 
  uuid: D928-FF39 
  ID-3: /mnt/8TB raw-size: 7.28 TiB size: 7.22 TiB (99.20%) 
  used: 2.78 TiB (38.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdd maj-min: 8:48 label: 8TB 
  uuid: 221edea4-d7f6-4436-b8a4-4757a2cd63ed 
  ID-4: /mnt/HDD raw-size: 931.51 GiB size: 915.89 GiB (98.32%) 
  used: 808.6 GiB (88.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 label: HDD 
  uuid: b2aaf6d8-77d8-4fbe-9089-026886aca461 
  ID-5: /mnt/Samsung QVO 2TB raw-size: 1.13 TiB size: 1.11 TiB (98.34%) 
  used: 1001.09 GiB (88.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc1 maj-min: 8:33 
  label: Samsung QVO 2TB uuid: 77c012ff-1cfb-4ce2-94a3-5df078e9ba48 
  ID-6: /mnt/WDSSD raw-size: 931.51 GiB size: 915.82 GiB (98.31%) 
  used: 810.36 GiB (88.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:3 
  label: WDSSD uuid: 92167084-cfb6-428f-b24c-11d45e6c1fea 
  ID-7: /run/media/vampymix/Elements raw-size: 1.82 TiB 
  size: 1.82 TiB (100.00%) used: 1.52 TiB (83.7%) fs: exfat dev: /dev/sde1 
  maj-min: 8:65 label: Elements uuid: 29B5-66C6 
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found. 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 16 MiB fs: ext4 label: SSD-EXT4 
  uuid: fe6b707e-af70-4906-99d1-84e4289ffea3 
  ID-2: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 931.5 GiB fs: ntfs label: N/A 
  uuid: CEE8AFD6E8AFBB5B 
  ID-3: /dev/sdc2 maj-min: 8:34 size: 707.18 GiB fs: ntfs label: S2TB 
  uuid: 01D76F6111CC1FE0 
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: 1-5:8 info: ASUSTek ROG STRIX SCOPE TKL type: Keyboard,HID 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  power: 500mA chip-ID: 0b05:190c class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: 1-6:3 info: SteelSeries ApS SteelSeries Rival 600 type: HID,Mouse 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  power: 200mA chip-ID: 1038:1724 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-3: 1-9:4 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 
  Device-4: 1-10:5 info: Micro Star MYSTIC LIGHT type: HID 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  power: 500mA chip-ID: 1462:7c92 class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter> 
  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 
  Device-1: 2-3:2 info: Western Digital Elements 2621 type: Mass Storage 
  driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 3.1 speed: 5 Gb/s power: 896mA 
  chip-ID: 1058:2621 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter> 
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 1 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 1 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-5: 5-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-6: 5-1:10 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  power: 100mA chip-ID: 05e3:0610 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 5-1.3:12 info: Plantronics HD1 type: Audio,HID 
  driver: plantronics,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 047f:c03b class-ID: 0300 
  Hub-7: 5-2:14 info: Terminus Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  power: 100mA chip-ID: 1a40:0101 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 5-2.1:15 info: Microdia Redragon Mitra RGB Keyboard 
  type: Keyboard,Mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 12 Mb/s power: 400mA chip-ID: 0c45:5004 class-ID: 0301 
  Hub-8: 5-3:2 info: Realtek 3-Port USB 2.1 Hub ports: 3 rev: 2.1 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 0bda:5409 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 5-3.1:4 info: Sunplus Innovation Canyon CNS-CWC5 Webcam 
  type: Video,Audio driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 1bcf:2284 class-ID: 0102 
  serial: <filter> 
  Device-2: 5-3.3:5 info: Realtek Hub Controller type: HID 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  power: 100mA chip-ID: 0bda:1100 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-3: 5-4:13 info: AVerMedia Live Gamer Portable 2 Plus 
  type: Video,Audio driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 07ca:1513 class-ID: 0102 
  serial: <filter> 
  Hub-9: 6-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-10: 6-1:4 info: Genesys Logic USB3.1 Hub ports: N/A rev: 3.2 
  speed: 5 Gb/s chip-ID: 05e3:0626 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-11: 6-3:2 info: Realtek 2-Port USB 3.1 Hub ports: 2 rev: 3.2 
  speed: 5 Gb/s chip-ID: 0bda:0409 class-ID: 0900 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 65.2 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 52.0 C 
  mem: 52.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0 
Info:
  Processes: 574 Uptime: 1d 4h 49m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 248 
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 12.0.1 Packages: pacman: 1725 
  lib: 510 flatpak: 0 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 running-in: gnome-terminal 
  inxi: 3.3.06 

There is an update for that BIOS MSI MPG B550I GAMING EDGE WIFI AMD AM4 DDR4 M.2 USB 3.2 Gen 2 HDMI ITX Gaming Motherboard probably not chose the beta one, but the latest one before that.

You should switch to either 5.13 or 5.14 as AFAIK have better support for AMD GPUs.
Other than that, not sure what the issue could be as you run on X11 … Is this happening only with Qt applications?

Upon updating the Kernel and testing both 5.13 & 5.14 and updating to latest stable bios the issue is still here. Also how would I check if an application is a Qt one?

Each program has a Help>About section (most do) and there you can se on what engine was built on.
Qt or GTK (and other programming languages, but we are interested only in those two) so we know if that might be the issue.

I think it is a Qt problem as using anything like gtk or built for gnome apps seem to work completely fine

Then the only thing to look for fault, is the Kvantum engine for Qt themes. Personally i preferred to install on Gnome the advaita-qt and qt5ct packages, and use qt5 Settings to set the theme to adwaita-qt. Removed Kvantum and the themes of it. Then in /etc/environment i have this two entries:

QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1
QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME="qt5ct"

All works and is consistent. Now, you might not like Adwaita, but maybe worth a try before going to try something else.

Perfect that’s seems to have fixed everything
:smiley: