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I’m on wayland too, using nvidia-dkms. It is the same with linux611-nvidia.
I haven’t tried on X11.

I found the culprit. It’s the desktop-pager widget: I have it in my vertical panel. After removing it, everything was smooth again.

I tried to put the widget on the desktop (outside of the panel): everything was smooth.
I added a new desktop pager widget from scratch into the panel: it was sluggy again.

I repeated the same in a session of a brand new user: when the widget is in the vertical panel, and I move the windows around, they are sluggish for, say 1/3 of the second - just when I start moving them, but then they are smooth again.

I’ll make some more tests, trying to reproduce it inside an empty user profile. If I am able to do that, I’ll then open an issue upstream.

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Kde plasma 6.2 broke sddm-breath-theme 24.0.0.3. System defaulted to non-theme SDDM screen with error message concerning selected breath theme.

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You didn’t explain why - but I saw this with Testing update today.

///usr/share/sddm/themes/.../Main.qml Library import requires a version.

Try installing a new theme - pick something like Sonoma and test it.

When you switch back to Breath, it works.

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When using the grid view in KDE, moving the mouse causes screen flickering. After repeatedly sliding the mouse to trigger the flickering, KDE enters a pseudo-hang state where I can use keyboard shortcuts, but clicking on the UI will have no effect.

Is there a similar quick UI restart method in KDE like alt+f2 then typing R in GNOME?

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I tried one, Sonomatic, it appears well itself but Breath is still broken. Breeze theme works well though.
Manually reinstalling Breath SDDM package did not work either.

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Tried your proposal but breath would no come back to work.
As @Falav said, breeze SDDM theme works.

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looks like breath has a few things in it SDDM changed / got rid of

from what i can tell from my limited knowledge of SDDM
/usr/share/sddm/themes/breath/Main.qml has a few things that need to be changed to work. for now i commented out “fontSize: parseInt(config.fontSize) + 1” between lines 210-239 & 354-382, as well as changed "iconSource: * " to "icon.name: * "

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I noticed since a few updates (before and now with latest KDE 6.2) that when I right click the speaker icon in the systray and click Configure audio devices (or you can left click the speaker icon and then click the wheel icon to go to exact same place) that it opens the settings on a blank empty configuration page, you see it is the Sound Settings that is selected on the left side menu, but it shows nothing in the page. If you click something else in the left side menu, then click back on Sound, then it properly shows the Sound Settings in the page.

I cleared the .cache folder from TTY but same result when I log back in. Seems like it is a KDE issue. Can you reproduce it too?

//EDIT: 493266 – kcm_pulseaudio Doesn't Load on the First Launch with Qt 6.8

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If you have pavucontrol-qt installed and that is working OK it is probably an issue with plasma GUI controls

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it indeed was introduced few updates before 6.2 in mine as well

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Breath SDDM issue solve with update to sddm-breath-theme 24.0.0.4

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Kernel 6.10 has been marked [EOL] on kernel.org

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Farewell and R.I.P. Kernel 6.10… We barely knew you at all… :crying_cat_face:

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We recently updated pamac to support libalpm v15. Let us know if you see issues with that: Branch compare for Manjaro

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Solved the issue by switching to wayland.

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after upgrade to plasma 6.2, plasmashell was crashing right after login for me (but not kwin).
was able to follow the advice in this thread to get it fixed: Plasmashell Crashes after login (Black screen) - Help - KDE Discuss

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As this user also mentioned [Unstable Update] September 2024 Edition - #83 by ydar

I cannot resume after suspend now with Kernel 6.11 and nvidia 560.35.03-16.

The system powers up, monitors never fully come on and then it just appears to freeze, I can’t switch to terminals, numlock stops working etc and I have to manually power the system off and power back on.

This is using Gnome/Wayland.

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Was also getting freezes with 611 and 612 after resume (maybe other times?).

This is on amdgpu+plasma+wayland+linux611+

Which was shown at least partially by logs like

linux611 kernel 6.11 kwin_wayland_drm: Pageflip timed out! This is a kernel bug

Seemingly related (or maybe some of the links in it anyways):
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=298760

Will have to check again.

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No problems here with suspending/resuming on Gnome/Wayland with amdgpu (mesa 24.2.4 on 7900 XT), Nvidia to blame again?

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Not necessarily. The only change was the kernel, and all other kernels I’ve tried work as intended (6.10, 6.6, and 6.1). Clearly something in 6.11 changed such that with nvidia it doesn’t resume function properly and either nvidia needs a patch or the kernel needs a fix.

Update, tried the recently updated 6.11.5, suspended last night and resumed correctly this morning, so all is well.