Text glitching in KDE

The text deforms or disappears either while searching something or mousing over it. I have noticed it happening in the application launcher and system settings.
Here are some examples:

Summary

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Here is my inxi -Fxxza output:

System: Host: Pepega Kernel: 5.12.8-163-tkg-pds x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 
       parameters: intel_pstate=passive BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux512-tkg-pds 
       root=UUID=b86d9343-d7d3-4c0e-878d-d8d39a6de87d rw radeon.cik_support=0 radeon.si_support=0 
       amdgpu.cik_support=1 amdgpu.si_support=1 amdgpu.dc=1 quiet apparmor=1 security=apparmor 
       resume=UUID=7e762033-a483-4ae5-9b8f-d54af4e2a4e9 udev.log_priority=3 
       Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.5 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: Z68 Pro3 Gen3 serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: P2.30B 
       date: 11/20/2013
CPU: Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-2500K bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Sandy Bridge family: 6 model-id: 2A (42) 
       stepping: 7 microcode: 2F cache: L2: 6 MiB 
       flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 26338 
       Speed: 2445 MHz min/max: 1600/3700 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2445 2: 2490 3: 2467 4: 2430 
       Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
       Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled 
       Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled 
       Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
       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 generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
       Type: srbds status: Not affected 
       Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics: Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics vendor: ASRock driver: i915 
       v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0112 class-ID: 0380 
       Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Hawaii PRO [Radeon R9 290/390] vendor: Micro-Star MSI 
       driver: amdgpu v: kernel alternate: radeon bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:67b1 class-ID: 0300 
       Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: loaded: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1 
       Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 677x285mm (26.7x11.2") s-diag: 735mm (28.9") 
       Monitor-1: DisplayPort-3 res: 2560x1080 dpi: 81 size: 798x334mm (31.4x13.1") diag: 865mm (34.1") 
       OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon R9 390 Series (HAWAII DRM 3.40.0 5.12.8-163-tkg-pds LLVM 12.0.0) 
       v: 4.6 Mesa 21.1.2 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio vendor: ASRock driver: snd_hda_intel 
       v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:1c20 class-ID: 0403 
       Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Hawaii HDMI Audio [Radeon R9 290/290X / 390/390X] 
       vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:aac8 class-ID: 0403 
       Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.12.8-163-tkg-pds running: yes 
       Sound Server-2: sndio v: N/A running: no 
       Sound Server-3: JACK v: 1.9.18 running: no 
       Sound Server-4: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
       Sound Server-5: PipeWire v: 0.3.29 running: yes
Network:  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASRock driver: r8169 v: kernel 
       port: d000 bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200 
       IF: enp5s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 314.98 GiB (26.9%) 
       SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
       ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 PRO 256GB size: 238.47 GiB block-size: 
       physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 4B6Q scheme: GPT 
       ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EALX-009BA0 size: 931.51 GiB block-size: 
       physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 1H15 scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 237.97 GiB size: 233.24 GiB (98.01%) used: 30.19 GiB (12.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
       maj-min: 8:2 
       ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 513 MiB size: 512 MiB (99.80%) used: 9.1 MiB (1.8%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 
       maj-min: 8:1 
       ID-3: /home raw-size: 915.51 GiB size: 900.14 GiB (98.32%) used: 284.77 GiB (31.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb2 
       maj-min: 8:18 
Swap: Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 50 (default 100) 
       ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 16 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 63.0 C 
       Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 628 
Info: Processes: 217 Uptime: 10h 37m wakeups: 0 Memory: 15.53 GiB used: 3.74 GiB (24.1%) Init: systemd v: 248 
       tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 12.0.0 Packages: pacman: 1657 lib: 441 flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash 
       v: 5.1.8 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.04 

Any help would be much appreciated :slight_smile:

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