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You are right, I should have made this clear. I am not on Nvidia, I am using an old Thinkpad on Intel Haswell.
I’m glad to know my problem isn’t completely new. I’ll look into it further online. If you ever find a link to a report of a similar issue, I would be happy to see!
Edit: I found this link, the issue reported appears to be very similar to what I’m seeing here https://libreddit.tux.pizza/r/kde/comments/jhqbnz/kde_plasma_rendering_problem_black_squares/
Edit 2: I finally solved my problem! It was indeed an old problem already reported somewhere.
I agree with that. I suspect you might be right. SDDM (Breeze) is also weird with transparency. However, I just installed materia-kde
but unfortunately the problem persisted (screenshot attached). Before that, I ran apt purge kde* plasma* libkf*
and apt install kde-full
. That too didn’t solve my problem.
If I am not mistaken, I used a Debian KDE live image from the official repository then switched the mirrors from Bookworm to Sid. The system went months without a single issue, then this happen.
Your suggestion will actually be my solution of choice if everything else fails: reinstall / and import relevant files from a backup that I already have.
Thanks for the tip! However, I tried apt reinstall kde-full
and apt --fix-broken install
, but no packages were installed and (unsurprisingly) the problem still persists.
Sadly I am not using BTRFS for my root directory on this specific system. If I end up deciding to reinstall, I will definitely go back to BTRFS to avoid such problems.
Debian actually has a KDE group named kde-full. I reinstalled it but the issue persists, which was honestly surprising to me.
~$ sudo apt install kde-full
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
kde-full is already the newest version (5:147).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 87 not upgraded.
The new user idea was really clever, thanks for the suggestion! I will try that now and see.
I’m impressed you shot this on a Ricoh GR. Looks fantastic!