Re: Ghost Windows?

On 8/4/26 3:29 AM, Masaru Nomiya wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In the Message;
>
>    Subject    : Ghost Windows?
>    Message-ID : <[email protected]>
>    Date & Time: Mon, 3 Aug 2026 16:58:24 -0700
>
> [LW] == Lew Wolfgang <[email protected]> has written:
>
> LW>  Hi Folks,
>
> LW>  I've got a user who's running TumbleWeed on his own HP laptop and is
> LW>  having problems with Ghosts, as he describes it.   He's using Plasma6
> LW>  with X11 on an Intel Raptorlake GPU.
>
> LW>  Basically, when he minimizes a window an unresponsive "ghost" of that
> LW>  window is left on the desktop.  It doesn't respond to cursor clicks or
> LW>  keystrokes.
> [...]
>
> Could this be a known issue with the combination of a KDE Plasma 6 X11
> session and an Intel GPU?
>
> If so, wouldn't a temporary workaround be to restart the window
> manager using Alt+F2+r?
>
> If that doesn't resolve the issue, your user will need to disable the
> fade effect -- though this might be an incentive to switch to Wayland
> ...... (_ _?

My user reports that Alt+Shift+F12 clears the ghosts!  I think that implies
a KWin scene-graph/render-list bug?  I'll suggest trying Wayland, but I
have a feeling that its Window-pile-on feature is worse than random
ghosts.

Regards,
Lew