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Gorgeous view!
I had to use both since I don’t own a nice camera or lenses. I think exposure time was around 6 seconds. If you darken it by 2EV, it should be close to how it looked to the naked eye
Indeed it looks like a bug. I finally found a solution, though. Check the main post edit for details.
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.
Tasksel seems to be correctly set,
~$ tasksel --list-tasks
i desktop Debian desktop environment
u gnome-desktop GNOME
u xfce-desktop Xfce
u gnome-flashback-desktop GNOME Flashback
i kde-desktop KDE Plasma
u cinnamon-desktop Cinnamon
u mate-desktop MATE
u lxde-desktop LXDE
u lxqt-desktop LXQt
u web-server web server
u ssh-server SSH server
i laptop laptop
I tried apt reinstall kde-full
, but unfortunately nothing changed.
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.
Yeah, I tried installing kde-full but it didn’t solve my problem.
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.
Edit: the new user also presents the same problem. Actually, it makes sense, since SDDM is affected as well (I should have mentioned that before).
Haha, yes, I’m glad they chose not to!