Hi Naman,
Thanks for your reply,
I did not see that thread cause unfortunately the actual explaining of the problem it's an hard grammar thing to look for online (sorry!)
Anyhow, I now applied the "force smoothest animations" in the KDE compositor settings and it seems to have done the trick!
Thanks so much!
Here is the output of inxi:
╰─λ inxi -Faz
System: Kernel: 5.12.10-zen1-1-zen x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
root=UUID=b0b57f66-57d0-4b8f-ab2e-f39ac7b26789 rw rootflags=subvol=@ quiet splash
rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0 systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1
loglevel=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.0 tk: Qt 5.15.2 info: latte-dock wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine: Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 20N2CTO1WW v: ThinkPad T490 serial: <filter>
Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: LENOVO model: 20N2CTO1WW v: 0B98417 WIN serial: <filter> UEFI-[Legacy]: LENOVO
v: N2IET93W (1.71 ) date: 11/10/2020
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 40.8 Wh (88.9%) condition: 45.9/50.5 Wh (90.9%) volts: 12.3
min: 11.5 model: SMP 02DL008 type: Li-poly serial: <filter> status: Discharging
cycles: 415
CPU: Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-8265U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake
note: check family: 6 model-id: 8E (142) stepping: C (12) microcode: EA cache:
L2: 6 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 28800
Speed: 2631 MHz min/max: 400/3900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2631 2: 797 3: 703
4: 2010 5: 723 6: 800 7: 751 8: 1146
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
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: Enhanced IBRS, IBPB: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: TSX disabled
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics: Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3ea0 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Chicony Integrated Camera (1280x720@30) type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus-ID: 1-8:3 chip-ID: 04f2:b604 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: loaded: intel
unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2")
s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
Monitor-1: eDP1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 157 size: 310x170mm (12.2x6.7")
diag: 354mm (13.9")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620 (WHL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.1.2
direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl
bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:9dc8 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.12.10-zen1-1-zen running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.30 running: no
Network: Device-1: Intel Cannon Point-LP CNVi [Wireless-AC] driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
port: 3000 bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:9df0 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: Lenovo driver: e1000e v: kernel port: efa0
bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15be class-ID: 0200
IF: enp0s31f6 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 217.54 GiB (91.2%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Toshiba model: N/A size: 238.47 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 rotation: SSD
serial: <filter> rev: 5108AGLA scheme: MBR
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 238.47 GiB size: 238.47 GiB (100.00%) used: 213.13 GiB (89.4%)
fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
ID-2: /home raw-size: 238.47 GiB size: 238.47 GiB (100.00%) used: 213.13 GiB (89.4%)
fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
ID-3: /var/log raw-size: 238.47 GiB size: 238.47 GiB (100.00%)
used: 213.13 GiB (89.4%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
ID-4: /var/tmp raw-size: 238.47 GiB size: 238.47 GiB (100.00%)
used: 213.13 GiB (89.4%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
Swap: Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 75 (default 100)
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 1.86 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767
dev: /dev/zram0
ID-2: swap-2 type: zram size: 1.86 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767
dev: /dev/zram1
ID-3: swap-3 type: zram size: 1.86 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767
dev: /dev/zram2
ID-4: swap-4 type: zram size: 1.86 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767
dev: /dev/zram3
ID-5: swap-5 type: zram size: 1.86 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767
dev: /dev/zram4
ID-6: swap-6 type: zram size: 1.86 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767
dev: /dev/zram5
ID-7: swap-7 type: zram size: 1.86 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767
dev: /dev/zram6
ID-8: swap-8 type: zram size: 1.86 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 32767
dev: /dev/zram7
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 46.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2868
Info: Processes: 348 Uptime: 39m wakeups: 5 Memory: 14.86 GiB used: 7.04 GiB (47.4%)
Init: systemd v: 248 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 12.0.0 Packages:
apt: 0 pacman: 1599 lib: 435 Shell: fish v: 3.2.2 running-in: alacritty inxi: 3.3.04