Task switcher animation changed

Issues & Assistance
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Hello.

To be honest, I'm new so my belief can be wrong, but I think it's just animation and it don't need output. Although walk through now looks like simple switch through (the simple alternative animation) if you know what I mean. In case I can provide some logs I'm not aware about, I will provide them as you instruct me

What I tried to solve issues?

  • it happened after some installations, like lollypop, mpv, flatpak, so I tried removing them by sudo pacman -R packageName. But no help. I installed them again leaving flatpak alone as I saw flatpak is considered unsupported.
  • Restoration of old snapshots.

What I think I should possibly try?

  • Reinstalling n configuring plasma kde, sadly I'm still clueless about it, specially reconfiguration

System info:
Laptop: Acer Nitro 5 AN515-44 (2021), 512gb ssd, 8gb ram ddr4
Graphics: GTX 1650, 4gb
Os: Multiboot - Win 11 21H2, Garuda Dr4gonized (kept up to date, installed 3 days ago, my 1st ever linux)

If details given here insufficient, please guide me, I will get you required details

Edit: I just found that inxi is a command, I will post out results soon as am not on laptop at moment. Sorry for inconvenience

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I am not sure exactly what you are referring to but a couple of the task switching animations were removed from the latest version of plasma by the kde developers. If you were using one of those that could explain the change.

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Ohh
Thanks for info
I will look into it and respond soon

Btw I am referring to the default one when you fresh install garuda (I mean I did 3 days ago, and that was the animation I saw, so I call it default), where active tasks scroll with window to be selected is flat while rest are tilted

Sorry for a blurry image, I clicked that in bit of hurry earlier.

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CMD: inxi -Faz

OUTPUT:

System:    Kernel: 5.14.14-zen1-1-zen x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen root=UUID=4e4f1661-daaa-48b5-83ea-ed183be4bc11
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 5.23.2 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: Acer product: Nitro AN515-44 v: V1.04 serial: <filter>
Mobo: RO model: Stonic_RNS v: V1.04 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: 1.04 date: 02/04/2021
Battery:   ID-1: BAT1 charge: 57.9 Wh (100.0%) condition: 57.9/57.5 Wh (100.7%) volts: 17.6 min: 15.4
model: LGC AP18E8M type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full
CPU:       Info: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 4600H with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2
family: 17 (23) model-id: 60 (96) stepping: 1 microcode: 8600103 cache: L2: 3 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 71862
Speed: 2711 MHz min/max: 1400/3000 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2711 2: 3090
3: 1540 4: 1397 5: 1397 6: 1396 7: 1396 8: 2244 9: 2369 10: 1393 11: 2074 12: 1398
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
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: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA TU117M vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: nvidia v: 470.74
alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1f99 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: AMD Renoir vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 05:00.0
chip-ID: 1002:1636 class-ID: 0300
Device-3: Chicony HD User Facing type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-3:2 chip-ID: 04f2:b64f
class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: loaded: modesetting,nvidia
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: eDP-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 size: 344x193mm (13.5x7.6") diag: 394mm (15.5")
OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.42.0 5.14.14-zen1-1-zen LLVM 12.0.1) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.4
direct render: Yes
Audio:     Device-1: NVIDIA driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10fa
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: N/A alternate: snd_pci_acp3x, snd_rn_pci_acp3x bus-ID: 05:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2
class-ID: 0480
Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 05:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.14.14-zen1-1-zen running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.39 running: yes
Network:   Device-1: Realtek vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 2000
bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:2600 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2723
class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp4s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth: Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-4:2 chip-ID: 8087:0029
class-ID: e001
Report: bt-adapter ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: down bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block:
hardware: no software: no address: <filter>
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 11.72 GiB (2.5%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital model: PC SN530 SDBPNPZ-512G-1014
size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD
serial: <filter> rev: 21103900 temp: 45.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 149 GiB size: 149 GiB (100.00%) used: 11.69 GiB (7.8%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6 maj-min: 259:6
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 1 GiB size: 1021 MiB (99.61%) used: 27.9 MiB (2.7%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4
ID-3: /home raw-size: 149 GiB size: 149 GiB (100.00%) used: 11.69 GiB (7.8%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6 maj-min: 259:6
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 149 GiB size: 149 GiB (100.00%) used: 11.69 GiB (7.8%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6 maj-min: 259:6
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 149 GiB size: 149 GiB (100.00%) used: 11.69 GiB (7.8%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6 maj-min: 259:6
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 7.14 GiB used: 512 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 49.8 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 40.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:      Processes: 343 Uptime: 4m wakeups: 1 Memory: 7.14 GiB used: 2.74 GiB (38.3%) Init: systemd
v: 249 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 12.0.1 Packages: pacman: 1283 lib: 307
Shell: fish v: 3.3.1 default: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.08
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Still not clear to me what the problem is.
Anyway, you could give a look at Settings -> Window Management -> Task switcher, especially the visualization drop-down field, if you find any settings that it's worth trying changing.
For animation problems in general, not related only to the task switcher, you could give a look at the "compositor".
Sometimes when you open its settings there's a message saying that it crashed and offering to reset it. Also there you'll find settings to play with. Take notes of what you change...

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I tried both

  1. I tried switching animations
    And actually found that many are just not usable. I mean they all showing simple thumbnail animation

  2. No crash on compositer. No reset, defaults.

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I could be wrong but it looks like you do not have your graphics installed correctly?

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Possible
I just let garuda do everything
Any way to check it out?

But to be noted
"It changed" rather than not working from start
I guess I should delete whole partition of garuda os and reinstall

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Is it actually safe?

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Could it be that the task switcher animation you remember was the initial one (I mean, the one when you installed, before the first full update) ?
In that case, maybe this could be as @dalto suggested, several animations were removed in the recent plasma upgrade (and there's nothing we can do about it).

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Ic
Well then
I guess I will just use thumbnail grid

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You can also push button "Get New Task Switchers" and search if there's anything you like...

PS: Welcome!

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Thanks
I guess I will give that a shot

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Final update
I did try fresh install again
and after full update
KDE removed "Cover Switch" Task Switcher theme, i.e. so called default task switcher theme in garuda.

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