Visual bug when snapping some windows

Hello! It seems that while snapping some windows (e.g. Emacs or Timeshift) to an edge of the screen, a small gap followed by a thin line appears where the window's border should be. This appears to only affect the Sweet theme. Does anyone have the same issue? If it's a Sweet bug, why does it happen only on some windows?

Edit: Tried turning off window borders from theme settings to no avail.


Please open issue.

Or on KDE, IDK :slight_smile: but IIRC there are open ~ 30,000 issues.

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Will do. But can you reproduce it?

Nope, I changed the theme, icons and so on. I am not the pink and apple lover, so I changed most to blue :slight_smile: :wink:

Oops, I use KDE only for playing around, my basic workflow is on i3wm

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(I personally kept Sweet but changed wallpapers + papirus icon theme cause there was too much purple/orange). I'll report to Sweet then.

You might want to try this as well.

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Thanks, no luck unfortunately.

did yours just start to do this a few days ago? thats about when mine started..

I'm not sure when it started, I don't snap windows very often. Also, did you reboot after selecting the smoothest animations (cause I didn't)? Weird that the compositor options have an effect on this...

Edit: Forgot to mention, changing any of those options, redraws the desktop, temporarily solving the issue. Snap the window again and the problem persists (on my case at least).

2021-06-22_16-12

so mine is still doing it also but it just seems to happen when i close a window and the existing one moves to fill in its place,

so i have the same issue still going on

Setting XRender as a rendering backend solves the issue for me, but now blur does not work. Confirmed with other themes as well, so it's a KDE issue. Good luck getting it fixed anytime soon.

Edit #1: Seems it's a GTK thing; Qt works fine. So, for example, most KDE applications are unaffected, whereas Emacs, Timeshift, Transmission-gtk etc have the issue.

i have my setting to OpenGL 2.0, i cant remember now why i switched from 3.1 to 2.0 now, i think i had an issue with LatteDock, and switching fixed that issue for me then around a month later this has,, at least im not the only one so im sure the bug will be addressed eventually, not the end of the world :joy:

Try a kwin restart as a simple workaround (or restart plasma). .

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... that worked. But why? So all I got to do is schedule a kwin restart when I log in?

kwin_x11 --replace & disown

Edit: The issue reappeared a few moments later. Does anyone now if this bug has been reported?

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bugs.kde.org
check it out and see if any have been reported,,

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Not likely, I don't see anything. There are a lot of bugs regarding snapping.

What are your theme settings for GNOME/GTK in KDE Settings Manager?

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The default ones. I'm starting to believe it's a GTK thing. For example, transmission-qt doesn't have the issue, while transmission-gtk has it. And the issue has to do with the window decorations, not the theme in gereral.

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The issue was fixed with kwin 5.23.0-1 (or maybe it was kde-gtk-config 5.23.0-1).

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