[kwin] [Bug 517961] Background content behind some fullscreened apps flashes briefly and randomly around the edges when sharing a monitor via OBS "Screen Capture (PipeWire)" on KDE Plasma Wayland

2026-08-02 Thread Marvin1099
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=517961

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--- Comment #4 from Marvin1099  ---
Can confirm on KWin 6.7.3 (NVIDIA), frequency scales with scene blending work

Same flicker: windows/background briefly flash through the desktop in OBS
"Screen Capture (PipeWire)", visible in the recording. Arch/Garuda on fully
up-to-date packages: KWin 6.7.3, NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti (driver 610.43.03), kernel
7.1.5-zen, OBS 32.1.2, PipeWire 1.6.8.

env | grep -E 'KWIN|NV' on my system:
INVOCATION_ID=bce87503e50441ee996306f34f9ebcaa
KWIN_DRM_NO_DIRECT_SCANOUT=1
NVCC_CCBIN=/usr/bin/g++-15
KWIN_DRM_NO_DIRECT_SCANOUT=1 I set manually and it has no effect on the
flicker; NVCC_CCBIN is just the CUDA compiler path, unrelated to KWin.

Other observations:
- On-screen display is clean; corruption only visible in the capture.
- No kwin_screencast/fence errors in the journal at blink time.

Frequency scales with how much alpha-blending KWin has to do:
- Blur + Better Blur effects on → constant blinking
- Blur/Better Blur disabled → rare
- Plus window transparency disabled → rarer still

Remaining blinks are usually triggered by clicking/focusing another window or
switching windows.

Notes:
- Whole-monitor and whole-screen rectangular region capture both flicker (this
differs from the original report, where region capture was clean, at least for
me).
- Window capture never flickers.
- Possibly related reports that are now closed: 517961 (closed as fixed) and
513182 (closed as duplicate of 511527). My residual flicker persists on 6.7.3.

Happy to test anything, including extra debug logging.

AI says (may be useful may not be):
The scaling with blur/translucency plus the stacking-change trigger strongly
suggests the output screencast's re-render leaves unwritten regions on NVIDIA's
explicit-sync path (the same path that needed the "Implicit sync is broken on
Nvidia" workaround).

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[kwin] [Bug 517961] Background content behind some fullscreened apps flashes briefly and randomly around the edges when sharing a monitor via OBS "Screen Capture (PipeWire)" on KDE Plasma Wayland

2026-05-13 Thread ProudlyTM
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=517961

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--- Comment #3 from ProudlyTM  ---
(In reply to Zamundaaa from comment #2)
> I can't replicate this on AMD or Nvidia, with either KWin 6.6.3 or git
> master.
> 
> > I have also previously seen PipeWire/OBS debug output spamming errors that 
> > the buffer contains corrupted data while OBS is running and I'm moving the 
> > mouse around
> That debug message is nonsensical, the buffer being "corrupted" just means
> the frame only contains a cursor update.
> 
> Do you have any Nvidia or KWin specific environment variables set?

Nothing specific on my side. Anyways, I think the issue got resolved when I
updated to KDE Plasma 6.6.4, because I haven't had problems since, so I will go
ahead and close the bug report.

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[kwin] [Bug 517961] Background content behind some fullscreened apps flashes briefly and randomly around the edges when sharing a monitor via OBS "Screen Capture (PipeWire)" on KDE Plasma Wayland

2026-05-13 Thread Zamundaaa
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=517961

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--- Comment #2 from Zamundaaa  ---
I can't replicate this on AMD or Nvidia, with either KWin 6.6.3 or git master.

> I have also previously seen PipeWire/OBS debug output spamming errors that 
> the buffer contains corrupted data while OBS is running and I'm moving the 
> mouse around
That debug message is nonsensical, the buffer being "corrupted" just means the
frame only contains a cursor update.

Do you have any Nvidia or KWin specific environment variables set?

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[kwin] [Bug 517961] Background content behind some fullscreened apps flashes briefly and randomly around the edges when sharing a monitor via OBS "Screen Capture (PipeWire)" on KDE Plasma Wayland

2026-04-01 Thread bugzilla_noreply
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=517961

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--- Comment #1 from [email protected] ---
This also happens to me on Nobara Linux using KDE Plasma + Wayland, although I
used Flatseal to make OBS use X11 rather than Wayland so my keyboard shortcuts
would work. I believe the bug began early to mid January, based on looking at
my old recordings.

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