Picom shadows don't work with linux-zen, work with linux

General system Kernel & Hardware
#1

I am using picom and have window shadows enabled. This worked perfectly up until around kernel 5.8.3, where shadows don’t work any more when running linux-zen. Transparency blurring still works, compositing still works, it’s just the shadows.

Tried with linux=5.8.5 and shadows work, reboot into linux-zen=5.8.5 and no shadows.

This happens with both my X230 (Intel, modesetting) and GL702ZC (AMD, amdgpu) so it doesn’t look hardware-related, and the picom.conf file is the same on both and hasn’t changed since it worked last.

Edit:

OK, so it doesn’t work (now?) with either 5.8.5 kernel on GL702ZC. Confused.

Edit:

Now it’s working with both on my X230. I haven’t made any changes.

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#2

Interesting.

Don’t you love when things inexplicably stop working, then work again? :joy:

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#3

Yes.

Wait, the other thing.

No.

:rofl:

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