Good day. I updated to KDE 6.7 and got low fps in any Steam games. Also now KDE toolbars have blur effects, but there is no option to set blurriness level in Desktop Effects option (although I have it on another laptop). Also Spectacle does not start at all (even when I try to start it via console. Not even any error appears), so I can not make any screenshots. Same problems for 6.7.1.
I am using integrated video acceleration (Intel Core i5-3230M).
All problems disappear, if I downgrade to 6.6.5 version.
Thats what packages I downgrade may be it will help:
So I installed another DE (Sway) and FPS is ok now. On KDE new bug, can not even logout, the window just does not appear.
Want to try to reset KDE to default settings. What folders and files do I need to delete to revert KDE like after fresh installation?
Go to your .config folder (/home/your-user/.config)
Create a folder elsewhere (we will use it as a backup), for example in /home/your-user/config-backup/.
Search through the .config folder and copy the files of the apps you want to keep configuration (browsers, games, apps) of and copy them to the backup folder you created. NOTE: you don’t need to copy the configs of apps you uninstalled and don’t want to keep the configs of.
Now you delete all the contents of the .config folder. (That’s why we have backed up the important configs)
Copy back the configs from the backup folder to the now empty .config
You’re done.
I prefer doing it this way because KDE doesn’t have a central directory to place things on, it instead places the configs all in different places (so you may see that there’s a KDE folder, an akonadi folder and a lot of scattered “rc” files of KDE apps). So it’s faster to backup the configs you want and just delete everything else.
Ok, resetting KDE to default settings did not help.
I noticed that, if I use KDE wayland, it uses llvm, but if I use KDE X-11, it uses Intel. Any way to diagnose why its happening like that?
Xorg:
name of display: :0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
Vendor: Intel (0x8086)
Device: Mesa Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2) (0x166)
Version: 26.1.3
Accelerated: yes
Video memory: 1536MB
Unified memory: yes
Preferred profile: core (0x1)
Max core profile version: 4.2
Max compat profile version: 4.2
Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.0
OpenGL vendor string: Intel
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.2 (Core Profile) Mesa 26.1.3-arch1.2
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.20
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL version string: 4.2 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 26.1.3-arch1.2
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.20
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: compatibility profile
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.0 Mesa 26.1.3-arch1.2
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.00
Wayland:
name of display: :1
display: :1 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
Vendor: Mesa (0xffffffff)
Device: llvmpipe (LLVM 22.1.6, 256 bits) (0xffffffff)
Version: 26.1.3
Accelerated: no
Video memory: 7825MB
Unified memory: yes
Preferred profile: core (0x1)
Max core profile version: 4.6
Max compat profile version: 4.6
Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.2
Memory info (GL_ATI_meminfo):
VBO free memory - total: 0 MB, largest block: 0 MB
VBO free aux. memory - total: 6506 MB, largest block: 6506 MB
Texture free memory - total: 0 MB, largest block: 0 MB
Texture free aux. memory - total: 6506 MB, largest block: 6506 MB
Renderbuffer free memory - total: 0 MB, largest block: 0 MB
Renderbuffer free aux. memory - total: 6506 MB, largest block: 6506 MB
Memory info (GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info):
Dedicated video memory: 0 MB
Total available memory: 7825 MB
Currently available dedicated video memory: 0 MB
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa
OpenGL renderer string: llvmpipe (LLVM 22.1.6, 256 bits)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 26.1.3-arch1.2
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.60
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 26.1.3-arch1.2
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.60
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: compatibility profile
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 26.1.3-arch1.2
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20
If we figure out if Wayland works well with the Integrated Graphics, Budgie could be reccomended as it uses a Wayland session. But probably the processor won’t work well with Wayland and will need to use XFCE or others.
Not sure if it applies, but I’m finding degraded game performance if I’ve been watching a few videos first. When I reboot and start Steam right away, it’s much better.
