I’d like to use KDE Plasma with X11 rather than Wayland to diagnose some issues. However, X11 is basically unusable.
Issues include:
- Lack of desktop wallpaper or splash screen
- Application icons in panel keep flickering in size, making it difficult to click on a specific icon (even after disabling scaling)
- Lots of flickering in general with applications, e.g. when launching system settings, the application is unresponsive, with flickering occurring at the search bar
- Clock (with seconds) and virtual desktop indicator in the panel are frozen
- After clicking on “log out”, there is no proper log out, with only the cursor (still able to move)
Here are the XDG variables when logging into X11:
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/home/kyanc/.config/kdedefaults:/etc/xdg
XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session1
XDG_MENU_PREFIX=plasma-
XDG_SEAT=seat0
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=KDE
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE
XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user
XDG_VTNR=2
XDG_SESSION_ID=2
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/home/kyanc/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/shareand I’ve uploaded the auto-generated /etc/x11/xorg.conf at pastebin .com/yZhJ6m3N. I’ve uploaded a journalctl boot log (where I only booted into Plasma X11 once before shutting down) to pastebin .com/7w5b6hqf.
I’m using the standard Arch Linux kernel and up-to-date xorg and plasma packages, with the graphics kernel driver being i915. This is running on a Framework 13 with an Intel 1340P processor.
Hope someone could give some advice on how this could be fixed. If I’ve missed something do let me know.