Before I try to create an actual KDE bug report, I thought I’d ask here and see if anyone else is seeing this. After waking from sleep, my desktop background will start displaying artifacts. They’re about the size of fleas, will take on the color of whatever I display above them, remain in place once they show up, new ones develop after every sleep/wake cycle and actually show up in screenshots. I’m not sure that it’s a KDE problem, but it started with the Bazzite v 44.20260820 (KDE Desktop w/ Wayland) release which uses KDE Plasma Version 6.7.4.
I created a Bazzite bug report on this about 3 weeks ago:
opened 08:03PM - 23 Aug 26 UTC
### Describe the bug
This is a weird one. With Bazzite v44.20260820, I'm now g… etting small artifacts appearing in my Desktop background image after a while. On a fresh boot, the image is fine. After a few Sleep/Wake cycles, small (maybe the size of a flea) "holes" will appear in various locations. These "holes" tend to fill with whatever color window is opened above them and tend to change color as different colors are placed on them. For instance, I created some screenshots of a red screen and a black screen. Opening them fullscreen one at a time over the desktop tends to change the "holes" to those colors. Once the "holes" are present, they don't go away or move until a reboot. Rebooting will clear them for a Sleep/Wake cycle or two, then new ones in different locations will appear.
### What did you expect to happen?
I expect the background image to display correctly.
### Session Logs
```shell
System Information: https://paste.centos.org/view/cc1d5dde
Logs This Boot: https://paste.centos.org/view/0e0befed
Logs Last Boot: https://paste.centos.org/view/1a8d6d56
```
### Hardware
Operating System: Bazzite 44
KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.29.0
Qt Version: 6.11.1
Kernel Version: 7.2.0-ogc4.1.fc44.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core Processor
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.5 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Product Name: B550 VISION D-P
System Version: -CF
### Extra information or context
```
pm-ostree status -v
State: idle
AutomaticUpdates: disabled
Deployments:
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite:stable (index: 0)
Digest: sha256:5d88ae9a6454ab3c13edf7b722d96d0e1affc44b19386d47803f6417b56dc05c
Version: 44.20260820 (2026-08-20T20:11:14Z)
Commit: 3cbf3605fc41ac01919459771ffaf5359276a9625fbbb58fda0799b172a4eb1a
Staged: no
StateRoot: default
ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite:stable (index: 1)
Digest: sha256:fbd9a04cf9fa5166b4b4fffa1efbd87433c8bc94027182a338f0b7c0b8acde82
Version: 44.20260802 (2026-08-02T04:03:42Z)
Commit: 52b2fab324bb47f13870883564117e7d92c94e0be2a88ad9bc2572ab41345cd0
StateRoot: default
```
Because of the Sleep/Wake cycle, this might be related to:
https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/issues/5569
And, here’s part of a screenshot from that report showing what I’m seeing (artifacts at upper-right and lower-left):
Some system information from the time it started:
Operating System: Bazzite 44KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.4KDE Frameworks Version: 6.29.0Qt Version: 6.11.1Kernel Version: 7.2.0-ogc4.1.fc44.x86_64 (64-bit)Graphics Platform: WaylandProcessors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core ProcessorMemory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.5 GiB usable)Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XTManufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.Product Name: B550 VISION D-PSystem Version: -CF
I have to apologize, too. I didn’t pay enough attention to the comments in my Bazzite issue. There’s already a bug filed on this:
I’ve responded there.
