Overview and Edit mode won't render my desktop, windows, or widgets

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Hi all!

I have this odd bug where kwin refuses to render my desktop or windows in any context, here’s a video of me showing the behavior, I can’t seem to screenshot in these views.

System Information

Component Details
Operating System Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version 6.4.4
KDE Frameworks 6.17.0
Qt Version 6.9.2
Kernel 6.16.5-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform Wayland
CPU 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core Processor
Memory 32 GiB RAM (31.3 GiB usable)
GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Journal

Sep 07 20:59:23 tucker kernel: 
Sep 07 20:59:23 tucker kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.GPP2.PTXH.RHUB.PO10._PLD due to previous error (AE_AML_UNINITIALIZED_ELEMENT) (20250404/psparse-529)
Sep 07 20:59:23 tucker kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.GPP2.PTXH.RHUB.POT9._PLD due to previous error (AE_AML_UNINITIALIZED_ELEMENT) (20250404/psparse-529)
Sep 07 20:59:28 tucker kernel: audit: kauditd hold queue overflow
Sep 07 20:59:29 tucker kernel: audit: kauditd hold queue overflow
Sep 07 20:59:37 tucker kernel: audit: kauditd hold queue overflow
Sep 07 20:59:39 tucker kernel: audit: kauditd hold queue overflow
Sep 07 20:59:49 tucker kernel: audit: kauditd hold queue overflow
Sep 07 20:59:57 tucker kernel: audit: kauditd hold queue overflow
Sep 07 20:59:59 tucker kernel: audit: kauditd hold queue overflow
Sep 07 21:00:03 tucker kernel: audit: kauditd hold queue overflow
Sep 07 21:00:10 tucker bluetoothd[987]: profiles/input/device.c:control_connect_cb() connect to 6C:93:08:67:33:80: Host is down (112)
Sep 07 21:00:10 tucker kernel: audit: kauditd hold queue overflow
Sep 07 21:00:10 tucker kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Invalid exception type 03
Sep 07 21:00:13 tucker kernel: audit: kauditd hold queue overflow
Sep 07 21:00:16 tucker kernel: audit: kauditd hold queue overflow
Sep 07 21:00:43 tucker kernel: audit: kauditd hold queue overflow
Sep 07 21:10:17 tucker kernel: audit: kauditd hold queue overflow
Sep 07 21:11:02 tucker kernel: audit: kauditd hold queue overflow
Sep 07 21:14:10 tucker kernel: audit: kauditd hold queue overflow
Sep 07 21:14:15 tucker kernel: audit: kauditd hold queue overflow
Sep 07 21:14:20 tucker kernel: audit: kauditd hold queue overflow
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Things I’ve tried

  1. Resetting theme to a default like Breeze Dark
  2. Updating all packages
  3. Creating a new user to see if behavior persists (this actually fixes the issue, but I would really prefer not migrating if this is a issue seen before)

Any idea what might be causing this behavior? Thanks for any and all suggestions.

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I was able to resolve the issue, thankfully.

After looking at it a couple of times, you can tell it’s not that the desktop isn’t being rendered, it’s being covered by some grey block.

I’m not sure if this what was causing it, but there was some RSS feed plasmoid I was trying out, it had config info in ~/.config/plasmawindowedrc.

After emptying the file, my task switcher and edit mode work properly. :partying_face: