Some of my KDE apps aren't working properly

[Paul_Brown]

I am seeing something similar on Falkon, GhostWriter and KMail.

A couple of questions:

• Are you on Plasma 6.3.4?

• Is the screenshot from Wayland? What do you see if you open the glitchy apps in X11?

For the record, here is my post about this issue:

Plasma 6.3.4 may have broken text rendering (or something else) on my system

Something weird has happened in my Plasma set up: some panes in windows that render text (panes where you can edit text are NOT affected) behave bizarrely, not displaying the text they are supposed to render, and instead displaying glitches—see below. This affects both X11 and Wayland and I have seen this behaviour in KMail, Ghostwriter and Falkon so far. Here are some photos and screenshots of the issue: X11 [Broken_Ghostwriter_X11] [Broken_Kmail_X11] Wayland [PXL_20250406_092919700_1500] …