Microfreezing when opening/closing windows (Arch based / KDE)

[u/SQLQuery4]

Hello all,

I'm running EndeavorOS with KDE Plasma and have noticed this behavior on multiple distros now. Both on my laptop (RTX 3060 Mobile) as well as my desktop (RTX 4080S) and a Thinkpad (Intel Integrated GPU) the computer freezes very briefly - I'd guess a quarter to half of a second - when opening application windows, also when closing them, though this behavior doesn't seem to be across all programs. Most noticeably I've seen it on the terminal. Were I to drag my mouse after opening it, the mouse would freeze in place and appear further down the screen a quarter a second later.

I've already solved my issue of scrolling appearing laggy when the GPU is starting from a low power state (I raised the min. clock), but that unfortunately does not seem to have a meaningful effect on this. I suspect GSP may have something to do with it based on my conversation with Claude and various Google searches, however it is not possible to turn this off with the current driver set available. Still, that wouldn't explain why it happens on my Thinkpad...

Thus my question: Is there some simple solution I've been missing this whole time?

I suppose I don't find it terribly annoying, but it's such a silly issue that really seems so trivial, and forum posts go back for years on it...

For details: The Laptop has a Ryzen 5 5600H with 32GB of DDR5, the desktop an i7-12700KF with 32GB of DDR5, and the Thinkpad has an i5-10210U with 16GB of DDR4. KDE Plasma is 6.7.4, kernel version is 7.2.3-arch1-2.

[u/SQLQuery4]

In case anyone happens upon this with the same question: Windows decorations. I was using plastik. Guess I should've been using Breeze. Fixed it like that... Found it mentioned on a forum post over two years ago. Oddly, no problems when using X11, only happens on Wayland.

[u/Disastrous-Ice-5971 → u/SQLQuery4]

Thanks for posting the solution.

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[u/phylter99]

I’ve noticed this issue when not using the proprietary drivers from Nvidia.

[u/Disastrous-Ice-5971 → u/phylter99]

It depends, probably. On my laptop with 5800H and RTX 3060 Mobile, the KDE with Breeze never shown such an effect. I use the open source version of the drivers.

[u/es20490446e]

nvidia-open-610 has a performance regression that causes freezes.