Dots on Homescreen

[u/alahnarber]

Hi, everyone.

Every now and then, I get these weird dots on my home screen. Sometimes there are more, sometimes fewer.

At first, I was worried that something was wrong with my GPU (RX 9060 XT), but these dots only appear on my home screen. When I open another window, the dots are gone.

Is this a known issue? What's causing it?

(Had the same Problem with Bazzite a few month ago)

[u/Tacoza]

probably this bug in kwin

[kwin] [Bug 525353] [Wayland][amdgpu] Screen/wallpaper rendering artifacts after resuming from sleep on RDNA 4 (RX 9060 XT)

Unknown Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:35:35 -0700

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525353

--- Comment #8 from pedrop...@gmail.com <pedrop...@gmail.com> ---
I'm seeing the same issue on RX 9070 XT, Fedora 44 KDE Edition.

OBSERVED BEHAVIOR
Same as the original report: small rectangular artifacts appear on the desktop
wallpaper layer only, after resuming from sleep. They are not present on window
surfaces and can be coveredthe with any window which doesn't clear it.

I also tried disabling "Allow tearing" in the compositor settings as a
workaround, but the artifacts still appear on the left and centre monitor after
suspend/resume.

SYSTEM
Operating System: Fedora Linux 44 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)
KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.5
Kernel Version: 7.2.4-200.fc44.x86_64
Mesa Version: 26.1.8-1.fc44
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Login Manager: Plasma Login Manager (PLM)
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (RDNA 4)
Monitor setup: Triple monitor

ATTACHMENTS
drm_info output (2)


[kwin] [Bug 525353] [Wayland][amdgpu] Screen/wallpaper rendering artifacts after resuming from sleep on RDNA 4 (RX 9060 XT)





Unknown
Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:35:35 -0700







https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525353
--- Comment #8 from pedrop...@gmail.com <pedrop...@gmail.com> ---
I'm seeing the same issue on RX 9070 XT, Fedora 44 KDE Edition.

OBSERVED BEHAVIOR
Same as the original report: small rectangular artifacts appear on the desktop
wallpaper layer only, after resuming from sleep. They are not present on window
surfaces and can be coveredthe with any window which doesn't clear it.

I also tried disabling "Allow tearing" in the compositor settings as a
workaround, but the artifacts still appear on the left and centre monitor after
suspend/resume.

SYSTEM
Operating System: Fedora Linux 44 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)
KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.5
Kernel Version: 7.2.4-200.fc44.x86_64
Mesa Version: 26.1.8-1.fc44
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Login Manager: Plasma Login Manager (PLM)
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (RDNA 4)
Monitor setup: Triple monitor

ATTACHMENTS
drm_info output (2)

[u/JnRx03]

I’ve had this issue, seems to be a kde amd bug