After upgrading f39 to f40 a white rectangle in the top left corner of the desktop appers (xwaylandvideobridge)

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It looks like this might be the bug to follow, in hopes of it getting picked up by someone who can fix it:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485604

So please chime in there or add yourself to the CC list, thanks.

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ā€¦ thx Youri for crosslinking ā€¦

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ā€¦ the problem still exists unchanged. dnf list xwaylandvideobridge shows an unchanged version number (xwaylandvideobridge.x86_64, 0.4.0-5.fc40, updates) and the white rectangle still appearsā€¦

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Under Fedora 41 the xwaylandvideobridge rpm seems to have received an update from version 0.4.0-5.fc40 to version 0.4.0-6.fc41. Iā€™m very curious to see whether this solved the problem.

However: a look at the ChangeLog doesnā€™t bode wellā€¦ the changes from version 0.4.0-5.fc40 to version 0.4.0-6.fc41 are documented there as:

ā€¦ nothing more, thatā€™s the whole increment ā€¦

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As expected, the problem persists even after the update from Fedora 40 to 41. This shows once again how open software can reach its limits. There is no such thing as a coin with just one side. I continue to work around the problem. I have done this all too often in my 40 years of experience with open source software.

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f41 hinzugefĆ¼gt

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Hi, I can confirm the problem persist on fedora 41, KDE Spin.

However, when deactivating or uninstalling xwaylandvideobridge, the square dissapears.

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I understand your frustration, but please keep in mind that open source software often means itā€™s volunteers working to fix bugs in their free time. Sure, there are some companies that also have people working on OSS, but mostly on those things that suit their bottom-line, so donā€™t count on e.g. Red Hat to fix this any time soon (especially on DE-related stuff I would wager).

There are issues on Thunderbirdā€™s issue tracker that Iā€™m following , that have existed for so long, if those were people they could now legally drink alcohol in the US. :sweat_smile: Iā€™m not even kidding.

My point being, maybe try not to have such a negative outlook over this issue. At least this issue has an extremely simple workaround, which you posted (thanks!).

The usual wisdom applies: if certain bugs, or (lack of) features donā€™t suit you, try a different distro or desktop environment. For me, having installed Fedora Workstation 40 (so with GNOME as DE), this issue only cropped up after also installing KDE (with dnf install @kde-desktop-environment).

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Thank you for the soothing words Youri. In fact, my frustration with this is very limited. My contribution to solving the problem was the documentation. I would have been happy to help further by contributing logs or something similar. Regarding other distributions, I feel very comfortable with Fedora after starting out with SLS, slackware and SuSE. Nevertheless, to this day I still miss IRIX and the fantastic hardware and software support that you could enjoy for a few dollars. Those are just the two sides of the coin. You canā€™t have everything. Since the maintainer(s) of xwaylandvideobridge are not interested in solving the problem, I can live with it. That means Iā€™ll give it a rest here. If at some point someone responsible for the package has the desire and time to stabilize the code a little, I am still available to help.

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