Issue: HDMI Audio briefly cuts / drops during specific desktop environment interactions in Fedora KDE Plasma 43, including: Switching workspaces Opening, maximizing, minimizing, and scrolling windows Loading new pages in Firefox Searching for a program in the application launcher menu …

This leads me to wonder if the same may be related using the receiver between the PC and the TV. As well as the fact that connected directly to the TV he only gets 720P while with the receiver he gets 4K implies some interaction there..

HDMI audio cuts when I interact with the desktop (KDE Plasma 6.5, Nvidia GPU)

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glb (Gregory Lee Bartholomew) January 18, 2026, 8:16pm 2

It sounds similar to this problem that was reported earlier:

Does that workaround work for your case?

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HDMI audio cuts when I interact with the desktop (KDE Plasma 6.5, Nvidia GPU)

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