![]() I barely know what a compositor even is, so don’t trust me 100% on this, but I’ve found them in a couple of places that were saying you can use them for their purpose.īefore you actually run them MAKE SURE to have that hotkey I told you about. Set a hotkey to that and now, next time you launch your game in fullscreen and get the black screen issue, just press that hotkey and everything should be fixed!Īlso, there are two commands that you can use in scripting to pause / resume the compositor. ![]() Go to Settings → Shortcuts → KWin → Suspend Compositing. You can actually make a hotkey to toggle compositing! Now obviously restarting just to play a game is pretty annoying, which is why this was my first solution, but it’s not one I recommend. ![]() (You’ll have to change the setting back and restart again after you’re done playing the game to get back the cool animations) This way once you reboot, your compositor will not be active, so you’ll lose transparency and cool animations, but will be able to play your games correctly. Once I disabled it, fullscreen games started working fine again, so that may be what’s holding you up as well!Ī simple but annoying way to disable the compositor is to go to KDE settings → Display and Monitor → Compositor and tick the box that says “Enable on startup”. Turns out it’s the KDE compositor’s issue. Playing the games in windowed mode still worked.Ī bunch of “solutions” I found hinted at GPU drivers being incorrect in some way, but that wasn’t the issue in my case. When I tried playing games (Dishonored, Terraria, Darkest Dungeon) in fullscreen from Steam, I got a black screen, while still hearing the music / sounds.
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