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Setting "Keep window thumbnails" to always in KDE "breaks minimization"? How?

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Mar 15, 20261869 views
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KDE's Desktop effects (compositing) has a setting for when to keep window thumbnails. It says that setting this to always "breaks minimization". Does anyone know how it breaks minimization?

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Fix for: Setting "Keep window thumbnails" to always in KDE "breaks minimization"? How?

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In order to be able to draw the windows (offscreen) so that it can create the thumbnails, KWin just shows them as minimized, while they aren't really. So, the windows get minimized, as far as the user can tell, but they aren't really. This could pro…

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