PaperWM causes wallpaper bleed in games.

Open tyvsmith opened this issue 3 months ago • 0 comments

Describe the bug PaperWM's wallpaper handling creates wallpaper bleed in games. Dark areas of games will allow slight wallpaper visibility. I've noticed this in many games.

As a short term workaround, I have manually specified one workspace with a black background and launch games on that one, so it's not visible. This requires manually setting an image on the others, and limits using default wallpaper. Alternatively, just toggling PaperWM extension on or off resolves the issue.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Set bring wallpaper with distinct shapes
Open a full-screen game with a dark or black screen
Notice wallpaper bleed

Expected behavior There would be no bleed.

Screenshots Unfortunately, this does not show when taking a screenshot, but is visible to the eye.

System information: Please provide system information: Distribution: Bazzite 42.20250827.0 (Silverblue) GNOME Shell: 48.4 Display server: Wayland PaperWM version: 48.0.2 Enabled extensions:

Aug 30 '25 21:08 tyvsmith