locking noctalia shell renders settings invisible

[r3quisitevariety]

Description

locking the screen with noctalia shell and then re-opening the lock renders the settings invisible once I right click on the bar. Clicking the control center icon shows the initial widget (weather, time, wifi, etc), but clicking the settings cog also renders invisible settings.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open noctalia control center
2. Press the power button
3. Press lock, proceed with locking the screen
4. Unlock the screen with your password
5. Right click on the bar, or open control center + settings

Expected Behavior

Settings would show instead of an opaque block.

Screenshots

Environment

• Distro: NixOS unstable
• Compositor: MangoWM
• Noctalia-shell Version: v4.7.3-git
• Noctalia QS Version: 0.0.12
• Monitor resolution: 1920x1080

Additional Information

• All other widgets work fine. Application launcher, date and time, misc plugins, system info, workspaces, etc.

[r3quisitevariety]

I've isolated the bug by testing out other compositors. This bug only happens on MangoWC. Hyprland and Niri remain unaffected.

[r3quisitevariety]

here are the logs that show when I perform the actions in an attempt to open settings:

INFO qml: [20260403-183846]        Network Service started
[aac @ 0x7fdf6cd38980] Could not update timestamps for skipped samples.
[aac @ 0x7fdf569ea400] Could not update timestamps for skipped samples.
  WARN scene: QML QQuickImage at @Widgets/NImageRounded.qml[40:7]: Cannot open: file:///home/requisite/.face
  WARN: Could not load icon "user-desktop?fallback=application-x-executable" at size QSize(19, 19) from request
  WARN: Could not load icon "user-desktop?fallback=application-x-executable" at size QSize(19, 19) from request
  WARN: Could not load icon "user-desktop?fallback=application-x-executable" at size QSize(2, 2) from request
  INFO qml: [20260403-183858]     Compositor LockScreen requested
  INFO qml: [20260403-183858]    LockContext Probing for best PAM service...
  INFO qml: [20260403-183858] LockKeysServic Service started (polling deferred until a consumer registers).
  WARN scene: QML QQuickImage at @Widgets/NImageRounded.qml[40:7]: Cannot open: file:///home/requisite/.face
  WARN scene: QML QQuickImage at @Widgets/NImageRounded.qml[40:7]: Cannot open: file:///home/requisite/.face
  INFO qml: [20260403-183858]    LockContext Detected PAM service: login
  INFO qml: [20260403-183901]    LockContext Starting PAM authentication for user: requisite
quickshell.service.pam.subprocess: Waiting for parent confirmation...
quickshell.service.pam.subprocess: Starting pam session for user "requisite" with config "login" in dir "/etc/pam.d"
quickshell.service.pam.subprocess: Relaying pam message: "Password: " echo: 0 error: 0 responseRequired: 1
  INFO qml: [20260403-183901]    LockContext PAM message: Password:  isError: false responseRequired: true
  INFO qml: [20260403-183901]    LockContext Responding to PAM with password
quickshell.service.pam.subprocess: Got response for request.quickshell.service.pam.subprocess: Authenticated successfully.
  INFO qml: [20260403-183901]    LockContext PAM completed with result: 0
  INFO qml: [20260403-183901]    LockContext Authentication successful
  WARN scene: QML QQuickImage at @Widgets/NImageRounded.qml[40:7]: Cannot open: file:///home/requisite/.face
  WARN: Could not load icon "user-desktop?fallback=application-x-executable" at size QSize(19, 19) from request
  WARN: Could not load icon "user-desktop?fallback=application-x-executable" at size QSize(2, 2) from request
  WARN: Could not load icon "user-desktop?fallback=application-x-executable" at size QSize(19, 19) from request
  WARN: Could not load icon "user-desktop?fallback=application-x-executable" at size QSize(2, 2) from request
  WARN scene: QML QQuickImage at @Widgets/NImageRounded.qml[40:7]: Cannot open: file:///home/requisite/.face
  WARN scene: QML QQuickImage at @Widgets/NImageRounded.qml[40:7]: Cannot open: file:///home/requisite/.face
  INFO qml: [20260403-184005]   SoundService QtMultimedia found - sound playback enabled
  WARN: Could not load icon "application-x-executable?fallback=application-x-executable" at size QSize(2, 2) from request
  WARN: Could not load icon "application-x-executable?fallback=application-x-executable" at size QSize(33, 33) from request
  WARN: Could not load icon "application-x-executable?fallback=application-x-executable" at size QSize(2, 2) from request

[Ly-sec]

Thanks so much for reaching out and sharing this with us!

Right now, our team is entirely focused on building v5. Since the v4 lifecycle has officially come to an end, we are wrapping up old issues and won’t be shipping any further updates or fixes to that codebase.

We are closing this issue for now, but we truly appreciate you taking the time to report it. We aren’t quite ready to open up the v5 tracker for public bug reports or feature requests just yet, but we’ll definitely keep your feedback in mind as we develop the new version!

Cheers!