kde - desktop icons leave traces [solved]

BlinkEye · Last edited by BlinkEye on Fri Sep 09, 2005 2:07 pm; edited 1 time in total

this is how it looks like when i'm moving my icons: ftp://blinkeye.ch/gentoo/screen.png
the traces only disappear when refreshing the desktop. i have no idea why this is happening or how to work around it. i had this very same behaviour some month ago with the theme plastik - choosing a different theme worked. i'm open for any ideas.

i use the following versions:

opqdan · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 1:25 pm Post subject:

I get it also, but not nearly as bad, and once I have stopped moving the icon, it goes away. If you are using an ATI card then you may just have to deal with it. I think that there is an option that you can enable in the xorg.conf that might fix it, but it renders slower.

BlinkEye · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 1:42 pm Post subject:

thanks for your answer. well, it can get as slow as it wants to, i don't care. but these traces MUST disappear. i use a NVIDIA 6800GT, so, i may not have to stick with it.
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BlinkEye · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 2:07 pm Post subject:

solved - removing/commenting the extmod SubSection with the "omit xfree86-dga:

nephros · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 2:48 pm Post subject:

BlinkEye · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 3:02 pm Post subject:

mine did not disappear neither after moving the icons. are you using a nvidia or ati card? do you load the dbe module (double buffering extension)?

i just tested it, if i enable the above subsections i do have the stripes/traces again.

what i did too is to not load the dri module - this is mentioned in the nvidia section.
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nephros · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 3:17 pm Post subject:

I am using a nvidia card.
dbe was loaded but unloading it did not remove the problem.

I remember that blender used to have a similar problem once when the GeForce FSAA environment vars were set, however I have those set at 0.

Strange.
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opqdan · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 8:02 pm Post subject:

I use an ATI card with the 8.16.20 (masked ~x86) drivers. I have DRI working fine and do not have any applications which would refresh the desktop.

My trails dissappear as soon as I release the icon. The same thing happens in konqueror. It seems that maybe we are having a realted problem, but I don't think they'll both have the same solution (nothing is ever so simple).

nephros · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 8:28 pm Post subject:

I found this bug at the KDE bugzilla, I think it's at least related to our problem:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68717
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