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grozin n00b
Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 72 Location: Novosibirsk, Russia
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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 3:11 am Post subject: Black drop-down menus after yesterdays upgrade |
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Yesterday I upgraded 3 computers (2 ~x86 and 1 ~amd64), and on all of them I see an annoying effect. After starting kde by startx, everything works normally for some unpredictable time (from a few minutes to an hour or so). Then, after no particular action, suddenly, all pull-down menus become just black rectangles (I saw it with firefox and konsole); the kde panel becomes black; all menus and tips prom the panel become black rectangles. If I blindly click on them, they work.
It's very annoying to kill and restart X every 5 minutes. I'm trying to find which upgrade resulted in this behaviour. I've just reverted xf86-video-intel to 2.21.0 and media-libs/mesa to 9.0.1 (which I had before the yesterday's upgrade). No effect, still black rectangles. What else can cause this? upgrades of qt-core and qt-gui? But this bad behaviour also happens for firefox. I don't see any other graphics-related packages in the yesterday's update. But before that everything was normal. _________________ Andrey Grozin |
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nlsa8z6zoz7lyih3ap Guru
Joined: 25 Sep 2007 Posts: 388 Location: Canada
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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 3:34 am Post subject: |
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Have you tried using system settings for kde to experiment with the desktop settings.. In the general tab you could try disabling desktop effects.
In the advanced tab, there are lots of things to try. |
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grozin n00b
Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 72 Location: Novosibirsk, Russia
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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 3:39 am Post subject: |
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nlsa8z6zoz7lyih3ap wrote: | Have you tried using system settings for kde to experiment with the desktop settings.. In the general tab you could try disabling desktop effects.
In the advanced tab, there are lots of things to try. |
But before yesterday kde worked fine (on all 3 computers) with desktop effects enabled. _________________ Andrey Grozin |
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grozin n00b
Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 72 Location: Novosibirsk, Russia
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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 3:52 am Post subject: |
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Have just discovered that not only menus and tooltips are completely black. All new windows created in this regime are black.
Trying to recompile all kde, just out of frustration. _________________ Andrey Grozin |
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grozin n00b
Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 72 Location: Novosibirsk, Russia
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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:39 am Post subject: |
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OK, re-emerging all kde seems to fix this. Probably, I had to re-compile kwin after recent qt-core and qt-gui changes. _________________ Andrey Grozin |
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grozin n00b
Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 72 Location: Novosibirsk, Russia
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 4:46 am Post subject: |
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No. Again black menus. It just tool a bit longer. Can I return my computers to a usable state somehow? _________________ Andrey Grozin |
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Martux Veteran
Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 1917
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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Did you set eselect qtgraphicsystem to raster? Also check systemsettings > desktop effects > advanced. This setting can get borked through updates easily. _________________ "Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."
Albert Einstein
"The road to success is always under construction" |
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grozin n00b
Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 72 Location: Novosibirsk, Russia
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 9:59 am Post subject: |
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Martux wrote: | Did you set eselect qtgraphicsystem to raster? |
Yes
Martux wrote: | Also check systemsettings > desktop effects > advanced. This setting can get borked through updates easily. |
Don't see anything unusual here.
I have completely switched off desktop effects. Looks a bit like returning to 90's, but at least it works. A pity. _________________ Andrey Grozin |
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Martux Veteran
Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 1917
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm, weird. Other than checking eselect opengl doesn't come to my mind then.
I had to redo KDE configuration from time to time because of some weird stuff... Checking with a new .kde4 directory is worth a shot. _________________ "Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."
Albert Einstein
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666threesixes666 Veteran
Joined: 31 May 2011 Posts: 1248 Location: 42.68n 85.41w
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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i put xfce4 on my machine as rescue mode from gnome3 upgrade problems.... i know its not an ideal solution, but its a temporary fall back to make the machine usable again until further progress is made. |
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