Empty boxes under KDE popup windows

[Orion Poplawski]

Every once in a while with various hardware I see empty boxes left under where 
a KDE popup window appeared and went away and the app doesn't redraw right 
away.  Is there a general bug filed somewhere for this?  What is responsible? 
  Individual video drivers?

Thanks!

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Orion Poplawski
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[Rex Dieter]

On May 11, 2010, at 3:58 PM, Orion Poplawski <orion(a)cora.nwra.com&gt;  
wrote:

>  Every once in a while with various hardware I see empty boxes left  
>  under where
>  a KDE popup window appeared and went away and the app doesn't redraw  
>  right
>  away.  Is there a general bug filed somewhere for this?  What is  
>  responsible?
>   Individual video drivers? 
Video driver generally

Rex

[Dave Ulrick]

On Tue, 11 May 2010, Rex Dieter wrote:

>  On May 11, 2010, at 3:58 PM, Orion Poplawski <orion(a)cora.nwra.com&gt;
>  wrote:
>
> > Every once in a while with various hardware I see empty boxes left 
> > under where a KDE popup window appeared and went away and the app 
> > doesn't redraw right away.  Is there a general bug filed somewhere for 
> > this?  What is responsible?
> >  Individual video drivers?
>
>  Video driver generally 
Judging by what I've seen, more than one video driver seems to be 
afflicted by this problem.  I see it on a PC that uses the X.Org Intel 
driver as well as another PC that uses the binary-blob NVidia driver.  Has 
anyone noticed this problem with any other video drivers?

In my experience, the empty box is invariably left in the space that had 
momentarily displayed a tooltip for one of the widgets in a Plasma panel. 
I'll happily disable those tooltips if/when an option is provided to do 
so.  In the meantime, I frequently use the Show Desktop widget to refresh 
my desktop and clean up the empty boxes.

Dave
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Dave Ulrick
Email: d-ulrick(a)comcast.net

[Dave Ulrick]

On Wed, 12 May 2010, Dave Ulrick wrote:

>  I'll happily disable those tooltips if/when an option is provided
> to do
>  so. 
Looks like my wish is about to come true.  Apparently a patch to add an 
option for turning off Plasma tooltips was committed to the KDE SVN on May 
7th:

http://websvn.kde.org/?revision=1123805&view=revision

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211593

Dave
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Dave Ulrick
Email: d-ulrick(a)comcast.net

[Orion Poplawski]

On 05/11/2010 04:52 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
>  On May 11, 2010, at 3:58 PM, Orion Poplawski<orion(a)cora.nwra.com>
>  wrote:
>
> > Every once in a while with various hardware I see empty boxes left
> > under where
> > a KDE popup window appeared and went away and the app doesn't redraw
> > right
> > away.  Is there a general bug filed somewhere for this?  What is
> > responsible?
> >   Individual video drivers?
>
>  Video driver generally
>
>  Rex 
I'd be happy to file video driver bugs if I knew a little more about what is 
going awry in these cases.  Is there a term that would describe  this problem?

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Orion Poplawski
Technical Manager                     303-415-9701 x222
NWRA/CoRA Division                    FAX: [phone]
3380 Mitchell Lane                  orion(a)cora.nwra.com
Boulder, CO 80301              http://www.cora.nwra.com