On 02/23/2013 07:23 AM, Lailah wrote:
El jue, 21-02-2013 a las 19:41 -0500, Temlakos escribió:
> On 02/21/2013 06:49 AM, Lailah wrote:
>
>>
>> El mié, 20-02-2013 a las 09:39 -0500, Temlakos escribió:
>>> Everyone:
>>>
>>> I asked this before under a different heading, and no one answered.
>>>
>>> I get a large volume of e-mail, and very often I interact with a site
>>> that brings up a lot of message boxes, "suggestion boxes" (for
>>> auto-filling from a few keystroke clues), and bringing up apps after
>>> they were minimized to the system tray or the task bar. Now why is it
>>> that, after maybe two hours of operation, those popups come up and are
>>> totally black? The only way to solve the problem, that I have found, is
>>> to shut down. And even then, I can't even see what I'm doing, but
have
>>> to guess where the icons are for executing a controlled shutdown. (I can
>>> always bring up a command-line login screen, log in as root, and then
>>> shut down. But that doesn't seem to solve the problem for the next
session.)
>>>
>>> And when I log back on, everything's fine--until it starts happening
>>> again, after several more window draws.
>>>
>>> What could be causing this? Where do I even look for error logs and the
>>> like?
>>>
>>> I never had this problem in any other version of Fedora. I'm having it
>>> now, and it's driving me nuts.
>>>
>>> For the record, I used the "upgrading from F17 to F18 using yum"
method.
>>> I even used the elaborate script that walks you through rpmnew and
>>> rpmsave reconciliation. And I've kept up with every system update since
>>> then. Actually, the problem began about three kernel updates back.
>>>
>>> Temlakos
>>
>>
>> Which desktop are you using? Did you try with another theme? Did
>> you try another desktop?
>>
>>
>>
>> /Regards,/
>> */Lailah/*
>>
>>
>>
>
> To answer your questions:
>
> 1. KDE
>
> 2. I don't know that KDE has more than one theme. I use a simple
> theme, with an ever-changing desktop background.
>
> 3. I'm a Gnome drop-out. Tried XFCE once; it failed.
>
> Temlakos
It has different themes. Go to System Settings => Applications
Appearance => Styles. There you change your windows theme. Under
Colours you change windows colours. And it you go to Workspace
Appearance => Window Decoration and Desktop Theme, you can change
the look and feel of your plasma desktop.
/Hope this helps,/
*/Lailah/*
PD: If you are a drop out of Gnome, like me, may be you would like
to try Cinnamon and Mate.
Just tried changing themes, and fine-tuning, going from very-high CPU to
high CPU.
No joy. Not only that, but the black popup/new window effect manifested
itself almost at once after I made the change.
To clear this, I had to log out, then log back in. Naturally I reset
everything to default:
Theme: Oxygen
Graphics effect: Low screen resolution and very high CPU.
As it happened, I took in another update from Firefox and Thunderbird.
But the problem affects all applications, and even native KDE functions
like Kickstart, and all notifications.
Temlakos