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