Running FC4 with KDE 3.4.2 This machine is an upgrade from FC3. In many menus, small, translucent vertical colored bars appear over individual letters that are underlined in menus, It first appeared everywhere after the upgrade, including in Kmenu and most programs and even the login screen. Since then, they've disappeared from most of the above, but they still linger in some programs and on the login screen. Unfortunately, I have no idea what changed. For a screen grab, you can look here: http://www.levitjames.com/kdecolorbars.html I logged into Gnome yesterday, and the problem persisted in a couple of programs (Kyum is one for example). I've tried all the items in the desktop configuration, changing styles, widgets, etc. I looked at the xorg conf file for anything obvious. I've posted this over at KDE-Redhat but no one there is getting it, save one individual who got rid of it by playing with his widget settings. Anyone else getting this?
On Friday 29 July 2005 3:21 pm, Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 7/29/05, Claude Jones claude_jones@levitjames.com wrote:
......changed. For a screen grab, you can look here: http://www.levitjames.com/kdecolorbars.html Anyone else getting this?
I saw this once on FC3. I unchecked something in KDE Control Panel, but I can't seem to find it now. It was under keyboard, I think. Play around in there.
That's not it - there's almost nothing to set in keyboard. If you remember what you did, let me know - I find these pretty annoying - in a couple of cases, they have obscured the underlying letter sufficiently that they made the menu item hard to discern...
On 7/29/05, Claude Jones claude_jones@levitjames.com wrote:
Running FC4 with KDE 3.4.2 This machine is an upgrade from FC3. In many menus, small, translucent vertical colored bars appear over individual letters that are underlined in menus, It first appeared everywhere after the upgrade, including in Kmenu and most programs and even the login screen. Since then, they've disappeared from most of the above, but they still linger in some programs and on the login screen. Unfortunately, I have no idea what changed. For a screen grab, you can look here: http://www.levitjames.com/kdecolorbars.html I logged into Gnome yesterday, and the problem persisted in a couple of programs (Kyum is one for example). I've tried all the items in the desktop configuration, changing styles, widgets, etc. I looked at the xorg conf file for anything obvious. I've posted this over at KDE-Redhat but no one there is getting it, save one individual who got rid of it by playing with his widget settings. Anyone else getting this? -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
I saw this once on FC3. I unchecked something in KDE Control Panel, but I can't seem to find it now. It was under keyboard, I think. Play around in there.
Dotan Cohen http://song-lirics.com/sl/artists.php/p Song Lirics
On 7/29/05, Claude Jones claude_jones@levitjames.com wrote:
That's not it - there's almost nothing to set in keyboard. If you remember what you did, let me know - I find these pretty annoying - in a couple of cases, they have obscured the underlying letter sufficiently that they made the menu item hard to discern...
Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
At the time, I was running FC3 in English. On my Hebrew FC4 system I can't find it, but after poking around a bit now, I am _pretty sure_ that is was under (translated) Area Settings and Accessability (the one with the American and German flags).
Dotan http://song-lirics.com/sl/artist/402/pink-floyd-lirics.php Pink Floyd Lirics
On Friday 29 July 2005 11:28 am, Claude Jones wrote:
Running FC4 with KDE 3.4.2 This machine is an upgrade from FC3. In many menus, small, translucent vertical colored bars appear over individual letters that are underlined in menus, It first appeared everywhere after the upgrade, including in Kmenu and most programs and even the login screen. Since then, they've disappeared from most of the above, but they still linger in some programs and on the login screen. Unfortunately, I have no idea what changed. For a screen grab, you can look here: http://www.levitjames.com/kdecolorbars.html I logged into Gnome yesterday, and the problem persisted in a couple of programs (Kyum is one for example). I've tried all the items in the desktop configuration, changing styles, widgets, etc. I looked at the xorg conf file for anything obvious. I've posted this over at KDE-Redhat but no one there is getting it, save one individual who got rid of it by playing with his widget settings. Anyone else getting this? --
I saw this before on another system. I don't recall the solution, but it may have had something to do with the window style or decorations. Make sure the window style and window decorations you select are built against your version of kde. I thought they should be ABI compatable, but I have had problems in the past. Start by changing to a standard style distributed with kde (i.e. bluecurve), if that works, rebuild your style, or find an updated package.
HTH, --rick
Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
On Fri August 5 2005 1:20 pm, Rick Wagner wrote:
On Friday 29 July 2005 11:28 am, Claude Jones wrote:
Running FC4 with KDE 3.4.2 This machine is an upgrade from FC3. In many menus, small, translucent vertical colored bars appear over individual letters that are underlined in menus, It first appeared everywhere after the upgrade, including in Kmenu and most programs and even the login screen. Since then, they've disappeared from most of the above, but they still linger in some programs and on the login screen. Unfortunately, I have no idea what changed. For a screen grab, you can look here: http://www.levitjames.com/kdecolorbars.html I logged into Gnome yesterday, and the problem persisted in a couple of programs (Kyum is one for example). I've tried all the items in the desktop configuration, changing styles, widgets, etc. I looked at the xorg conf file for anything obvious. I've posted this over at KDE-Redhat but no one there is getting it, save one individual who got rid of it by playing with his widget settings. Anyone else getting this? --
I saw this before on another system. I don't recall the solution, but it may have had something to do with the window style or decorations. Make sure the window style and window decorations you select are built against your version of kde. I thought they should be ABI compatable, but I have had problems in the past. Start by changing to a standard style distributed with kde (i.e. bluecurve), if that works, rebuild your style, or find an updated package.
HTH,
Thanks Rick, but I don't think that's it. I've got two FC4 boxes, both of them running the KDE-Redhat packages. One machine was upgraded from FC3 and it's the one with the problem. The other was built up from a fresh install. I've had a few other folks tell me that they had the same problem, and one found a solution by playing with the styles, widgets, and decorations. I've played endlessly with those settings, and many others. In all other respects, my two FC4 boxes are running identically configured desktops, yet one exhibits the issue, and the other doesn't.
On 8/6/05, Claude Jones claude_jones@levitjames.com wrote:
Thanks Rick, but I don't think that's it. I've got two FC4 boxes, both of them running the KDE-Redhat packages. One machine was upgraded from FC3 and it's the one with the problem. The other was built up from a fresh install. I've had a few other folks tell me that they had the same problem, and one found a solution by playing with the styles, widgets, and decorations. I've played endlessly with those settings, and many others. In all other respects, my two FC4 boxes are running identically configured desktops, yet one exhibits the issue, and the other doesn't.
Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
Maybe if you rename the gnome settings folder, create a new user, then copy the new users' gnome settings folder (the gnome equivelent of ~/.kde on kde) to your home directory. If that cleans it up, then you might be able to replace your 'old' files one by one and see which one causes the bars to return.
Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/210/gabriel_peter.php Gabriel, Peter Song Lyrics
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