fuzzed desktop in F16

Pete Travis lists at petetravis.com
Fri Feb 17 01:03:19 UTC 2012


On Feb 16, 2012 2:44 PM, "Greg Woods" <woods at ucar.edu> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 14:18 -0700, Pete Travis wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 16, 2012 7:52 AM, "Greg Woods" <woods at ucar.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > I don't know how to describe it better; if I bring up windows mode
> > in
> > > GNOME shell, all the icons and fonts on the desktop are blurry and
> > > pixelated. This only happens after a normal login followed by a
> > suspend
> > > or hibernate.
>
> > Per item 3, try creating a new user to test.
>
> As I mentioned in the original post, I did that. The new user does not
> have the issue.
>
> >
> > I have a feeling this is a suspend issue, albeit a strange one I may
> > not be competent with.  What video hardware and driver is in use on
> > this box?
>
> It is using the nvidia blob. I suppose I could try it with nouveau to
> see if it still occurs, but at some point I will need VDPAU on this box
> which means I will have to get the nvidia blob to work (assuming that
> proves to be where the problem lies). But if it's the driver, why does
> it work for a new user?
>
> Does anyone know which dot directory(s) I would need to clear out in
> order to start Gnome3 with a clean slate?
>
>
> > BTW, you might enjoy extensions.gnome.org
>
> So far I have only installed the gnome-shell-extensions* RPMs, all of
> which came from fedora or fedora-updates repo.
>
> --Greg
>
>
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Sorry Greg, posting while distracted.  I reread, and thought I had caught
my message before it left the outbox.
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