Unrelieved black popups and message boxes

[Temlakos]

On 02/21/2013 06:49 AM, Lailah wrote:
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> 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
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> Which desktop are you using?  Did you try with another theme?  Did you 
> try another desktop?
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> /Regards,/
> */Lailah/*
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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
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