Unrelieved black popups and message boxes

[Lailah]

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.



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