Unrelieved black popups and message boxes

[Sam Varshavchik]

Temlakos writes:

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> On 02/23/2013 07:23 AM, Lailah wrote:
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>> 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 sessi 
>>>>> on.)
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>
>
> Just tried changing themes, and fine-tuning, going from very-high CPU to high  
> CPU.
>
> No joy. Not only that, but the black popup/new window effect manifested  
> itself almost at once after I made the change.
>
> To clear this, I had to log out, then log back in. Naturally I reset  
> everything to default:
>
> Theme: Oxygen
>
> Graphics effect: Low screen resolution and very high CPU.

I'm getting this on one of my laptops which is running Gnome. I don't think  
this has anything to do with KDE. That laptop has an Intel video chipset.

My other hardware that's running nouveau is not having that particular  
issue. One laptop has a different display issue, but not this one.

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