Unrelieved black popups and message boxes

[Temlakos]

On 03/18/2013 09:41 AM, Lailah wrote:
>
> El sáb, 23-02-2013 a las 09:17 -0500, Temlakos escribió:
>> On 02/23/2013 07:23 AM, Lailah wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> As it happened, I took in another update from Firefox and 
>> Thunderbird. But the problem affects all applications, and even 
>> native KDE functions like Kickstart, and all notifications.
>>
>> Temlakos
>
>
> Hello!
>
>             Sorry for my lateness but I was making some experiments 
> with KDE.  It happens to me too, after 2 or 3 hours of use.  Not only 
> pop ups pr message boxes are black, but every window.  Plasma and 
> wallpaper are fine.
> I'm using KDE 4.9,  Fedora 18 64-bits,  and as somebody say, may be it 
> is related with Intel chipset, because my netbook is an Intel one.
>
> Is there a bug filed for this issue?
>
>
> /Cheers, thanks/
> */Lailah/*
>
>
>

I wouldn't know where to file the bug, or against what.

Temlakos
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