Bug 157017

The movie showing the "effect": http://andras.kdewebdev.org/other/plasma_issue.mov

I can confirm this bug.  OpenOffice 2.3.1 from debian unstable.  KDE 4.0.0.  Nvidia proprietary driver 169.09 on a Geforce 7900 GS

this has already been reported and there is an open BR for it elsewhere. i can't find it atm to close it as a duplicate though =( it's assigned to Lubos, in any case...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 153637 ***

for me, kde 4.0.66 revision 20080313 this bug is not resolved.

I have the same problem. Kde 4.0.66 rev 18/03/2008.

This bug is actually different than the _NET_WM_ICON, it's not that the icons are not there but that the entire panel starts tweaking out, having rendering glitches, and blinking.

This persists even with the fix for NET_WM_ICON.

Reopening.

this problem still persits with the last svn version 4.0.69...
Don't you think it should be fixed as soon as possible??

I get this bahaviour with firefox and/or xchat open as well - I don't have openoffice installed.

I am using the nvidia binary blob on amd64 (slamd64 12.0)

i'm not seeing this in trunk anymore; i used to get it with oo.o as well as firefox, but.. seems to work nicely now at various taskbar sizes. can anyone else verify/deny for me?

I get a similar effect with OpenOffice and Eclipse, and it still happens with a daily build from project Neon:
Version 4.00.82 (KDE 4.0.82 >= 20080610)

I am using Kubuntu 8.04 with the nvidia binary driver.

This bug has gotten a bit less severe, but is still there.   It used to be that just working in Openoffice would make the plasma panel go bezerk.  Now that no longer happens (4.0.82 from debian, OO 2.4.1, nvidia 169.09)

However if I have OO or Kompozer (XUL based app) open and then mouseover the taskbar it freaks out.

Funny thing I just noticed.  This bug is NOT triggered when you open a document in "read-only" mode in OpenOffice Writer (no text cursor (caret?) visible on the document).
Perhaps the text cursor triggers this.

Further testing confirms this.  Start Openoffice Writer, cursor is blinking on a blank page.  Mouse over the task bar to see corruption.
Then click file-open, now the cursor is blinking in the "File name" field.  Mousing over the panel shows corruption is still evident.
Now click the mouse on the files view in the open dialog (so the cursor disappears) and mouse over the panel.  The corruption is fixed.

Hopefully that will help narrow it down for someone with wicked Xorg skills.

Brilliant find Spalteholz! I can confirm that in Notepad via wine, the corruption occurs with the blinking caret upon starting the program, but when the Print dialog is opened the corruption (and the caret) is gone [it always takes a mouseover to "fix" the panel]. When the Print dialog is closed, the caret is back, and with it the corruption.

[kubuntu 8.04 remix AND kde-nightly; with nvidia proprietary]

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=104822
http://bugs.opencompositing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781

so this is an upstream bug. excellent (for us, not the users of those drivers ;).

Sebastian: feel free to close upstream bugs. they are not useful to us in this BT, especially as we have no effective way of automatically tracking other reports.

yes, bad since I am also one of the nvidia-victims. Grrrr, what a good sample why closed-source drivers just can't work in the long run. Time to buy a intel-card (anyone interested to buy my 7100GS-card? ok, probably the wrong thread for a good business ;)

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I have the same problem here.
I'm using nvidia-drivers 173.14.09.
Everything is fine until i open Openoffice, then plasma become very strange and doesn't render well.
It happens with and without desktop effects and i don't see anything like that when i'm using another window manager.

This bug should be reported to the NVidia developers via http://bugzilla.freedesktop.org, component xorg, product Driver/nvidia (proprietary)

I already filled a bug report some days ago, no reply from no one...

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16541

Well, the Kernel-developers did complain loudly already.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2587
"Developers criticize Nvidia, other holdouts for hindering Linux desktop"

http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2588
“NVIDIA supports Linux, as well as the Linux community and has long been praised for the quality of the NVIDIA Linux driver." (yeah, see e.g. this report and dozend others we have within bko)
“NVIDIA doesn’t expect Linux kernel developers to debug issues in NVIDIA’s kernel module.” (aka stick with our bugs or go Intel or ATI)

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Odd. This bug was gone (on my machine) using 4.0.84 (OpenSuSE 11, Factory repo) but returned with 4.0.85. The nvidia driver in question is 173.14.09.

The fact that it was not present in 4.0.84 sounds like nvidia is not the only culprit (even if probably the major one). Something else is at play as well.

Note though: I only get this using OpenOffice now. I used to get it using firefox as well but not anymore.

Jonas: also taken the finding from comment #13 into account?

btw, for sure there are more components in the stack like the kernel and x.org but since it happens *only* with nvidia and was confirmed by quit a lof of sources (see comment #15) I would be rather careful here to blame them (culprit) for problems they just *can not* solve. Please also do note the official answer from nvidia (comment #22) which results in: *everything* that wents wrong with nvidia-drivers is there problem and nobody else is responsible for it cause "NVIDIA doesn’t expect (Linux kernel) developers to debug issues in NVIDIA’s kernel module."

p.s. that's for sure only my point of view on it as someone who actually would debug if he would be able to.

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To add more data to this nominally resolved bug:

I am running opensuse 11.0, updated kde to 4.0.85, on amd64 chip, with nvidia driver 173.14.09, and openoffice 2.4.1.  When running oowriter, the whole panel (taskbar, icons) and plasma amoeba in the upper-right corner go crazy (become black or weird colors).  It seems the problem is much more mild with oocalc or ooimpress open - mostly just some gray space between open windows in the taskbar becomes black.  In all cases, when I quit OOo things return to normal (I may have to move my mouse over regions of the screen to force them to refresh).

Good luck sorting this out!  It may be an issue w/ kde, OOo, opensuse, nvidia, who knows...

Ok In a debian sid/experimental there is the same bug, I updated my local copy from trunk yesterday. One important thing to note is that the same bug was happening with Firefox2 (Iceweasel 2), but when I updated to Firefox 3 (Iceweasel 3) this "blinks effect" was gone ... any way the bug persists with OO, so maybe ... and just maybe ... it is a bug related with the gtk-KDE integration.

BTW my system:
NVidia GF 7300GS
NVidia driver version: 173.14.09-2 (I think this is the last version)
Kernel : 2.6.25-2-amd64 #1
KDE: Version 4.1.60 (KDE 4.1.60 (KDE 4.2 >= 20080709))
OO version: 2.4.1

@Percy
1) GTK-apps are working fine - try e.g. gedit
2) OO.org and wine don't use GTK
3) since you are on nvidia, comment #22 applies. Welcome to the club :-(

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I've got the same bug when I use openoffice-writer and when I write an email with thunderbird (sigh),here my system:

NVidia FX 5200
distro: openSuse 11.0
NVidia driver version: 173.14.09
Kernel : 2.6.25.9-0.2-pae
KDE: 4.0.4 (KDE 4.0.4 >= 20080505) "release 15.1"
OO version: 2.4.0

The following workaround seems acceptable (for me anyway).  Use qtconfig (qt3 version) to disable the flashing cursor.  I have no problems after the cursor flashing is disabled.

But this workaround has not effect on openoffice or thunderbird! I've got the same problem.

I am using openoffice-kde integration, and it did solve the problem for me.  In Thunderbird, you will probably need to disable the flashing cursor in Gnome control-center.

What is openoffice-kde integration? I can't use Gnome control-center because I'm using kde.

I can confirm Comment #33.
I'm using openoffice with KDE integration, it is something that is enabled when you compile the package to make openoffice uses KDE look.

When i go to qtconfig (version 3) and disable flashing cursor, this problem stop.

In firefox, i just see the problem when some dialog box is selected and the blinking cursor (which i couldn't disable) is on focus.

My configuration:

Gentoo Linux
Video Card: nVidia 6250
Driver: 173.14.09

The workaround resolved the openoffice issues for me (I never had problems w/ Firefox 3.01). Is there going to be an update to properly resolve this? Why is this report "Invalid"? 

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Reopening as it still seems to be happening and I don't see any comment explaining exactly why the bug was closed...

I've tested with nvidia drivers 173.14.12 and the problem continues...

I think this kind of behavior is when an edit area is opened in GTK application. Why I said this is because in eclipse when no file to edit is opened such an issue is not found. Its only found when some file is opened for editing. Could someone confirm on this? 

> I don't see any comment explaining exactly why the bug was closed

the comments about "this is a driver problem" were the explanation.

Now i can confirm: i've installed firefox 3 and now i can disable the flashing cursor. After that all the problems was gone, with firefox and with openoffice. When i enable flashing cursor again, the problems come back.

I'm using KDE 4.1 with nVidia drivers 173.14.12.

Hi, same problem with Openoffice 2.4.1 and KDE 4.1 - corruption of plasma widgets. I'm with Nvidia 7300GT, PIV 3.0GHz, Mandriva 2008.1 and latest kernel . Disabling of blinking cursor in qtconfig dont resolve problem for me. Problem exist with or without using of Compiz - this mean is not related to Compiz for me.

>this mean is not related to Compiz for me. 


Well, yes. The problem is most likely within the proprietary drivers Nvidia still has not fixed. 

Hi, I'm using KDE 4.1.2 with Nvidia drivers (version 169.12) on x64. I still get the problem after having installed openoffice.org-kde and disabled the flashing cursor with both qtconfig-qt3 and qtconfig-qt4...

Is there womething I missed?

Same problem with OpenOffice 3.0 and nVidia drivers 170.80.

This is the way that I avoid this problem:

1) For firefox, I have disabled in gnome keyboard preferences the blinking cursor.

2) For openoffice, I have compiled with KDE integration (it uses kdelibs 3.5.10 in my case) and than I have also disabled the blinking cursor in qtconfig version 3 (in gentoo, it is located at /usr/qt/3/bin/qtconfig).

After that, I have never had any problems related with this bug.

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So, I'm with Mandriva 2009 now and KDE 4.1.2 and can confirm that bug is still exist. Unfortunately I cant stop flashing cursor in OpenOffice 3.0. I try qtconfig in /usr/lib/qt3/bin/qtconfig and also in /usr/lib/qt4/bin/qtconfig (both QT3 and QT4) but after saving of configuration cursor still flash in OpenOffice 3.0 and of course all plasma widgets are going crazy. Please if someone know how to disable flashing cursor I will be very happy to receive hints about it.
Regards,
Valentin

me too , i cannot fix it with the qtconfig
mandriva 2009 kde 4.1.2
http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/6033/ooplgj2.jpg
the probleme is very important, i have not alternative solution than openoffice , mandriva doesnt have packages for koffice. How can i work with it ?
please fix it as soon as possible

thank you 
Dimitri

The problem is as bad as ever, using either the latest NVIDIA 1.77.82 driver or the FOSS Nouveau driver.

That is with KDE4.2 Beta sitting on OpenSuse 11.0

I do realise that this is a driver problem, but, since neither NVIDIA nor Nouveau seem to be able to solve it, what is the future for those of us with these cards. Are we to be excluded from the KDE4 party unless we change over to ATI?

Good news! 

For any fellow long-suffering NVIDIA card users, the new 180.11 beta driver seems finally to have solved the problem - for my system at least.

Good luck with yours, and lets hope this driver moves into repositories asap.

After testing, I can confirm this.  I tried the 180.06 beta driver on my GeForce 6600, and the problem appears to be gone, even with qtconfig blinking cursor set to very high speeds.

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I tested with my Nvidia 7800 GTX,  180.6 beta driver, KDE 4.2 (unstable repository from SuSE)   , Opensuse 11.0 and several GTK dependent applications - including Openoffice, Firefox and VMware workstation 6 (especially with the latter the artefacts on the taskbars appeared in large scale and very frequently) .

All the artefacts seem to be gone with the new beta driver. In addition previous severe problems of Konqueror with displaying transparent or semi-opaque objects (e.g. DIVs) on web pages have disappeared completely.  
 

Resolved? where?
Yeah... resolved for those who have GeForce cards greater than 6000/7000 which is what the beta drivers supports... What about those who have 5000 series¿? I have a Linux Centre full of those cards in 11 workstations... so, what i should do? Use Gnome instead?....

This is not resolved... I posted this problem in Nvidia as well too. Cause those series cards are still far enough usable.... and is stupid just buy new cards (cause i have not the money to do so, and plus still those card works great) cause of this ugly bug.

Well, there is another option for those of us (I'm another) with 5000-series cards -- after all, most of the time, there's no *need* to use the proprietary nvidia drivers. I've disabled desktop effects and gone back to the "nv" drivers instead, so I've now got an artefact-free (if also eyecandy-free) desktop.

Well, yes if you want to disable desktop effects yes... I guess i must wait to nouveau driver... Since there is no response from nvidia devs either.

still a problem in opensuse 11.1 with kde4beta2 and nvidia fx6200

Sebastian

I also updated to 11.1, but the default driver (assuming you have subscribed to the nvidia repository) still has 170 series drivers. After all, 180 drivers are still beta - though they seem to work OK.

If you want to install the beta driver, you can download it from: http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9625/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9625-pkg1.run

Instructions for installing it are at: http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html#2

Hope this helps

I ve just installed this driver :
x11-driver-video-nvidia-current-180.22-1mdv2009.0

and i dont have any more the problem !

Mandriva 2009.0 
KDE 4.1.3 
kernel-desktop-2.6.27.7-1mnb-1-1mnb2

I confirm that with thi new nvidia 180.22 driver it works ok 
opensuse 11.0

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Using OpenSuse 11.1 (x86_64) KDE 4.1.3 "release 4.9". Have updated to the 180.22 nvidia driver from the repository and it has removed the strange graphics behaviour when OOo is in focus. Great!

Driver 180.22 also works well for Opensuse 11.1 (x86_64), KDE 4.2 (from Opensuse "Factory" repository mixed with some rpms from the KDE 4 "Unstable" repository). No artefacts for GTK based applications anymore.    

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