| Summary: | Task Manager gets screwed up when Composing from Thunderbird | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] plasma4 | Reporter: | Marcelo Barbudas <nostef> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED UPSTREAM | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | aleksis.jauntevs, aseigo, astaley, berni, beschindler, courchea, kaleb.pederson, mail, mateusz, mike, plorenz, s.dem, solanoalves, vjay, woutervr |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Debian testing | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Screenshot of the corrupted task manager
Screenshot of the expected task manager |
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Description
Marcelo Barbudas
2008-07-25 13:26:42 UTC
Can confirm that, with latest Ubuntu Intrepid development packages (KDE 4.1.0 and Thunderbird 2.0.0.16). The panel goes havoc, you can see the background where the clock used to be and so on. Also output of konsole gets totally unreadable. Switching to another konsole tab fixes it only for a couple of seconds before it reappears. I can't recall seeing it on my laptop (also Ubuntu Intrepid) which has an Intel graphic chipset, but I see it all the time on the desktop (NVIDIA 7series, both with 173 and 177 driver version). Desktop Effects are enabled on both. I can confirm the behaviour Bernhard (the other one ;-) described. I'm using KDE 4.1 on Gentoo, Thunderbird 2.0.0.16, on a NVIDIA G71 (7950 GT), my current driver is 173.14.12 Desktop effects are enabled. The problem also occurs with desktop effects disabled, but then the panel doesn't get translucent (which is somewhat expected), but there is still flickering, the clock vanishes, etc. I also have an Nvidia 7600 GT card. Another datapoint, it does not happen when Thunderbird 3a2 (aka Shredder) is running with an open compositing window, only with Thunderbird 2. I tried to tie it to the graphic libraries involved by installing and running Firefox 2 (which has, to my knowledge, the same graphic subsystem), but the bug did not reappear. OTOH the problem only appears in a compositing window which is not available in Firefox. i can confirm this as well, but i can add this happends only when writing the subject of the new mail, this changes the text on the task bar and gets screwd up. using kde 4.1 on Archlinux and Nvidia 7700 with 177.68 driver (beta) Can't confirm, changing the subject line breaks a lot more visible things, but my graphic gets screwed as long as the compositing window is running (even when replying -> not changing the subject at all). Also it's not just the taskbar, a lot of things (composite?) screw up. Especially bad is running mtr (continous output) in konsole, it becomes totally unreadable within seconds. I can conform this also running KUbunto 8.04 (updated to kde 4.1.1) and running Thuunderbird 2.0.0.16. This is on a HP NW9440 laptop with an Nvidia Quadro FX 1500M I dist-upgraded my system to KDE 4.1. In my case the bug seems to have dissipated. @Marcelo: can't confirm, I still see the problem in the most current Ubuntu Intrepid KDE 4.1.1 packages with Nvidia 177.70 drivers. Dear developers, are the symptoms of this bug unclear somewhere? I could record a small video that shows the effects if you can't reproduce it. The same happens when using Zend Studio for Eclipse (but not Eclipse itself). I also have a nvidia card, gf 7300GT. Exactly the same KDE installation (disk plugged into another computer) works fine on 8600GT card. Drivers version is 177.70, KDE version is 4.1.1. Was also able to reproduce using SeaMonkey-Mozilla IRC application. Maybe we should open a bug on Mozilla side... I can confirm that bug as well (I actually just wanted to report it) I have created a few pictures with my camera, but I think there are enough people with this problem so I don't need to prove... :) Just updated my Kubuntu to KDE 4.1.2 and latest envy-ng nvidia drivers (173.14.12) and this problem still shows up... I believe that this effects many non-Qt based applications. I see the same behaviors when working with OpenOffice.org, Eclipse and Gimp. As soon as I return to a standard KDE/Qt application (and do something that forces a taskbar redraw) it stays correct until I do something in one of the other apps. I'll attach a couple example images -- one with the corrupted task manager and one as expected. Created attachment 27807 [details]
Screenshot of the corrupted task manager
Created attachment 27808 [details]
Screenshot of the expected task manager
*** Bug 170556 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 172369 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 172987 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I can also confirm this with an NVIDIA 6600 and it's a driver problem with the binary "NVIDIA" driver as it doesn't occur when using the "nv" driver. This occurs for me with desktop effects on or off, using OpenGL or XRender and with GTK-QT-Engine enabled or disabled and can be consistently seen to happen when Eclipse is the foreground window. What's the procedure for forwarding these sort of bugs to NVIDIA? Can this bug now be marked as confirmed? A temporary workaround for others involves using the "nv" driver. I'll see if I can play with "nvidia" driver settings later and see if anything helps this to disappear. Emailed linux-bugs@nvidia.com with a link to this bug and offering to help debug this problem. *** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. *** From Roland Hui at NVIDIA: Mike, Thanks for bringing this to our attention. This looks like an issue that we're already tracking as bug 470239. We're working on fixing it. Thanks, Roland Updated to nvidia 177.82 yesterday and I must say that it's almost worst. Especially for terminal windows. Corruption is very bad. Running Kubuntu 8.04 updated to 8.10. see comment #23 *** Bug 173724 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |