Bug 247998

Summary: Regression: Window thumbnails too bright on Intel video
Product: [Plasma] kwin Reporter: Alan Moore <me>
Component: compositingAssignee: KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
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Attachments: Screenshot of thumbnails from the "show windows" effect

Description Alan Moore 2010-08-15 22:40:06 UTC
Created attachment 50588 [details]
Screenshot of thumbnails from the "show windows" effect

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.0) 
OS:                Linux

Using KDE 4.5.0 on Kubuntu Lucid. 
Video chipset: VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)

Since upgrading to KDE 4.5.0 from 4.4.5, any time thumbnails are used (show windows, taskbar tooltips, etc) they appear excessively bright, distorting the colors and making them ugly and hard to identify.  Most windows just appear as a white block with a few scattered black pixels.

I only see this on my system with the Intel chipset; ATI and Nvidia systems seem fine.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Martin Flöser 2010-08-15 22:54:46 UTC
please add your "glxinfo | grep -i opengl" to the duplicate bug report, so that we can ship an update to the blacklist in 4.5.1

In my blogpost http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2010/07/blacklisting-drivers-for-some-kwin-effects/ you can find some information on how to fix this problem by manually adding your driver to the blacklist.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 243181 ***
Comment 2 Alan Moore 2010-08-16 04:45:08 UTC
$ glxinfo | grep -i opengl
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset GEM 20091221 2009Q4 x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
OpenGL extensions: