Bug 228516 - Icon tooltips currupt distant windows (screenshot included)
Summary: Icon tooltips currupt distant windows (screenshot included)
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 177959
Alias: None
Product: kde
Classification: I don't know
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list
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Reported: 2010-02-25 19:49 UTC by pei
Modified: 2010-02-26 18:41 UTC (History)
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Description pei 2010-02-25 19:49:00 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.4.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    openSUSE RPMs

When moving the mouse over an icon, the appearing tooltip (not sure if this is the correct term) sometimes destoys a rectangular area somewhere else on the screen.
When the tooltip disappears, the area behind it gets correctly restored, but the
corrupted region stays broken.
Screenshot: http://freenet-homepage.de/pei/KDE4-paintbug.png

I've got a Matrox G550 card, but never noticed similar issues before (mostly using KDE 3.5).
Comment 1 Dario Andres 2010-02-26 03:06:58 UTC 
This is an old, known, X.org server issue: bug 177959 (it also contains a workaround)
Regards

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 177959 ***
Comment 2 pei 2010-02-26 08:39:19 UTC 
Thanks, for some reason I did not find all the duplicates.
I have all effects (including Compositing) disabled in the
desktop settings, but I don't have Composite disabled in
/etc/X11/xorg.conf so far. I'll try if that helps.

Is there a way to disable the tooltips themselves?
Usually they don't display any extra information but tend
to cover menu items which can be very annoying.
Comment 3 Dario Andres 2010-02-26 12:36:17 UTC 
As far as I know, there isn't a way to disable Plasma tooltips. Sorry
Comment 4 pei 2010-02-26 18:41:51 UTC 
After having worked 1 day with new settings it seems that adding

Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

to /etc/X11/xorg.con really has helped. Thanks again!