Bug 255245 - Window previews are broken on my computer
Summary: Window previews are broken on my computer
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 243181
Alias: None
Product: plasma4
Classification: Plasma
Component: widget-taskbar (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2010-10-25 19:35 UTC by SZÉKELYI Szabolcs
Modified: 2011-03-13 09:14 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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2010-10-25 19:35 UTC, SZÉKELYI Szabolcs 		Details
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Description SZÉKELYI Szabolcs 2010-10-25 19:35:13 UTC 
Created attachment 52860 [details]
A screenshot showing a blank gray window preview with some strange noise

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.1) 
OS:                Linux

Window previews in the Task Bar mostly display only gray background and some noise sometimes. I'm also experiencing problems with other KDE applications like some parts of the screen are not reapinted correctly. I'm not sure whether it's a KDE-related bug, maybe my video card driver is broken? Please let me know what you think. See the attached screenshot of the problem.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 SZÉKELYI Szabolcs 2010-10-25 19:39:11 UTC 
Some more clarification. Window previews are always gray, the noise is that appears only in the case of random windows. This far I think I'm alone with this problem, since I saw this working correctly with others.
Comment 2 PabloCremades 2011-02-04 16:37:16 UTC 
Same problem. I have an HP Pavilion dv6920 and I have recently installed Kubuntu 10.10. After getting the latest updates I can no longer see the thumbnails. I just see a gray box.
Comment 3 Dario Andres 2011-03-13 02:40:29 UTC 
[Comment from a bug triager]
CCing KWin developers
Comment 4 Martin Flöser 2011-03-13 09:14:59 UTC 
This is a driver bug. In the duplicate report there are ways described to circumvent the problem. Starting from 4.6.0 there is a GUI option to disable the feature triggering the driver bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 243181 ***