[Bug 165566] New: Launch bar, menu and desktop become garbled.

[Daniel Suni]

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           Summary: Launch bar, menu and desktop become garbled.
           Product: kde
           Version: 4.0.4
          Platform: SuSE RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs kde org
        ReportedBy: daniel.suni gmail com


Version:           4.0.4 (using KDE 4.0.4)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
Compiler:           Standard openSUSE 11.0 rpms
OS:                Linux

This is a rather annoying bug which occurs seemingly randomly, but frequently. (Frequently means I rarely go a day without seeing it.) The bug in question seems to start as a garbling of the launch bar. From there the problem (sometimes) spreads to the menu and/or the desktop. The garbling typically manifests as large areas turned black, but sometimes the original contents of the garbled area still shows, but with inversed colors (like a photo negative). Other times the garbled area just looks like random memory barfed onto the screen.

I haven't been able to find any surefire way to reproduce the bug, but generally doing things that change something in the launch bar seems to trigger it. Starting OpenOffice seems cause it more frequently than other things, but that's not foolproof either.