corrupted minute/hour hands on any analog clock

[Jerome Yuzyk]

On Thursday, December 30, 2010 11:57:14 pm Duncan <1i5t5.duncan at cox.net> 
wrote:
> Jerome Yuzyk posted on Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:37:23 -0700 as excerpted:
> > On Thursday, December 30, 2010 04:08:49 pm Duncan
> > <1i5t5.duncan at cox.net>
> > 
> > wrote:
> >> Jerome Yuzyk posted on Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:11:37 -0700 as excerpted:
> >> > Kde 3.5.3 on Fedora 13
> >> > 
> >> > Can anyone explain why the minute/hour hands on any analog clock I
> >> > try, no matter what theme, inevitably get corrupted. Mostly the
> 
> > My video card is a nVidia 8400GS; I use the nouveau driver.
> > 
> > Along with the clock hands, various icons on the Task Manager get the
> > same treatment - like they've been every-other-line sampled. Pretty
> > much only KDE icons - never SeaMonkey or Firefox or VMWare, but
> > almost always Kopete, KAlarm, Konqueror and KMail icons. Never
> > Konsole though.
> 
> A bit more info.  I've seen nVidia hardware folks mention it before, I
> believe.  Here, the clock hands simply disappear, transparent to
> wallpaper, but the nVidia graphics folks seem to have it corrupt.
> 
> I haven't seen the icon issues you mention, but have seen others mention
> them, too.  There were certain known issues with the kde icon cache in
> early 4.5, fixed to some extent but not entirely in 4.5.3 I believe, but
> fixed more/better in 4.5.4.  As you mention that you're running 4.5.3,
> you might wish to upgrade to 4.5.4 (FWIW, 4.x.y releases, where only
> the y increases, are string-frozen bug-fix only, so shouldn't cause
> additional issues but do fix bugs)  and see if that fixes the icon
> issues, but I don't believe it'll fix the clock, as it didn't here, and
> I think the two are separate issues -- unless perhaps you're seeing a
> graphics bug in the icons too, in addition to the kde bug there was in
> the icon cache that 4.5.4 was supposed to have fixed.  But that it's
> only happening to the kde icons is a big hint to me that it's that kde
> bug, so 4.5.4 should fix it, I think.


Oddly, today I did a big bunch of work with KGrab and was waiting for the 
inevitable problem but it didn't happen. However, I do have 4.5.4 queued to 
apply, so there may be some hope.

I get icon glitchies all over - on the panel, hovering over panel items, 
the Google icon in the Konqueror toolbar, the clock hands. I've turned off 
all compositing and effects from way back.

Thanks for this.
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