plasma corruption

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 16 July 2008, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Tuesday 15 July 2008, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> >> that bothers me, especially as I can't think why plasma would have such
> >> issues.
> >
> > use of argb visuals, and drivers and toolkits that suck at working in
> > such an environment.
>
> I meant, why would it be fine with Qt/Mozilla apps but not others? That
> implies there is something special about these apps (or perhaps their
> window icons since I don't know what else plasma would be dealing with).
> Or do you mean that the gtk app running alongside an argb window does
> Bad Things?

that's one of the variables, yes. toolkits + drivers == different behaviours.

> > i'd be happy to see a work around in this case. i'll be pleasantly
> > surprised to see one emerge. but in this case it really seems to be
> > driver dependant.
>
> Oh, wouldn't surprise me, nvidia's drivers in general seem to be crap
> ;-). I'd really like to know, given that this falls under very and
> consistently reproducible, if anyone else can reproduce it. The basic
> variables are f9-i686 + nvidia blob drivers.

i can reproduce it on my nvidia system from time to time. it used to be a lot 
worse, too, with firefox showing the behaviour everytime i'd type into its 
location bar!

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