Mike Park wrote, On 02/13/2010 07:32 PM: > On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Gene Smith<gds at chartertn.net> wrote: >> For some reason I often see a big yellow border around GVIM when I run >> it. Never noticed it until today and use gvim all the time. I assume > > I've noticed something similar since a week or two ago- not just gvim, > but randomly on any application window (ex. kopete, opera, firefox, > okular, etc.). > >> this is something kde 4.4 is doing since gvim or vim have not been >> updated recently. Have not applied todays updates to see if it affect it. > > I haven't gotten around to filing a bug yet, because I haven't yet > been able to reliably reproduce it, but I'm thinking this is probably > something to do with the compositing effects (I'm on kde4.4.0 from > kde-testing), as I've only seen it since being able to use compositing > for my radeon hd3870. hd4200 here and kde-testing. Have had compositing on for a while and don't think I've seen it until today. You're right, I also saw it on another non-kde app. > >> >> -gene > > --Mike