On 02/20/13 23:19, Temlakos wrote: > On 02/20/2013 10:04 AM, fred smith wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 09:39:58AM -0500, Temlakos wrote: >>> Everyone: >>> >>> I asked this before under a different heading, and no one answered. >>> >>> I get a large volume of e-mail, and very often I interact with a site >>> that brings up a lot of message boxes, "suggestion boxes" (for >>> auto-filling from a few keystroke clues), and bringing up apps after >>> they were minimized to the system tray or the task bar. Now why is it >>> that, after maybe two hours of operation, those popups come up and are >>> totally black? The only way to solve the problem, that I have found, is >>> to shut down. And even then, I can't even see what I'm doing, but have >>> to guess where the icons are for executing a controlled shutdown. (I can >>> always bring up a command-line login screen, log in as root, and then >>> shut down. But that doesn't seem to solve the problem for the next session.) >>> >>> And when I log back on, everything's fine--until it starts happening >>> again, after several more window draws. >>> >>> What could be causing this? Where do I even look for error logs and the >>> like? >> I have no clue as to the cause, but doing a shutdown may be >> unnecessarily heavy-handed. >> >> Sounds like some kind of X or Gnome or related toolkit problem. >> You could try CTRL-ALT-BKSP, which should kill X, effectively >> logging you off, then log in again and see if things are again >> working. >> >> if that works there are probably other things to try killing to >> see which one is causing the problem. One other idea would be to switch >> to a text console, to "ps -u <your username>" to find out all the processes >> you own then kill 'em all -- except for the text terminal you're using. >> >> I haven't googled for "gnome troubleshooting", but you might find >> something helpful if you did. >> >> good luck! >> >> Fred >> > > I don't use Gnome. I use KDE. Do you suggest this is a KDE issue, and not an F18 or screen display driver issue? > I think this is the first time you mentioned you're using KDE. And I don't think you've mentioned your video hardware or what driver you're using. However, since you are using KDE, have you tried a different "Desktop Theme"? -- Don't be bullied by the judgmental grammar and spelling police. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
